Sebastian Job
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1708273 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sebastian Job |
| PRENOMES | Sebastian |
| SOBRENOME | Job |
| ASSINATURA | JOB S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Importance of Being Uncertain―or What I Learned From Writing History With Rumors
Rumors are a challenging kind of archival material for historical research. They provide vague, unreliable and obscure information—far from the reliable source material required to write history “as it really happened.” In this article I will, however, show how the uncertainty that is characteristic for rumors opens up a chance to understand knowledge-in-the making. By looking at reports of slave revolts in the U.S. South I try to find out how pe…
Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures. The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Unsicheres Wissen und Gewalt
For historians rumors and gossip can be more than just a nuisance, since they provide a glimpse of how historical actors tried to make sense of their environment on an everyday basis. During an alleged slave revolt in Camden, SC (1816) the dissemination of such ‘uncertain knowledge’ raised fears among the white population, but also opened up rooms-tomaneuver for slaves. On the one hand, court trials and interrogations were attempts to produce cla…
The Rise of a Global God-Image? Spiritual internationalists, the international left and the idea of human progress
For a period that endured so long it came to seem coextensive with Western modernity, durable barriers stood between those who sought political liberation and those who sought spiritual liberation. We are now emerging from that period. The barriers never operated in the same way or to the same extent in all countries, for much the same reason that ‘secularism’ differed in its effective meaning from country to country. But even in secularism's Ang…
Globalising Russia? The neoliberal/ nationalist two-step and the Russification of the West
This paper argues that the major ideological dynamic of the post-cold war era is the conflictive complicity of neoliberalism and various authoritarian and racist nationalisms. This is nowhere more apparent than in post-Soviet Russia. Indeed, far from being 'exceptional', contemporary Russia actually provides an exemplary instance of where the neoliberal road to the market is really taking a great number of countries - in the first instance, the d…
Globalising Russia? The neoliberal/ nationalist two-step and the Russification of the West
This paper argues that the major ideological dynamic of the post-cold war era is the conflictive complicity of neoliberalism and various authoritarian and racist nationalisms. This is nowhere more apparent than in post-Soviet Russia. Indeed, far from being 'exceptional', contemporary Russia actually provides an exemplary instance of where the neoliberal road to the market is really taking a great number of countries - in the first instance, the d…
The Importance of Being Uncertain―or What I Learned From Writing History With Rumors
Rumors are a challenging kind of archival material for historical research. They provide vague, unreliable and obscure information—far from the reliable source material required to write history “as it really happened.” In this article I will, however, show how the uncertainty that is characteristic for rumors opens up a chance to understand knowledge-in-the making. By looking at reports of slave revolts in the U.S. South I try to find out how pe…
Globalising Russia? The neoliberal/ nationalist two-step and the Russification of the West
This paper argues that the major ideological dynamic of the post-cold war era is the conflictive complicity of neoliberalism and various authoritarian and racist nationalisms. This is nowhere more apparent than in post-Soviet Russia. Indeed, far from being 'exceptional', contemporary Russia actually provides an exemplary instance of where the neoliberal road to the market is really taking a great number of countries - in the first instance, the d…
The Rise of a Global God-Image? Spiritual internationalists, the international left and the idea of human progress
For a period that endured so long it came to seem coextensive with Western modernity, durable barriers stood between those who sought political liberation and those who sought spiritual liberation. We are now emerging from that period. The barriers never operated in the same way or to the same extent in all countries, for much the same reason that ‘secularism’ differed in its effective meaning from country to country. But even in secularism's Ang…
Unsicheres Wissen und Gewalt
For historians rumors and gossip can be more than just a nuisance, since they provide a glimpse of how historical actors tried to make sense of their environment on an everyday basis. During an alleged slave revolt in Camden, SC (1816) the dissemination of such ‘uncertain knowledge’ raised fears among the white population, but also opened up rooms-tomaneuver for slaves. On the one hand, court trials and interrogations were attempts to produce cla…
Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures. The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
The Importance of Being Uncertain―or What I Learned From Writing History With Rumors
Rumors are a challenging kind of archival material for historical research. They provide vague, unreliable and obscure information—far from the reliable source material required to write history “as it really happened.” In this article I will, however, show how the uncertainty that is characteristic for rumors opens up a chance to understand knowledge-in-the making. By looking at reports of slave revolts in the U.S. South I try to find out how pe…
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