Sebastian Jobs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6693570 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sebastian Jobs |
| PRENOMES | Sebastian |
| SOBRENOME | Jobs |
| ASSINATURA | JOBS S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8340-6684 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Other “Faithful Servant”
Gabriel's failed insurrection conspiracy of 1800 is one of the most widely studied slave uprisings in U.S. history. When analyzing slave resistance, historians often assume an automatic sense of freedom-driven solidarity among enslaved people, but the documents we have about Gabriel and his co-conspirators show that trust played an important role in setting up the rebellion. This article focuses on trust as a performance that enabled enslaved peo…
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
Uncertain knowledge
Rumors have often been neglected as a source of historical research. This paper will introduce the idea of ‘uncertain knowledge’ as a means to understand how people in the past used a variety of different sources to make sense of their environment – including hearsay, vague stories, or gossip. Therefore, in order to capture the productivity of uncertainty for innovation and change, this paper suggests that knowledge be appreciated as a dynamic pr…
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…
Agents of Transculturation. Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens
Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic relied on the mediating agency of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and la…
Uncertain knowledge
Rumors have often been neglected as a source of historical research. This paper will introduce the idea of ‘uncertain knowledge’ as a means to understand how people in the past used a variety of different sources to make sense of their environment – including hearsay, vague stories, or gossip. Therefore, in order to capture the productivity of uncertainty for innovation and change, this paper suggests that knowledge be appreciated as a dynamic pr…
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…
Agents of Transculturation. Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens
Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic relied on the mediating agency of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and la…
Uncertain knowledge
Rumors have often been neglected as a source of historical research. This paper will introduce the idea of ‘uncertain knowledge’ as a means to understand how people in the past used a variety of different sources to make sense of their environment – including hearsay, vague stories, or gossip. Therefore, in order to capture the productivity of uncertainty for innovation and change, this paper suggests that knowledge be appreciated as a dynamic pr…
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…
The Other “Faithful Servant”
Gabriel's failed insurrection conspiracy of 1800 is one of the most widely studied slave uprisings in U.S. history. When analyzing slave resistance, historians often assume an automatic sense of freedom-driven solidarity among enslaved people, but the documents we have about Gabriel and his co-conspirators show that trust played an important role in setting up the rebellion. This article focuses on trust as a performance that enabled enslaved peo…
History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras)