Comparing and Change
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag |
| ISBN-13 | 9783839472668 |
| Total publications | 14 |
| Coverage period | 2024 - 2024 |
| Language | EN |
Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, representation, and models. They delve into how comparing influences knowledge production, but also focus on persisting orders of knowledge. This collection centers on the role of models and modeling in relation to practices of comparing, thus highlighting the representational and operational force of comparing as a way to form and organize reality.
Making Use of Models
Jacob Bohé, Charlotte Feidicker, Angela Gutierrez, Frederic Kunkel, Laura Maria Niewöhner, Malte Wittmaack shed light on the question of how models and modeling could be applied to historical research. Iná three sections, different research fields in History will be explored concerning this question, i.e., economic history, situations of cultural contact, denazification, and the use of models in Digital Humanities. In every section, two authors d…
A Contingency-sensitive Theory of Global Change
Angelika Epple outlines why the theory of history should do without historical telos and argues that historical conceptions should understand the intentionality of human action as the starting point for historical change. Epple indicates that practice theory can integrate the inconsistencies between the intentionality of human action and the contingency of historical events. Such an approach, Epple argues, has the potential to lead to a new under…
Stadial Change and the Emergence of Comparative Studies in German-Speaking Europe Around 1870-1900
World Travel Literature
Rethinking the Model and Modeling
In this paper, modeling is used as a historiographic technique to fill gaps in historical semantics and to describe historical change. The aim is to understand how the treatise "De imitatione Christi", written by Thomas a Kempis, was received. In order to reconstruct the model that mediated between the general whole of the underlying concept and the individual case of action, the recourse to practices of comparing is instructive. Changes in the c…
World Political Change
In this chapter, Mathias Albert and Thomas Müller explore how actors make sense of world political change. It under-stands change as a significant difference over time and emphasises the importance of narratives: It is through narratives that actors highlight differences between the past, present and future and imbue these differences with political significance. The chapter distinguishes three storytelling practices through which actors craft su…
Comparing and Change
Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, representation, and models. They delve into how comparing influences knowledge production, but also focus on persisting orders of knowledge. This collection …
Grounds for Comparison
Modeling, Ordering, Comparing
Schwandt S. Modeling, Ordering, Comparing. Mediating Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Evidence in History. In: Flüchter A, Kramer K, Mertens R, Schwandt S, eds. Comparing and Change. Orders, Models, Perceptions . Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag; 2024: 35-48.
Authors
"Models of the World"—"Talking about Change"?
Modeling Diversity, Comparability, and Change
“Models of the World”—“Talking about Change”?
This article describes concepts of change and the relation between change, models, and practices of comparing in premodern times: how did people conceptualize change if they thought of the world and nature as not controllable and regulable?I will analyze two kinds of models and how change was conceptualized in them: first, I look into models that explained the world and its history (Four Empires of Daniel) or the Rise and Fall of Empires (Giovann…
Modeling and Change
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Making Use of Models
Jacob Bohé, Charlotte Feidicker, Angela Gutierrez, Frederic Kunkel, Laura Maria Niewöhner, Malte Wittmaack shed light on the question of how models and modeling could be applied to historical research. Iná three sections, different research fields in History will be explored concerning this question, i.e., economic history, situations of cultural contact, denazification, and the use of models in Digital Humanities. In every section, two authors d…
A Contingency-sensitive Theory of Global Change
Angelika Epple outlines why the theory of history should do without historical telos and argues that historical conceptions should understand the intentionality of human action as the starting point for historical change. Epple indicates that practice theory can integrate the inconsistencies between the intentionality of human action and the contingency of historical events. Such an approach, Epple argues, has the potential to lead to a new under…
Stadial Change and the Emergence of Comparative Studies in German-Speaking Europe Around 1870-1900
World Travel Literature
Rethinking the Model and Modeling
In this paper, modeling is used as a historiographic technique to fill gaps in historical semantics and to describe historical change. The aim is to understand how the treatise "De imitatione Christi", written by Thomas a Kempis, was received. In order to reconstruct the model that mediated between the general whole of the underlying concept and the individual case of action, the recourse to practices of comparing is instructive. Changes in the c…
World Political Change
In this chapter, Mathias Albert and Thomas Müller explore how actors make sense of world political change. It under-stands change as a significant difference over time and emphasises the importance of narratives: It is through narratives that actors highlight differences between the past, present and future and imbue these differences with political significance. The chapter distinguishes three storytelling practices through which actors craft su…
Comparing and Change
Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, representation, and models. They delve into how comparing influences knowledge production, but also focus on persisting orders of knowledge. This collection …
Grounds for Comparison
Modeling, Ordering, Comparing
Schwandt S. Modeling, Ordering, Comparing. Mediating Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Evidence in History. In: Flüchter A, Kramer K, Mertens R, Schwandt S, eds. Comparing and Change. Orders, Models, Perceptions . Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag; 2024: 35-48.
Authors
"Models of the World"—"Talking about Change"?
Modeling Diversity, Comparability, and Change
“Models of the World”—“Talking about Change”?
This article describes concepts of change and the relation between change, models, and practices of comparing in premodern times: how did people conceptualize change if they thought of the world and nature as not controllable and regulable?I will analyze two kinds of models and how change was conceptualized in them: first, I look into models that explained the world and its history (Four Empires of Daniel) or the Rise and Fall of Empires (Giovann…
Modeling and Change