A Contingency-sensitive Theory of Global Change
Practices of Comparing as the Driving Force of Globalization/s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23627481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angelika Epple (0000-0002-7913-8656, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 251-276 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Comparing and Change (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14361/9783839472668-012 |
| OpenAlex | W4396547171 |
| ISBN | 9783839472668 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
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 understanding of global change as a contradictory process. The paper's conclusion reveals that certain practices prove to be particularly suited to intensify global change: the practices of comparison.
Contingency · Epistemology · Climate variability and models · Computer Science · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · Environmental Science · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Philosophy
History after Hobsbawm
The Force of Comparison
Comparing Europe and the Americas
Above/Below, Better/Worse or Simply Different?
Social Practices
Communities of Practice
The Great Divergence
The Great Divergence
Globalization, Progress, and Race in Military Reformers’ World Observations after 1865
Defining epochs in global history – Can we write a History-in-common without shared concepts
Between ‘Cannibals’ and ‘Natural Freemasons’
The Location of Transculture
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Theories of World History since the Enlightenment
A network of networks
Colonialism in Question
Fisheries’ collapse and the making of a global event, 1950s–1970s
Why understanding the timing of divergence matters
European medical experts in wars of ‘others’
How Rankings Produce Competition
Contingency and History
Wie ist Globalisierung möglich? Zur Entstehung globaler Vergleichshorizonte am Beispiel von Wissenschaft und Sport
Grundelemente einer Theorie sozialer Praktiken / Basic Elements of a Theory of Social Practices
Against Periodization
Rankings and Reactivity
| Highly cited | No |
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