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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"conceptual history"”.
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The Common Man of the Street. A conceptual history, 1947-1975
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… with a turn away from lived experience and history, I argue that experimental novels by Michel Butor, Georges Perec, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras open the everyday lifeworld as a site where ethical questioning encounters the historical process. Each chapter pursues a close reading …
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Powering the Nation: A Conceptual History of "National Power" and the "Population Problem" in Modern Japan (1870s-2000s)
… by approaching the issue from the stance of conceptual history to argue that the idea of “national power” (*kokuryoku*) represented one of the guiding principles for the statist and conservative layers of Japan’s leadership when they conceived of Japan’s population. In other words, the …
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Architecture and Counter-revolution: The Ideology of the Historiography of the Soviet "Avant-garde"
The thesis produces a history of the Western historiography of Soviet architecture, looking at its trends and the evolution of its narratives. It focuses on the development of historiographical categories and their transformations, as an exercise of what Reinhart Koselleck calls conceptual history, …
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Legitimacy as design: Towards a realist theory of crisis in consolidated democracies
… that the state functions as a general-purpose conceptual technology: an institutional and symbolic framework embedded in citizens’ cognitive structures. Part Three explores the prospects for a legitimacy crisis, tracing the conceptual history of crisis and addressing systems-oriented …
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From the First to the Second Italian Republic in Catania (Sicily): politics, economy and society between cosmetic changes and deep continuities
… will be examined not only Reinhart Koselleck’s conceptual history of crisis (1988) to reveal the meaning(s) of the term crisis and the distinction suggested by Burckhardt in his Reflexion on History (1943) between ‘authentic’ and ‘fake’ crises but also what a crisis consist of and what …
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Justice Robert Jackson and the evolution of administrative law
… law. To help explain this present-day confusion, conceptual history of administrative law is presented. This history, which stresses how administrative law has been perceived, is divided into three major periods: 1893-1913, 1933-1946, and 1946 to the present. The definition is found to have began …
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Resource Transformation Through Capitalization Processes in Community Economic Development
… The first article (Chapter II) provides a brief conceptual history of the term ‘capital’ and continues by articulating a capital as process. The Community Capitals Framework provides several insights that shape the conception of resources and their use in the context of community economic …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
This dissertation develops a conceptual history of human anatomy, both as a discipline and as an epistemological model. Building on recent scholarship in the history of science, I argue that the basic organization of anatomical inquiry inspired a number of literary productions during the …
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Becoming Persian Music: A Poststructuralist Approach to Composition
… framework, intertwining (ethno)musicology, conceptual history, music theory, sociopolitical thought, semiotics, linguistics, and postmodern philosophy. The overarching objective is to meticulously scrutinise philosophical constructs, including the notions of *difference*, *rhizome*, …
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Inventing Idiocy: Law, Land And The Construction Of Intellectual Disability In Late Medieval England
… treated insanity as a concept with a cultural history. Less however has been written about the conceptual history of "idiocy." People outside the academy naturally assume that intelligence and its absence are natural categories, while historians who work on the cultural history of intellectual …
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Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict in Cold War America
Through the mode of conceptual history, this dissertation examines some of the forms dissent could take within academic social science in the United States from roughly 1945-1970. The concept in question is "conflict." There are many stories one could tell about this concept and its transformations …
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The Ethnos of the Earth: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and International Order
… that compose this PhD thesis reconstruct the conceptual history of ‘ethnicity’ in relation to its key neighbours and predecessors: Chapter 1 focuses on ‘nation’, Chapter 2 on ‘race’, and Chapter 3 on ‘tribe’. Focusing on the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the first chapter traces …
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The Contested Relationship of Democracy and the Economy : Debates on Economic and Industrial Democracy in Finland and Sweden, 1960s–1990s
… The study utilizes theories and methods of conceptual history, combined with a broader approach to ‘history of thought.’ Concepts are analyzed as parts of semantic fields or ideational constellations, where their meaning, reference and valuation are shaped in relation to other concepts and …
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On evildoers: A Foucaultian analysis of the discursive structuring of contemporary terrorism
… genealogical methods it provides an alternative history of the phenomenon in the form of a history of its discursive structuring: the regimes of practices that governed what could and could not be thought of, identified, defined, known, judged and punished as ‘terrorism’ during particular epochs, …
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Liberal Translations: Secular Concepts, Law, and Religion in Colonial Egypt
<p>This dissertation is a conceptual history of Egypt’s national formation between the 1880s and the 1930s. This period involved the convergence of nationalism, colonial rule, missionary activity, and new modes of governance at the national and international levels. Drawing on state and missionary …
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The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87
… labels have not been brought together into a conceptual history of epithets. When these terms are examined together, this thesis argues that the partisans, the opponents of British rule, invented many of the words to discuss who they were, build bonds of belonging amongst their supporters, and …
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Energy and Ideas of Progress in France and Britain, 1865-1924
From the British debate on the depletion of coal in 1865 to the First World Power Conference held in London in 1924, scientists, engineers, industrialists, and politicians produced new interpretations of the past, present, and future in terms of the mobilisation of energy resources. This thesis …
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CONCEPT OF REGULAR ENEMY AMIDST THE CONTEMPORARY PROJECT OF INDIVIDUALIZED WAR: CONTINUITIES, TRANSFORMATIONS, AND CONTRADICTIONS
… the thesis analyzes three contemporary modes of conceptualizing the enemy peculiar to individualized war: an ethical, a legal, and a strategic mode. Such modes of argumentation are crafted by experts and authoritative speakers as philosophers, lawyers, policymakers, and military strategists …
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Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region
… research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia) includes the discipline histories of Finno-Ugric studies, linguistics and the larger field of intellectual history. The study …
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