Former Ottomans in the ranks: pro-Entente military recruitment among Syrians in the Americas, 1916–18
Research Articles Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 01, pp 88-112Abstract
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Working together: new directions in global labour history
Research Articles Leo Lucassen, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 01, pp 66-87Abstract
Agriculture, American expertise, and the quest for global data: Leon Estabrook and the First World Agricultural Census of 1930
Research Articles Amalia Ribi Forclaz, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 01, pp 44-65Abstract
‘A young slip of botany’: botanical networks, the South Atlantic, and Britain’s maritime worlds, c. 1790–1810
Research Articles John McAleer, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 01, pp 24-43Abstract
True rhubarb? Trading Eurasian botanical and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century
Research Articles Matthew P. Romaniello, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 01, pp 3-23Abstract
Editorial – botany in global history
Editorial William G. Clarence-Smith, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 01, pp 1-2Abstract
‘Doing family’ through ICT-mediated ordinary co-presence: transnational communication practices of Romanian migrants in Switzerland
In this article, we account for the emergence of new ‘being together’ practices that transnational families develop through ICT-mediated communication. Drawing on the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland, we show how political and technological factors, family norms and obligations, as well as individual preferences and aspirations interact and generate novel ordinary co-presence routines that rely on multiple media affordances to recreate a space for family practices and shape different ways of ‘doing family’ at a distance. This study shows how a subtle sense of each other’s everyday life combines with possibilities and feelings of ‘being and doing things together’ at a distance, through multimodal interactions, reflected in ritual, omnipresent and reinforced co-presence routines. Although these routines are the drivers of new forms and feelings of togetherness, they generate ambivalent effects that range from immediate reciprocal wellbeing and emotional comfort to new expectations of solidarity, family tensions and constraints. In conclusion, ICT-mediated ordinary co-presence not only mirrors the ‘normal’ functioning of transnational families, but it also reflects, more generally, an expression of the cosmopolitanization of everyday life.
Mediating the family imaginary: young people negotiating absence in transnational refugee families
Although transnational families regularly experience extended periods of physical separation and dispersal, the emergence of new media means that most are now practised at sustaining forms of ‘connected presence’ and ‘mediated co-presence’ across time and space. Thus, migration no longer disrupts all family networks, for many continue to function as sites of support across national borders. However, refugee transnational families are a clear exception, with both physical and mediated contact between kin living in refugee camps or in transit remaining limited, if not impossible. Nevertheless, it is arguable that digital communication technologies have transformed even this experience of family dispersal. In this article, we demonstrate how young people from refugee backgrounds living in Melbourne respond to the absence of their family members by using digital media to construct a family imaginary that serves to sustain a sense of familyhood in contexts of ongoing separation.
De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives: co-presence, care circulation and polymedia as vibrant matter
A growing literature is addressing the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on transnational family relationships and the ability of family members to be co-present (emotionally ‘there’ for each other) across distance. In this article, I examine how relatively wealthy, middle-class Australian migrants use ICTs to achieve a sense of satisfactory distant co-presence with their transnational family members. I draw on the concepts of polymedia, vibrant matter and care circulation to explore how families are using ICTs in ways that are transforming forms of co-presence, as well as some of the pitfalls inherent in their use. I argue that these new forms of co-presence augment existing reciprocities and obligations and are facilitating ever-more dynamic and multifaceted relationships across distance.
The quotidianisation of the war in everyday life at German schools during the First World War
10.1080/00309230.2015.1133678<br/>Joachim Scholz