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 3-23 Abstract |  |
Editorial – botany in global history
‘Doing family’ through ICT-mediated ordinary co-presence: transnational communication practices of Romanian migrants in Switzerland
Abstract
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.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12110
Mediating the family imaginary: young people negotiating absence in transnational refugee families
Abstract
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.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12111
De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives: co-presence, care circulation and polymedia as vibrant matter
Abstract
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.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12109
The quotidianisation of the war in everyday life at German schools during the First World War
10.1080/00309230.2015.1133678
Joachim Scholz
Joachim Scholz
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00309230.2015.1133678?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Introduction: The European Union’s strategic partnerships: conceptual approaches, debates and experiences
10.1080/09557571.2015.1130341
Laura C Ferreira-Pereira
Laura C Ferreira-Pereira
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2015.1130341?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
N° 32 : Déplacer les frontières du travail
Les reconfigurations récentes du capitalisme industriel dans les sociétés occidentales ont provoqué des processus croisés de “dé-collectivisation”, de “précarisation” et de “ré-individualisation” du travail (Castel, 1995). Ces métamorphoses de l’organisation du travail ont suscité, dans le champ des sciences humaines et sociales, un mouvement d’extension consistant à qualifier de « travail » un nombre croissant d’activités humaines. Sans prétendre pouvoir en fournir une liste exhaustive – la question du déploiement possible de cette liste étant précisément un des enjeux du numéro –, on peut tout de même mentionner un ensemble d'activités désormais décrites comme relevant du travail, alors qu’elles étaient jusqu'alors communément comprises par le prisme de la générosité, du partage, de la solidarité, du don, du plaisir, de la création ou de l’engagement. Les sciences sociales ont ainsi forgé les catégories de travail domestique (Delphy, 1978), de travail parental (Descoutures, 2010),...
Quelle: http://traces.revues.org/6378
The High Court, The Constitution and Australian Politics
10.1080/02606755.2016.1141597
Marcelo B. Rodriguez Ferrere
Marcelo B. Rodriguez Ferrere
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02606755.2016.1141597?ai=2w6&mi=47tg1r&af=R