Architecture and Urban Planning as Social Engineering: Selective Transfers between Germany and Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s
This article considers selective transfers of knowledge between Swedish and German architects and urban planners from the early 1930s to the mid-1940s. It contextualizes such transfers with regard to transnational practices of social engineering in this period. By analysing mutual observations by protagonists working in institutions such as the DAF Reichsheimstättenamt or the Swedish state commission on housing, Bostadssociala utredningen, it argues that transfers were motivated by a shared conviction that architecture and city planning could contribute to an ‘ordering’ of society. Experts in both countries were committed to the ideal of an organic community, which, to them, appeared to be threatened by modern mass society, but could be restored by spatial interventions based on objective, scientific knowledge. Due to this overarching frame of reference, architectural concepts could easily be cleared of their respective ideological context, allowing for cross-border communication. Transnational planning paradigms such as the ‘neighbourhood unit’ could be made to conform with political projects as different as the ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ in Nazi Germany and the ‘People's Home’ (folkhemmet) in Social Democratic Sweden.
Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/51/1/22?rss=1
Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina
10.1080/14608944.2015.1127879
Tony Collins
Tony Collins
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2015.1127879?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
World society, international society and the periphery: British abolitionists and the post-slave state of Haiti in the early nineteenth century
10.1080/09557571.2015.1118997
Cristian Cantir
Cristian Cantir
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2015.1118997?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Literate Laywomen, Male Medical Practitioners and the Treatment of Fertility Problems in Early Modern England
<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>This article examines the choices made by women in the literate classes in England in the seventeenth century with regards to the treatment of their fertility problems. It is not concerned with the specific cures used, but rather with who was considered an expert on female fertility problems and where women sought treatment when they suffered from such problems. It argues that female fertility patients of the literate classes were unlikely to approach male practitioners to treat their conditions (even more so than for other medical conditions) and were more likely to self-treat or seek advice from other women (lay or professional). It further argues that those cases in which women did consult male practitioners were limited to specific situations. However, laywomen did not reject physicians' claims for authoritative reproductive knowledge, but rather incorporated that knowledge into their own treatment.</span>
Paul Weindling, Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
<span class="paragraphSection">WeindlingPaul, <strong><span style="font-style:italic;">Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust</span></strong>, London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. xviii + 312. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4725 7993 5.</span>
Turkish–Syrian relations in the wake of the Syrian conflict: back to securitization?
10.1080/09557571.2015.1117922
Cenap Çakmak
Cenap Çakmak
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2015.1117922?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R