Gate-keeping and localizing in scientific translation publishing: the case of Richard Taylor and Scientific Memoirs
| Research Articles MAEVE OLOHAN, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 433-450 Abstract |  |
A sixteenth-century Neoplatonic synthesis: Francesco Piccolomini’s theory of mathematics and imagination in the Academicae contemplationes
| Research Articles GUY CLAESSENS, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 421-431 Abstract | |
‘We want no authors’: William Nicholson and the contested role of the scientific journal in Britain, 1797–1813
| Research Articles IAIN P. WATTS, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 47 Issue 03, pp 397-419 Abstract | |
Between Art and Social Science: Scenic Composition as a Methodological Device
The scenic composition (SC) is a methodological device enabling the synthesis and articulation of researchers' own complex experiences of events witnessed during data collection. Positioned between art and social science, it makes use of literary conventions to synthesise "experience near" accounts of data for interpretation. This article explains how the SC is composed by drawing on associative thinking and illustrates its use within a specific case study. The conceptual basis of the SC is discussed with reference to the work of LORENZER, WINNICOTT and BION. This is the first study in which four compositions, each by a different researcher, have been used to provide a multi-faceted view of a complex event, a live webcast. The compositions are presented along with researchers' reflections. Common themes and significant differences relating to life situations, histories and dispositions of the researchers emerge. The differences were expressed through choice of literary genres, which are common cultural resources. We ask what was achieved through the use of SCs compared with a thematic analysis of the webcast, and find that apart from synthesising and presentational functions, they give access to a multi-sensory range of researchers' experiences, including unconscious elements which were then available for reflexive interpretation by an interpretation panel.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140356
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2143
Context-Specific Positioning: A Research Method and an Analysis Strategy Based on the Example of a Minority Teacher
Developed in this article is an approach to context-specific positioning as a research method and an analysis strategy for qualitative migration research. Theoretical approaches and research have long stressed that migration-related processes of differentiation and the construction of belonging need to be seen as social phenomena which come about through relational means and differ according to context. This requires fluid social relationships (migration-related or otherwise) to be systematically analysed with regard to the specific everyday contexts in which they form. Until now, however, there has been little such analysis. This work reveals a possible methodology for achieving this by linking the analysis of positioning processes with the analysis of the setting in which positioning occurs in narratives. It thus specifically points out the ways in which positioning analysis can be used more fruitfully than previously by migration researchers.
This procedure is illuminated by an interview with a teacher ascribed to a minority. The analysis reveals from the teacher's point of view how migration-related (and other) processes of positioning oneself and others vary depending on everyday context, and reveals the significance that positionings take within school dominance systems and hierarchies.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140330
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2071
The Construction of Identities in Narrative Interviews—A Methodological Suggestion from Relational Network Theory
In this contribution, I propose a methodology for combining studies of situated constructions of identity in everyday conversations (small stories) and in narrative research interviews (big stories) drawing on Harrison C. WHITE's relational network theory and his concept of identity. Identities are constituted through relational positionings on local, typed, trajectoral or personalized levels. In narrative interviews narrators construct interactive identities in the interview situation (i.e. on a local level) by telling big stories about their life courses. Using a text passage from a narrative interview I demonstrate how autobiographic big stories are composed out of sets of nested small stories that contain identity positionings on different levels. I conclude that both sides—of the debate on small vs. big stories as well as WHITE's framework can profit from one another. Narrative interviews may provide important information on the dynamic constructions of the identities WHITE investigates. And WHITE's identity theory may reveal potential avenues of collaboration for big and small story research.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140311
Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2130
The Independent Workers Union: class, nation and oppositional labour movements in Ireland from 1900 to the Celtic Tiger
Labor History, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0023656X.2014.936693?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
“Like Barnabas and Saul”: Malagasy Converts in Britain, 1839–1841
In 1839, six Malagasy Christians arrived in Britain under the auspices of the London Missionary Society. The group had been persecuted in Madagascar for their faith. They were introduced to the British evangelical community as saints and martyrs who were dependent on the missionary society, but their decision to undertake the long journey was shaped by their spiritual beliefs, their desire to develop their education, and their wish to eventually become evangelical missionaries in Madagascar. At public meetings around the country, the Malagasy used a Christian frame of reference to describe their personal stories and their hopes for the future of Christianity in Madagascar. As speaking subjects, not merely objects of spectacle and display, they communicated to British audiences their credibility as fellow Christians, educated individuals, and civilised human beings.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12090
The Reign of Grace: Liberalism and Heresy in the New World
This article examines the controversy surrounding The Reign of Grace (1888), a pamphlet published in Dunedin by William Salmond (d. 1917), a Presbyterian intellectual. It came in for harsh criticism. James MacGregor, a conservative minister, and Adam Johnston, a layman, wrote rebutting pamphlets. The controversy occurred during a period in which Presbyterianism's leadership was dividing along liberal and traditionalist lines. It dominated proceedings at the Presbytery of Dunedin for months, featured at the 1888 Synod of Otago and Southland, and received some coverage abroad. At stake was Salmond's proposal for an extended “reign of grace” that allowed for postmortem repentance. His opponents considered this an attack on Christian mission. I discuss the controversy in terms of Salmond's views on the Bible, his challenge to the Westminster Confession, and his specific proposition for extending grace's “reign.” I argue that while the debate reflected a stark liberal–traditionalist polarisation — something seen particularly in regard to the Confession — there was something further at play. Regarding Salmond's extension of grace's reign, the debate was not between liberals and traditionalists, but between a man largely standing alone against an array of liberals and traditionalists who found his idea dangerous.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12089
Can Christianity Save Civilisation?: Liberal Protestant Anti-Secularism in Interwar America
This article explores the geopolitics of liberal evangelicalism, Christian Realism, and the ecumenical movement as collective responses to the rise of “secularism” after World War I. Alternatively, it considers how liberal Protestants looked to Roman Catholicism for support in their defence of the Christian identity of the United States and the West more generally. The long history of Christian anti-secularism in America complicates familiar portraits of liberal Protestants as agents of secularisation.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12126