Title:'Alle wegen leiden naar Gent'. Trajecten van mediterrane migranten naar de Arteveldestad, 1960-1980
Author(s):DE BOCK, JozefienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ondanks de aankomst van nieuwe migrantengroepen in de loop van de voorbije twee decennia, is onze maatschappij nog steeds sterk getekend door de naoorlogse migratie van gastarbeiders en hun families uit de landen rond de ...
Title:Thinking Through Things
Author(s):EASTERBY-SMITH, SarahDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:'Materials and expertise in early modern Europe: Between market and laboratory' edited by Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary; Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010; explores the relationship between practical and theory-based ...
Title:O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta
Author(s):DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
Title:Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-GerhardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by ...
Title:Making Use of the Past: The role of historians in Baltic Sea Region building
Author(s):GRZECHNIK, MartaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper I analyze how the histories of the Baltic Sea region have been constructed and used in the post-Cold War period. After 1989, historians assumed the role of region-builders. Historical narratives were constructed ...
Title:The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: The ‘uniqueness of the Holocaust’ and the question of genocide
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyzes the debate about the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights by reconstructing the efforts to establish a government-sponsored Holocaust museum from the late 1990s. This history reveals that ...
Title:Die Krise ist kein Fußballspiel: Bemerkungen zu einem medial inszenierten Konflikt
Author(s):PANAGIOTIDIS, JannisDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article argues that the perception of a crisis in German-Greek relations that began with the „Greek crisis“ in the autumn of 2009 is the result of media coverage on both sides that indulged in football-style „us“ ...
Title:Financial Crises and the Balance of Power in International Finance, 1890-2010
Author(s):CASSIS, YoussefDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Has the centre of gravity of international finance irreversibly started to shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific since the financial debacle of 2007-2008? This article discusses this highly topical question in a historical ...
Title:Taking Off the Soft Power Lens: The United States Information Service in Cold War Belgium (1950-1958)
Author(s):GERITS, FrankDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In the 1950s, the Cold War became a battle for hearts and minds in which public diplomacy became the most important weapon. Public diplomacy can be broadly defined as an international actors’ attempt to conduct its foreign ...
Title:Forum: Intellectual history in and of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark ...
Title:La Mettrie ou les morts de Monsieur Machine
Author(s):THOMSON, AnnDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article, after evoking the hostile fictitious account of La Mettrie’s death in which he is described as a machine, studies first of all how this doctor discussed death in his own works, in particular in Système ...
Title:Beyond 'Media Panics': Reconceptualising public debates about children and media
Author(s):BUCKINGHAM, David; JENSEN, Helle StrandgaardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents a critical review of the use of “moral panics” theory as a means of understanding public debates about children and media, and specifically of the notion of “media panics.” Following a brief presentation ...