Course Content
Browse classes:
- Staging of modernity, invention of the social and the productive failures
- The European/North Atlantic ‘Social Question’: the technicization and pluralization of social reform
- Borderlands, Peripheries, Colonies: The Staging of Modernity
- The Land is the Country!: Romanian revolutionaries, the „ghost of communism”, and the „terrible ghost” of Russia
- The Issue of all Issues: Russian Anarchists in Nineteenth Century Romania
- Cholera, Health for All, and Nation Building
- Racial Degeneracy and Demographic Anti-Semitism: C. Istrati
- The bacteriological state and the last wave of cholera: Victor Babeș
- Narodniks and Marxists: Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea
- The nationalization of the social question: C. Stere
- The Romanian Association for the Advancement and Spread of Sciences, the National Exhibition, and a Peasant Revolt
- The Emergence of Sociology: The Gusti School
Complete Bibliography:
Borderlands, Peripheries, Colonies: The Staging of Modernity
Many of the historiographical, sociological, and anthropological approaches, even when attentive to the colonial part of every European social modernity, focus less on the European center-periphery dynamic in the constitution of social expertise and social reform. The absence of a Western colonialism and the presence and intercession of ambiguously European and modernizing empires created, sometimes, a “double peripheral” status (Mishkova) for the whole area. The present project is centered on the history of European but peripheral socials and investigates the larger international and transnational tensions that created the local forms of the social: public hygiene, nineteenth century socialism, social economy, cooperative movement, professionalization and radicalization of social sciences, and alliances with the state.
Mandatory:
- Schwartz, H. (1997) “On the Origin of the Phrase ‘Social Problems’” Social Problems, 44 (2).
Recommended:
- Mishkova, D. and B. Trencsenyi, (2017) ‘Introduction’, in European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History, Berghahn Books.