Histoire Croisee Research Articles

“Nacional y Popular”: Vínculos y transferencias entre la Revolución boliviana y el ibañismo, 1952-1956

This article addresses the Chilean receptiveness to the Bolivian revolution during Ibanez’s second administration (1952-1958) based on the histoire croisee approach and the concept of transfer. It shows that the Bolivian revolution, which erupted in April 1952, exerted influence and aroused interest in the main organizations that supported the Ibanez’s administration. The revolution was characterized by the massive participation of various sectors of Bolivian society, as well as by the nationalization of tin mining and the agrarian reform. At the same time, Ibanista organizations in Chile attracted by the national - populism underlying the Bolivian revolution, even proposing the need to try implementing procedures and initiatives adopted by the government of Paz Estenssoro.

Der Weg nach Rio in Brazil: Histoire Croisée, Public Diplomacy and Film-Historical Research

The article discusses the relevance of the histoire croisee approach that has been only marginally applied to film and cinema historical research. Histoire croisee is an approach to write history from a transnational perspective. It tries to overcome the conceptual shortcomings of comparative and transfer studies and integrates them into its theoretical framework. The case study of a political-cultural conflict between Brazil and Germany illustrates some of the methodological advantages of the histoire croisee approach. The paper argues that writing historiography from a transnational perspective opens not only new areas of film historical research, it also offers a better understanding of film historical events that otherwise might be overlooked by comparative or transfer studies.

Eastern Orthodoxy. An histoire croisée and connected history approach

Ever since the 1990s and the beginning of a discussion over global history, debates between historians around terms such as transnational history, connected history and histoire croisee have proliferated. Sanjay Subrahmanyam has argued that practising connected history, implies that the historian functions as a sort of electrician. He is out there repairing and re‑establishing the connections between different grids that national historiographies have disrupted for the sake of rendering natio...

Corpos narrados nas memórias das ditadura do Cone Sul

Este trabalho apresenta resultados de pesquisa que focaliza o uso do gênero e das emoções na retórica dos movimentos de resistência às Ditaduras nos países do Cone Sul (Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, Chile, Paraguai e Uruguai) a partir de uma perspectiva da História Cruzada. Nas entrevistas realizadas na pesquisa, bem como outras fontes como periódicos, autobiografias e memórias, depoimentos a comissões, entre outras, buscamos relatos sobre o corpo das e dos militantes políticos, usados nas imagens narradas para efetivar uma experiência partilhada com o/a leitor/a. Essa experiência, segundo Raymond Williams (1985), seria um tipo particular de consciência, distinto de “razão” ou “conhecimento”, ou seja, um tipo de consciência na qual as emoções e afetos devem ser levados em conta. E, certamente, o gênero nos ajuda também a ver importantes aspectos de como homens e mulheres lidam, diferentemente ou não, com essas experiências. Para além da experiência, corporificada tanto naquele que narra seu corpo, como naquela pessoa que escuta e que experimenta de outra maneira, muitas vezes também corporificada em lágrimas, arrepios, risos, e outros gestos, essas narrativas também tem agência política.

‘The Age of a Mistaken Nationalism’: <em>Histoire Croisée</em>, Cross-National Exchange, and an Anglo-French Network of Periodicals

This article uses the toolbox of histoire croisee to study Anglo-French interaction in Ford Madox Ford's English Review and Transatlantic Review and T. S. Eliot's Criterion. It argues that histoire croisee allows for a more nuanced sense of processes of internationalization than Pierre Bourdieu's nationally inspired field theory and accounts for the selected magazines' varying degrees of success by combining both methodological perspectives. While Eliot's Criterion, despite its European ambitions, catered for a predominantly British audience, Ford's Transatlantic Review lacked a well-defined national readership, thus failing to acquire symbolic (and therefore economic) capital in Paris, London, and New York.

Circulatory Localities: The Example of Stalinism in the 1930s

If October 1917 marked the victory of a particular form of Marxism in circulation, developed in Western Europe and adapted for Russia by leaders in exile, the 1930s have been considered a period of inward retreat in comparison to the ferment of borrowing of the 1920s. Beginning in 1931, the foreign engineers and workers who manned the factories of the First Five-Year Plan were sent home. From the arts to the sciences, Soviet professionals in all fields who maintained connections to foreign specialists were increasingly subject to accusation and ultimately, to systematic repression. (1) The Great Depression in capitalist countries and belief in the successes of the First Five-Year Plan contributed to a feeling of triumph and a certainty in the superiority of the Soviet system that in turn engendered an ideological, national Bolshevism. (2) In the past 15 years, however, new research on Soviet history has shown to what extent the period of Stalin's consolidation of power remained open to borrowing. had as many implications for forms of economic organization and the administrative structure of the state as for culture (grand Stalinist cinema was Hollywood-like) or urban planning (modern functionalism was rejected in favor of a hierarchical city whose model was also sought abroad). One of the objectives of this article is to demonstrate, through five examples, that borrowing continued intensively throughout this period of official retreat and occurred in some of the most important areas of the construction of this new social system (without entering into the 1940s, however, which are much more complex and less studied, and which suggest the outline of new configurations). In so doing, this article intends to make another point. Scholarly literature on transfers is extremely rich. In economic, industrial, and technical as well as scientific or medical questions and in issues of architecture, literature, fine arts, and cinema, studies abound on the Soviets' practice of borrowing from the capitalist countries of Europe and from the United States. (3) These studies belong, for that matter, to a long, active, and sustained tradition going back well before the 18th century. (4) For the last 10 or so years, however, historical scholarship has made it possible to delve deeper and to move beyond the mere identification and description of transfers. At stake is a type of history close to histoire croisee, but which places greater emphasis on what circulates. Histoire croisee is extremely useful as a means of liberation from traditional methods of comparison that reify differences or similarities. (5) It introduces a reflexivity that allows for reciprocal questioning in every temporal and spatial dimension. Nevertheless, this approach is less sensitive to what circulates from one space to another. It is to circulation that I would now like to turn. This reflection on circulation is equivalent neither to a comparison nor to the study of transfers, nor even to histoire croisee. This approach is inspired by pioneering research on the history of the Indian subcontinent: Circulation is different from simple mobility, inasmuch as it implies a double movement of going forth and coming back, which can be repeated indefinitely. In circulating, things, men, and notions often transform themselves. ... therefore ... implies an incremental aspect and not the simple reproduction across space of already formed structures and notions. (6) Two major traits thus distinguish the circulatory approach from the transferential: on the one hand, emphasis is placed on the transformations that the entities in circulation undergo in the process of their displacement, and on the other, attention is drawn to the effects of the return movement on the point of departure: circulation is complete, even if the phenomena placed into circulation are no longer recognizable. as a heuristic theme thus emerges at a moment when the approaches comprising the highly varied and dynamic landscape of global studies are proliferating remarkably. …

Historizität, Materialität und Hybridität von Wissenspraxen

Abstract This article analyses the emergence of European regimes of prevention by focussing on the history of knowledge-related practices as a distinctly modern form of social and political rationality in Western Europe. While the targets, means, logics and institutional forms of preventative interventions differ significantly in European national contexts, the authors also trace the elements of a convergent trajectory in the development of prevention regimes. Based on a case study on Cyprus, the article also highlights how European colonies provided a crucial »laboratory« for the development of innovative approaches to prevention, revealing a »histoire croisee« of prevention practices.

После Компаратива: Histoire Croisée и Вызов Рефлективности

SUMMARY: This article was published in English as Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann. Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity // History and Theory. 2006. Vol. 45. Pp. 30–50 (© Wesleyan University, 2006). It presents, in a programmatic way, the histoire croisée approach, its methodological implications and its empirical developments. Histoire croisée draws on the debates about comparative history, transfer studies, and connected or shared history that have been carried out in the social sciences in recent years. It invites us to reconsider the interactions between different societies or cultures, erudite disciplines or traditions (more generally, between social and cultural productions). Histoire croisée focuses on empirical intercrossings consubstantial with the object of study, as well as on the operations by which researchers themselves cross scales, categories, and viewpoints. The article first shows how this approach differs from purely comparative or transfer studies. It then develops the principles of pragmatic and reflexive induction as a major methodological principle of histoire croisée . While underlining the need and the methods of a historicization of both the objects and categories of analysis, it calls for a reconsideration of the way history can combine empirical and reflexive concerns into a dynamic and flexible approach.