Studies of migration in the context of the Roman world have gained immense popularity in recent years. Migration studies are versatile and include multiple different foci, including the movement of minorities, the various types of historical evidence for migration, and the many migration motives. Amongst those motives, contagious diseases are usually neglected by scholars as a push factor. In his most recent work, Kyle Harper takes note of the population decline during the Plague of Cyprian in Alexandria, arguing that not all of these casualties need to be dead of plague; some people may have fled the chaos. Aside from this single critical note, however, Harper does not explore the possibility that migration during the third century CE may have been caused by the Plague of Cyprian. How people spread diseases as they travel is well-researched – in history, as well as in modern times with COVID-19 restricting our mobile way of living. However, migration as a result of pestilence in the Roman world – in other words, people fleeing cities to avoid getting ill and possibly dying as a result thereof – has not been given sufficient scholarly attention. Therefore, this study seeks to analyze the extent to which the Plague of Cyprian acted as a motive for migration in the Roman Empire between 250 and 270 CE. In doing so, it will demonstrate that the Plague of Cyprian likely caused indirect migration based on socio-economic and cultural consequences rather than direct migration as a strategy to avert disease.
{"title":"Pursued by Plague: Did the Plague of Cyprian Cause the Romans to Migrate?","authors":"Annelies de Hoop","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.103","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of migration in the context of the Roman world have gained immense popularity in recent years. Migration studies are versatile and include multiple different foci, including the movement of minorities, the various types of historical evidence for migration, and the many migration motives. Amongst those motives, contagious diseases are usually neglected by scholars as a push factor. In his most recent work, Kyle Harper takes note of the population decline during the Plague of Cyprian in Alexandria, arguing that not all of these casualties need to be dead of plague; some people may have fled the chaos. Aside from this single critical note, however, Harper does not explore the possibility that migration during the third century CE may have been caused by the Plague of Cyprian. How people spread diseases as they travel is well-researched – in history, as well as in modern times with COVID-19 restricting our mobile way of living. However, migration as a result of pestilence in the Roman world – in other words, people fleeing cities to avoid getting ill and possibly dying as a result thereof – has not been given sufficient scholarly attention. Therefore, this study seeks to analyze the extent to which the Plague of Cyprian acted as a motive for migration in the Roman Empire between 250 and 270 CE. In doing so, it will demonstrate that the Plague of Cyprian likely caused indirect migration based on socio-economic and cultural consequences rather than direct migration as a strategy to avert disease.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131881377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Bodies in Disarray","authors":"Dennis Jansen, M. Whittle","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131039880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper intervenes in Black Lives Matter discourse on the dehumanization of the Black subject. I explore the novel Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo, and read it in dialogue with Sylvia Wynter’s theory on ontological hierarchy. I also consider the novel through a relational ontological lens with the work of Adriana Cavarero. The theories of Cavarero and Wynter are brought together to show their common suspicion of the concept of Man as he has been forged by Western philosophy. Through analyzing the formal qualities of the novel through this double theoretical lens, I contend that Girl, Woman, Other provides a literary model of relational ontology and depicts an alternative model of the human subject, who evades archaic forms of ontological framing. I thus argue that Girl, Woman, Other engages with and offers a response to the Black Lives Matter imperative for a new genre of the human.
{"title":"Challenging the Overrepresentation of Man: Relational Ontology in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other","authors":"M. Husain","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intervenes in Black Lives Matter discourse on the dehumanization of the Black subject. I explore the novel Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo, and read it in dialogue with Sylvia Wynter’s theory on ontological hierarchy. I also consider the novel through a relational ontological lens with the work of Adriana Cavarero. The theories of Cavarero and Wynter are brought together to show their common suspicion of the concept of Man as he has been forged by Western philosophy. Through analyzing the formal qualities of the novel through this double theoretical lens, I contend that Girl, Woman, Other provides a literary model of relational ontology and depicts an alternative model of the human subject, who evades archaic forms of ontological framing. I thus argue that Girl, Woman, Other engages with and offers a response to the Black Lives Matter imperative for a new genre of the human.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131102759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing pressure on scholars in the humanities to articulate the value of their work in terms of measurable social, cultural, or economic ‘impact.’ In light of these developments, this year’s theme Utrecht University annual Humanities Graduate Conference was ‘What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities.’ This issue of Junctions, called ‘Questioning Value,’ developed in close collaboration with the conference, and asks what it means for humanities research to be valuable.
{"title":"Introduction: Questioning Value","authors":"A. Scholten","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.72","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, there has been an increasing pressure on scholars in the humanities to articulate the value of their work in terms of measurable social, cultural, or economic ‘impact.’ In light of these developments, this year’s theme Utrecht University annual Humanities Graduate Conference was ‘What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities.’ This issue of Junctions, called ‘Questioning Value,’ developed in close collaboration with the conference, and asks what it means for humanities research to be valuable.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121422796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A review of Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology edited by Ana Janevski and Roxana Marcoci, detailing the contributions the volume has made to the field of contemporary Eastern European art history as well as its present-day relevance.
{"title":"Review: Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology","authors":"Joanna Mardal","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.66","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology edited by Ana Janevski and Roxana Marcoci, detailing the contributions the volume has made to the field of contemporary Eastern European art history as well as its present-day relevance.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"93 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127982778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: The Neganthropocene","authors":"S. Manche","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.67","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115271923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As the ‘voice with a smile’, the telephone operator was the human interface for a complex telecommunications infrastructure, recalling voices, conversing with customers, and carrying out requests. Such service had to combine cognitive and affective labor in a way that felt natural. Drawing on workers memoirs, training manuals, and managerial rhetoric between 1890 and 1940—an era of taylorist rationalization—the article tracks how the operator highlighted the limits of such rationalization. Rather than the mold of management, the operator required a more supple regime of self-management. This labor form initiated a shift from a prescriptive, mechanical worker to a more holistic, self-directed model. Anticipating by several decades Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’ and Rose’s ‘enterprise of the self’, these theories nevertheless provide insight into this more flexible, more economic form of power. The operator thus provides a precursor for the contemporary subject who must also deftly combine cognitive and affective labor into an always-on, always-improving performance. In setting goals, auditing activity and integrating feedback, self-management proves more effective than any managerial intervention.
{"title":"Subordinated to Oneself: The Switchboard Operator as Early Self Manager","authors":"Luke Munn","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.58","url":null,"abstract":"As the ‘voice with a smile’, the telephone operator was the human interface for a complex telecommunications infrastructure, recalling voices, conversing with customers, and carrying out requests. Such service had to combine cognitive and affective labor in a way that felt natural. Drawing on workers memoirs, training manuals, and managerial rhetoric between 1890 and 1940—an era of taylorist rationalization—the article tracks how the operator highlighted the limits of such rationalization. Rather than the mold of management, the operator required a more supple regime of self-management. This labor form initiated a shift from a prescriptive, mechanical worker to a more holistic, self-directed model. Anticipating by several decades Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’ and Rose’s ‘enterprise of the self’, these theories nevertheless provide insight into this more flexible, more economic form of power. The operator thus provides a precursor for the contemporary subject who must also deftly combine cognitive and affective labor into an always-on, always-improving performance. In setting goals, auditing activity and integrating feedback, self-management proves more effective than any managerial intervention.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130271583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Humanites: Toward an Impracticable Thinking","authors":"J. Boot","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.60","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134405143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay argues that Richard Powers’ The Overstory is an example of how literature, as a narrative that is both reflective and focused on representation, contributes to current circulating debates surrounding the valorisation, productivity and practicality of interdisciplinary knowledge. This essay reads Powers’ novel against the tendency within our society to value literature only on the basis of individual artistic accomplishments. This tendency establishes a boundary between art and science and excludes literature from the realm of a ‘problem-solving’ practicality (Clark 190). As our analysis shows, the novel reflects on the impact and value of interdisciplinary knowledge by presenting a narrative that traces the production and reception of a interdisciplinary work. Additionally, the novel endows the debate about interdisciplinary knowledge with a new light by ‘treeing’ its narrative in both its narratological form and thematic content. It listens to the message of trees as lives mediating between multiple spatial-temporal scales and frames the characters’ sensitivity to this message as a scale awareness. Finally, the interdisciplinary conflicts are read as scale conflicts which the characters in the novel encounter when they try to provide solution to the issue of deforestation.
{"title":"Reading Richard Powers' The Overstory: ‘treeing’ the issue of interdisciplinary knowledge","authors":"Lisanne E. Meinen, Kaixuan Yao, K. Herforth","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.59","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that Richard Powers’ The Overstory is an example of how literature, as a narrative that is both reflective and focused on representation, contributes to current circulating debates surrounding the valorisation, productivity and practicality of interdisciplinary knowledge. This essay reads Powers’ novel against the tendency within our society to value literature only on the basis of individual artistic accomplishments. This tendency establishes a boundary between art and science and excludes literature from the realm of a ‘problem-solving’ practicality (Clark 190). As our analysis shows, the novel reflects on the impact and value of interdisciplinary knowledge by presenting a narrative that traces the production and reception of a interdisciplinary work. Additionally, the novel endows the debate about interdisciplinary knowledge with a new light by ‘treeing’ its narrative in both its narratological form and thematic content. It listens to the message of trees as lives mediating between multiple spatial-temporal scales and frames the characters’ sensitivity to this message as a scale awareness. Finally, the interdisciplinary conflicts are read as scale conflicts which the characters in the novel encounter when they try to provide solution to the issue of deforestation.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127768601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After the 2008 global financial crisis, many have gone back to Karl Marx’s works in search for answers or remedies. Very few have done this, though, with the insight of David Harvey. The difference lies with the latter’s astonishing experience on the subject: for over five decades, Harvey has been studying and teaching Marx’s writings, inspiring generations of students and academics not only in his home fields of (critical) geography and anthropology but also in multiple others across the humanities and the social sciences (see Times Higher Education 2009). His interpretation of the German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary is rigorous, creative, and accessible.
{"title":"Review: Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. By David Harvey.","authors":"Stratos Kladis","doi":"10.33391/jgjh.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.62","url":null,"abstract":"After the 2008 global financial crisis, many have gone back to Karl Marx’s works in search for answers or remedies. Very few have done this, though, with the insight of David Harvey. The difference lies with the latter’s astonishing experience on the subject: for over five decades, Harvey has been studying and teaching Marx’s writings, inspiring generations of students and academics not only in his home fields of (critical) geography and anthropology but also in multiple others across the humanities and the social sciences (see Times Higher Education 2009). His interpretation of the German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary is rigorous, creative, and accessible.","PeriodicalId":115950,"journal":{"name":"Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114355193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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