{"title":"Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. By W. Jake Newsome","authors":"Samuel Clowes Huneke","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shad004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41695915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This introduction sketches the common themes of the five articles in this special section, outlines the importance of studying the security state as a central feature of modern social history, and suggests future avenues for research and analysis of security institutions devoted to policing, surveillance, violence, and control. It focuses particularly on: the globalization of security practices; the relationship between cultural subjectivity, social conditions, and state formation; the generative quality of security state activity; and questions of periodization, causation, and change over time.
{"title":"Introduction: Social Histories of the Security State","authors":"Sam Lebovic","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This introduction sketches the common themes of the five articles in this special section, outlines the importance of studying the security state as a central feature of modern social history, and suggests future avenues for research and analysis of security institutions devoted to policing, surveillance, violence, and control. It focuses particularly on: the globalization of security practices; the relationship between cultural subjectivity, social conditions, and state formation; the generative quality of security state activity; and questions of periodization, causation, and change over time.","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":"56 1","pages":"521 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46786489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil. Edited by Brodwyn Fischer and Keila Grinberg","authors":"Oscar de la Torre","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":"4290 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60887993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile. By Elizabeth Quay Hutchison","authors":"Hillary Hiner","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44883238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In 1627, at the height of the Bamberg witch-hunt (1595–1631), the prince-bishopric erected the Malefizhaus ("witchcraft-house"), the first cellular prison purpose-built for solitary confinement. This article recovers the history of the Malefizhaus to establish the importance of imprisonment and carceral institutions to the early modern witch-craze. The prison at once concretized the ideology of the hunt and furnished a fearsome weapon of persecution, extracting the confessions without which no inquisitorial campaign could function. By reconstructing the singular architecture and internal regimen of the Malefizhaus, this article demonstrates the sophistication of early modern interrogations, a process distorted by an outsized interest in torture. Having recognized the Malefizhaus as a driver of the witch-hunt, it is possible to recognize the prison's impact upon Bamberg's seventeenth-century history—disrupting political and economic relationships, dis-placing populations, and disciplining social life. The case of the Bamberg witches' prison counters the modernist slant of the study of the prison, proof that medieval and early modern carceral institutions shaped the history of their societies, despite smaller scales and weaker state apparatuses. In turn, the essay argues that the critical tools of carceral studies, developed to study contemporary mass incarceration, can profitably be applied to premodern practices and institutions, offering insight into patterns of violence, the development of repressive structures, and the problems of "crime" as a historical category.
{"title":"Why Early Modern Mass Incarceration Matters: The Bamberg Malefizhaus, 1627–31","authors":"Spencer J Weinreich","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shac066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1627, at the height of the Bamberg witch-hunt (1595–1631), the prince-bishopric erected the Malefizhaus (\"witchcraft-house\"), the first cellular prison purpose-built for solitary confinement. This article recovers the history of the Malefizhaus to establish the importance of imprisonment and carceral institutions to the early modern witch-craze. The prison at once concretized the ideology of the hunt and furnished a fearsome weapon of persecution, extracting the confessions without which no inquisitorial campaign could function. By reconstructing the singular architecture and internal regimen of the Malefizhaus, this article demonstrates the sophistication of early modern interrogations, a process distorted by an outsized interest in torture. Having recognized the Malefizhaus as a driver of the witch-hunt, it is possible to recognize the prison's impact upon Bamberg's seventeenth-century history—disrupting political and economic relationships, dis-placing populations, and disciplining social life. The case of the Bamberg witches' prison counters the modernist slant of the study of the prison, proof that medieval and early modern carceral institutions shaped the history of their societies, despite smaller scales and weaker state apparatuses. In turn, the essay argues that the critical tools of carceral studies, developed to study contemporary mass incarceration, can profitably be applied to premodern practices and institutions, offering insight into patterns of violence, the development of repressive structures, and the problems of \"crime\" as a historical category.","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":"56 1","pages":"719 - 752"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41806132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal Article The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service From Vietnam To The Forever War. By Michael D. Gambone Get access The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service From Vietnam To The Forever War. By Michael D. Gambone, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. ix plus 214 pp. $90.00). David Kieran David Kieran Columbus State University kieran_david@columbusstate.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, shac065, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac065 Published: 13 January 2023
新禁卫军:美国退伍军人，社会和服务，从越南到永远的战争。《新禁卫军:从越南到永久战争的美国退伍军人、社会和服务》作者:Michael D. Gambone，阿默斯特:马萨诸塞大学出版社，2021年。Ix加214页。$90.00)。David Kieran David Kieran哥伦布州立大学kieran_david@columbusstate.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者社会历史杂志，shak065, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac065出版日期:2023年1月13日
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Abstract Mines and miners began to proliferate in Europe from the late twelfth century on, in lockstep with the region’s accelerating economic integration and urbanization. Mining communities were often rural and remote, reflecting landlords’ capacity to attract workers through freedoms that echoed the era’s incentives for urban migration. If, according to the adage, “city air makes free,” so apparently did the mine. Yet the specific affordances of mines’ materiality, and the mobility regimes they fostered, shaped distinct social dynamics. These emerge in their complexity when mining ordinances—a new type of legal subgenre—are explored for their handling of matter and movement. Mining legislation attests that the composition of ores, the underground extension of seams, the quality of available tools, and the behavior of gas, water, and air across different topographies were salient factors over which elites had little control. The raw physical constraints on directing the flow of people and matter into, through, and out of mines thus created a network of subterranean agency that translated under certain conditions into exterranean power.
{"title":"Mine Air Makes Free? Rural Liberty, Materiality, and Agency in Europe’s Long Thirteenth Century","authors":"G Geltner","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shac064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac064","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mines and miners began to proliferate in Europe from the late twelfth century on, in lockstep with the region’s accelerating economic integration and urbanization. Mining communities were often rural and remote, reflecting landlords’ capacity to attract workers through freedoms that echoed the era’s incentives for urban migration. If, according to the adage, “city air makes free,” so apparently did the mine. Yet the specific affordances of mines’ materiality, and the mobility regimes they fostered, shaped distinct social dynamics. These emerge in their complexity when mining ordinances—a new type of legal subgenre—are explored for their handling of matter and movement. Mining legislation attests that the composition of ores, the underground extension of seams, the quality of available tools, and the behavior of gas, water, and air across different topographies were salient factors over which elites had little control. The raw physical constraints on directing the flow of people and matter into, through, and out of mines thus created a network of subterranean agency that translated under certain conditions into exterranean power.","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":"252 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135703675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina. By Katherine Sobering","authors":"Jennifer A Adair","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shac063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47737839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers the ways that middle-class and elite citizens in post-revolutionary Mexico pursued access to exclusive favors from the state in the 1920s and 1930s and emphasizes the overlooked role of merit as political logic in this era. Examining political discourse within clientelist exchanges through the close reading of petitions, I explore ideas about class and nation as articulated by young strivers and their families who sought scholarships for foreign study. The article argues that working within clientelism, upwardly mobile Mexicans strategically wielded merit to preserve and legitimate their status amid social tectonic shifts. Petitioners’ ideas of merit encompassed individual loyalty and patriotism, unique talents, and inherited status. I identify heritable and disciplinary merit as distinct yet compatible understandings of worthiness used by privileged citizens. These citizens claimed that exceptional Mexicans trained abroad would make an outsized contribution to the national well-being and thus deserved special rewards, an argument which anticipated rationales that the Mexican state would later embrace for its modernization policy. After 1940, the state expanded international scholarship programs and invoked the same terms that citizens had used in the early post-revolutionary period to justify socially regressive benefits providing foreign education for the already fortunate.
{"title":"The Right to a Favor: International Scholarships, Clientelism, and the Class Politics of Merit in Post-Revolutionary Mexico","authors":"R. Newman","doi":"10.1093/jsh/shac056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article considers the ways that middle-class and elite citizens in post-revolutionary Mexico pursued access to exclusive favors from the state in the 1920s and 1930s and emphasizes the overlooked role of merit as political logic in this era. Examining political discourse within clientelist exchanges through the close reading of petitions, I explore ideas about class and nation as articulated by young strivers and their families who sought scholarships for foreign study. The article argues that working within clientelism, upwardly mobile Mexicans strategically wielded merit to preserve and legitimate their status amid social tectonic shifts. Petitioners’ ideas of merit encompassed individual loyalty and patriotism, unique talents, and inherited status. I identify heritable and disciplinary merit as distinct yet compatible understandings of worthiness used by privileged citizens. These citizens claimed that exceptional Mexicans trained abroad would make an outsized contribution to the national well-being and thus deserved special rewards, an argument which anticipated rationales that the Mexican state would later embrace for its modernization policy. After 1940, the state expanded international scholarship programs and invoked the same terms that citizens had used in the early post-revolutionary period to justify socially regressive benefits providing foreign education for the already fortunate.","PeriodicalId":47169,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41532451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite gay liberation’s close associations with political leftism, historians have long debated whether or not political liberation is indebted to the proliferation of consumer choice in liberal capitalist democracies. Answering this question often involves making a simultaneous claim about the political merits of capitalism, and the apparent greyness of rainbow life under state socialism can put leftleaning historians in an uncomfortable position. Samuel Clowes Huneke’s comparative look at gay life in postwar Germany, divided between a liberal capitalist West and a state socialist East, offers a unique opportunity to think through this history in more complicated ways that will resonate in many national contexts. Huneke advances a set of three, interlinking arguments: 1) homophobia is a more malleable concept than previously understood, 2) gay liberation is historically contingent and not wedded to consumer capitalism, and 3) a focus on gay men unsettles the assumption of a West German, capitalist success story. In so doing, Huneke is elegantly able to “weave together and to compare the trajectories of male homosexuality in the two German states across the span of forty years”—an ambitious project which constitutes his primary intervention (5). Due to the scope of his project, Huneke marshals a diverse set of sources. Most notable are the many oral history interviews that Huneke conducted, with leading gay and lesbian activists, the only democratically elected prime minister of the GDR, and anonymized individuals who experienced gay life and attendant repression in both states. These testimonies fill in gaps left in the written record, which here includes documents from state and regional archives, the East German secret police, and gay activist organizations. This range allows Huneke to engage in both historical scholarship on Germany as well as in European and US queer historiography. Huneke’s project therefore follows recent works in queer German history, including those of Benno Gammerl, Craig Griffiths, and Laurie Marhoefer, among many others, in interrogating reductive narratives that still haunt the field and engaging in international scholarship to do so. The book is organized into nine, thematically-oriented chapters, which also progress chronologically, alternating in focus between East and West Germany. The first chapter offers an overview of queer life in the first half of the twentieth
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