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Futures Past. Economic Forecasting in the 20th and 21st Century
No full textFew areas in economics are as controversial as economic forecasting. While the field has sparked great hopes for the prediction of economic trends and events throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, economic forecasts have often proved inaccurate or unreliable, thus provoking severe criticism in times of unpredicted crisis. Despite these failures, economic forecasting has not lost its importance. Futures Past considers the history and present state of economic forecasting, giving a fascinating account of the changing practices involved, their origins, records, and their implications. By bringing together economists, historians, and sociologists, this volume offers fresh perspectives on the place of forecasting in modern industrial societies, thereby making a broader claim for greater interdisciplinary cooperation in the history of economics.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/7142
Entangled Encounters: The Transcultural Counterwitness and Implication in Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s Situations
No full textDrawing on current definitions of public testimony, this study turns to the work of Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s Situations to explore how video poems challenge the pervasive stereotyping of black Americans in mainstream journalism and implicate viewers, particularly white ones, into the everyday and historical traumas of racial violence. Video poems, such as Situations, take advantage of multimodal channels to move viewers beyond spectator guilt to introduce a more nuanced understanding of American and global racism. Through an investigation of three of their video poems, “Stop and Frisk,” “In Memory of Trayvon Martin,” and “World Cup,” this study explores how Rankine and Lucas’s work opposes, and engages with, the pervasive stereotyping of black Americans presented in mainstream news media; how the multimodal nature of video poetry problematizes the viewers’ relationship with American and global racism; and how acts of counterwitnessing implicate viewers into distant histories of racial trauma.http://www.asjournal.org/69-2020/entangled-encounters-the-transcultural-counterwitness-and-implication-in-claudia-rankine-and-john-lucas-situations
An Intimate Knowledge of the Past? Gossip in the Archives
No full textGerman Historical Institute Washingtonhttps://historyofknowledge.net/2020/02/12/gossip-in-the-archives/#more-1335
Picking Over the Bones: Amalie Dietrich and Colonial Queensland
No full textThis is a comment on Stefanie Affeldt and Wulf D. Hund's article "From ‘Plant Hunter’ to ‘Tomb Raider.’ The Changing Image of Amalie Dietrich" which was published in the same issue
