Song-Chuan Chen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888390564
- eISBN:
- 9789888390274
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390564.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural ...
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This book challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was triggered by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in the 1830s, known as the ‘Warlike Party’. Living in a period when British knowledge of China was growing rapidly, the Warlike Party came to understand China’s weakness and its members returned to London to lobby for intervention until war broke out in 1839.
However, the Warlike Party did not get its way entirely. Another group of British merchants known in Canton as the ‘Pacific Party’ opposed the war. In Britain, the anti-war movement gave the conflict its infamous name, the ‘Opium War’, which has stuck ever since. Using materials housed in the National Archives, UK, the First Historical Archives of China, the National Palace Museum, the British Library, SOAS Library, and Cambridge University Library, this meticulously researched and lucid volume is a new history of the cause of the First Opium War.Less
This book challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was triggered by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in the 1830s, known as the ‘Warlike Party’. Living in a period when British knowledge of China was growing rapidly, the Warlike Party came to understand China’s weakness and its members returned to London to lobby for intervention until war broke out in 1839.
However, the Warlike Party did not get its way entirely. Another group of British merchants known in Canton as the ‘Pacific Party’ opposed the war. In Britain, the anti-war movement gave the conflict its infamous name, the ‘Opium War’, which has stuck ever since. Using materials housed in the National Archives, UK, the First Historical Archives of China, the National Palace Museum, the British Library, SOAS Library, and Cambridge University Library, this meticulously researched and lucid volume is a new history of the cause of the First Opium War.
Giovan Francesco Lanzara
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034456
- eISBN:
- 9780262332309
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034456.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
The book is an inquiry into how the potentially disruptive character and the restructuring potential of new technologies interact with the inherently conservative nature of social practices. At the ...
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The book is an inquiry into how the potentially disruptive character and the restructuring potential of new technologies interact with the inherently conservative nature of social practices. At the same time the book provides reflective insights on how the accomplishment of such primary research goal is contingent upon the researcher’s ability to reflect on his own methods and findings and reframe his own assumptions as the process of innovation unfolds. The book opens with a Prologue and is organized in four major Parts followed by an Epilogue. The leading idea is that in order to study innovation-in-practice as a phenomenon one must look at situations of discontinuity and rupture and explore them in depth, thus turning them into expanded worlds of meaning that offer unique possibilities for understanding and acting. The empirical base of the book is constituted by two extended field studies closely tracking design and innovation processes in distinct practice settings, music education and court trials. The research method is based on interpretive and reflective ethnography. The case analysis and findings are illustrated by means of theoretical narratives merging data and conceptual reasoning. Then, based on the interpretive analysis of the rich case study materials, and combining insights from organization studies, cognitive theory, phenomenology, information technology, design theory, philosophy and art, the book presents further inquiries into a variety of issues such as remediation, multiple representations, digital and visual objects, transient knowledge, tinkering, ontology, as well as the quandaries of the researcher when s/he engages in the practice of doing research.Less
The book is an inquiry into how the potentially disruptive character and the restructuring potential of new technologies interact with the inherently conservative nature of social practices. At the same time the book provides reflective insights on how the accomplishment of such primary research goal is contingent upon the researcher’s ability to reflect on his own methods and findings and reframe his own assumptions as the process of innovation unfolds. The book opens with a Prologue and is organized in four major Parts followed by an Epilogue. The leading idea is that in order to study innovation-in-practice as a phenomenon one must look at situations of discontinuity and rupture and explore them in depth, thus turning them into expanded worlds of meaning that offer unique possibilities for understanding and acting. The empirical base of the book is constituted by two extended field studies closely tracking design and innovation processes in distinct practice settings, music education and court trials. The research method is based on interpretive and reflective ethnography. The case analysis and findings are illustrated by means of theoretical narratives merging data and conceptual reasoning. Then, based on the interpretive analysis of the rich case study materials, and combining insights from organization studies, cognitive theory, phenomenology, information technology, design theory, philosophy and art, the book presents further inquiries into a variety of issues such as remediation, multiple representations, digital and visual objects, transient knowledge, tinkering, ontology, as well as the quandaries of the researcher when s/he engages in the practice of doing research.
Elaine Leong
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226583495
- eISBN:
- 9780226583525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226583525.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This concluding chapter argues that recipes and recipe knowledge were framed by the complex concerns of everyday life. The household as a site for making recipe knowledge had far-reaching ...
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This concluding chapter argues that recipes and recipe knowledge were framed by the complex concerns of everyday life. The household as a site for making recipe knowledge had far-reaching consequences. For many fathers and mothers, writing it was combined with a dose of family history. Concurrently, recipe books were records of social networks and, most crucially, accounts or ledgers of obligations and gratitude. Writing down recipe knowledge was thus potently influenced by these frameworks of social and family strategy. Recipe trials were also one of the main pathways through which householders gained a deeper understanding of sickness and health, of the human body, of natural and man-made processes, and of materials. Exploring recipes thus grants us a glimpse into the lives of early modern men and women and into the making of “everyday knowledge.”Less
This concluding chapter argues that recipes and recipe knowledge were framed by the complex concerns of everyday life. The household as a site for making recipe knowledge had far-reaching consequences. For many fathers and mothers, writing it was combined with a dose of family history. Concurrently, recipe books were records of social networks and, most crucially, accounts or ledgers of obligations and gratitude. Writing down recipe knowledge was thus potently influenced by these frameworks of social and family strategy. Recipe trials were also one of the main pathways through which householders gained a deeper understanding of sickness and health, of the human body, of natural and man-made processes, and of materials. Exploring recipes thus grants us a glimpse into the lives of early modern men and women and into the making of “everyday knowledge.”
Nicole Nguyen, A. Wendy Nastasi, Angie Mejia, Anya Stanger, Meredith Madden, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040412
- eISBN:
- 9780252098833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040412.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter offers a description and analysis of a pedagogy project—a graduate seminar held at Syracuse University in 2012 which, while focusing on transnational feminist theories, fostered a ...
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This chapter offers a description and analysis of a pedagogy project—a graduate seminar held at Syracuse University in 2012 which, while focusing on transnational feminist theories, fostered a critical praxis of radical feminist cross-border solidarities and nurtured epistemic friendships. The chapter examines the steps that constituted this collaborative process, including building a unit plan geared toward undergraduates, researching appropriate topics of discussion, and creating assignments and learning objectives. From here, the chapter considers some significant questions on friendship in light of this collaborative project in order to animate the complexities of such generative collective processes that foster solidarity, enable social action, and, also, reproduce inequality.Less
This chapter offers a description and analysis of a pedagogy project—a graduate seminar held at Syracuse University in 2012 which, while focusing on transnational feminist theories, fostered a critical praxis of radical feminist cross-border solidarities and nurtured epistemic friendships. The chapter examines the steps that constituted this collaborative process, including building a unit plan geared toward undergraduates, researching appropriate topics of discussion, and creating assignments and learning objectives. From here, the chapter considers some significant questions on friendship in light of this collaborative project in order to animate the complexities of such generative collective processes that foster solidarity, enable social action, and, also, reproduce inequality.
Angus Vine
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198809708
- eISBN:
- 9780191847134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198809708.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter discusses the notebooks of the inventor, writer on agriculture, brewer, and businessman, Sir Hugh Plat. Building on the discussion of knowledge transfer in Chapter 4, this chapter shows ...
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This chapter discusses the notebooks of the inventor, writer on agriculture, brewer, and businessman, Sir Hugh Plat. Building on the discussion of knowledge transfer in Chapter 4, this chapter shows how Plat’s surviving manuscripts constitute a ‘network of notebooks’. Focusing on the copying and circulation of information across these volumes, the chapter reveals how Plat developed a system of annotation, which progressed from hodgepodge miscellanies, organized only by date of entry, to topically rigorous manuscripts arranged by subject. This system was essential to Plat’s lifelong project to improve recipes, information, and ultimately knowledge itself. Drawing on his printed commonplace books as well, the chapter reveals that Plat’s ‘network’ was grounded in humanist methods of reading, but that he also transformed those precepts and practices by extending them from textual examples to incorporate observed particulars and much more miscellaneous material as well.Less
This chapter discusses the notebooks of the inventor, writer on agriculture, brewer, and businessman, Sir Hugh Plat. Building on the discussion of knowledge transfer in Chapter 4, this chapter shows how Plat’s surviving manuscripts constitute a ‘network of notebooks’. Focusing on the copying and circulation of information across these volumes, the chapter reveals how Plat developed a system of annotation, which progressed from hodgepodge miscellanies, organized only by date of entry, to topically rigorous manuscripts arranged by subject. This system was essential to Plat’s lifelong project to improve recipes, information, and ultimately knowledge itself. Drawing on his printed commonplace books as well, the chapter reveals that Plat’s ‘network’ was grounded in humanist methods of reading, but that he also transformed those precepts and practices by extending them from textual examples to incorporate observed particulars and much more miscellaneous material as well.
Pablo F. Gómez
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630878
- eISBN:
- 9781469630892
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630878.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This book examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative knowledge about the natural world, and particularly the body, during the long seventeenth century. It reveals a ...
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This book examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative knowledge about the natural world, and particularly the body, during the long seventeenth century. It reveals a hitherto untold history about the transformation of early modern natural and human landscapes, one that unfolds outside existent analytical frameworks for the study of the Atlantic world. The book introduces some of the earliest and richest known records carrying the voices of people of African descent, including African themselves, to change our understanding of the dynamics and intellectual spaces in which early modern people produced transformative ideas about the natural world. Caribbean cultures of bodies and healing appeared through a localized epistemological upheaval based on the experiential and articulated by ritual specialists of African origin. These changes resulted from multiple encounters between actors coming from all over the globe that occurred in a social, spiritual, and intellectual realm that, even though ubiquitous, does not appear in existent histories of science, medicine, and the African diaspora. The intellectual leaders of the mostly black and free communities of the seventeenth century Caribbean defined not only how to interpret nature, but also the very sensorial landscapes on which reality could be experienced. They invented a powerful and lasting way of imagining, defining and dealing with the world.Less
This book examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative knowledge about the natural world, and particularly the body, during the long seventeenth century. It reveals a hitherto untold history about the transformation of early modern natural and human landscapes, one that unfolds outside existent analytical frameworks for the study of the Atlantic world. The book introduces some of the earliest and richest known records carrying the voices of people of African descent, including African themselves, to change our understanding of the dynamics and intellectual spaces in which early modern people produced transformative ideas about the natural world. Caribbean cultures of bodies and healing appeared through a localized epistemological upheaval based on the experiential and articulated by ritual specialists of African origin. These changes resulted from multiple encounters between actors coming from all over the globe that occurred in a social, spiritual, and intellectual realm that, even though ubiquitous, does not appear in existent histories of science, medicine, and the African diaspora. The intellectual leaders of the mostly black and free communities of the seventeenth century Caribbean defined not only how to interpret nature, but also the very sensorial landscapes on which reality could be experienced. They invented a powerful and lasting way of imagining, defining and dealing with the world.
Richa Nagar
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038792
- eISBN:
- 9780252096754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038792.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter draws attention to the ways in which a commitment to radical vulnerability can enable and enrich politically engaged alliance work, and the particular ways in which affect and trust ...
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This chapter draws attention to the ways in which a commitment to radical vulnerability can enable and enrich politically engaged alliance work, and the particular ways in which affect and trust empower translations across borders. It presents excerpts of letters, conversations, poems, and narratives from contexts that might seem disjointed and disparate on the surface but that tell stories—of encounters, events, and relationships—that have enabled the arguments made in the rest of this book. These fragments also point to the intense entanglements between autobiography and politics, and seek to initiate a discussion on feminist praxis that commits itself to learning and unlearning by inserting one's body—individually and collectively—into the process of knowledge making and the generative challenges that such insertion poses for imagining storytelling and engagement across socioeconomic, geographical, and institutional borders.Less
This chapter draws attention to the ways in which a commitment to radical vulnerability can enable and enrich politically engaged alliance work, and the particular ways in which affect and trust empower translations across borders. It presents excerpts of letters, conversations, poems, and narratives from contexts that might seem disjointed and disparate on the surface but that tell stories—of encounters, events, and relationships—that have enabled the arguments made in the rest of this book. These fragments also point to the intense entanglements between autobiography and politics, and seek to initiate a discussion on feminist praxis that commits itself to learning and unlearning by inserting one's body—individually and collectively—into the process of knowledge making and the generative challenges that such insertion poses for imagining storytelling and engagement across socioeconomic, geographical, and institutional borders.
Kenneth J. Gergen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199846269
- eISBN:
- 9780190256302
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199846269.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter focuses on knowledge as a relational achievement. Replacing the heroic accounts of the individual discoverer, it argues that what we call knowledge is a result of the process of ...
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This chapter focuses on knowledge as a relational achievement. Replacing the heroic accounts of the individual discoverer, it argues that what we call knowledge is a result of the process of co-action. It first looks at the shortcomings of the traditional concept of knowledge and what is offered by a relational alternative. It then considers three relevant sites of practice: the creation of disciplines, the act of writing, and the practice of social science research. In each of these instances, the chapter suggests that fragmentation and conflict must be replaced with productive coordination. More specifically, it examines the tendency for knowledge-making communities to isolate themselves, both from each other and the broader public; how traditional writing practices leads to alienation; and the relationship of social science researchers to those they study.Less
This chapter focuses on knowledge as a relational achievement. Replacing the heroic accounts of the individual discoverer, it argues that what we call knowledge is a result of the process of co-action. It first looks at the shortcomings of the traditional concept of knowledge and what is offered by a relational alternative. It then considers three relevant sites of practice: the creation of disciplines, the act of writing, and the practice of social science research. In each of these instances, the chapter suggests that fragmentation and conflict must be replaced with productive coordination. More specifically, it examines the tendency for knowledge-making communities to isolate themselves, both from each other and the broader public; how traditional writing practices leads to alienation; and the relationship of social science researchers to those they study.
