Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas

Introduction to Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas

Lucio Biasiori, Federico Mazzini and Chiara Rabbiosi

1. "Moving Textuality" in Early Modern Europe

2. The Challenge of Mobility for Commodity Chains: Time, Actors, and Value from an Historical Perspective

3. Mobilizing Pictures: The History of Science through the Lens of Mobility

4. Gendered Mobilities: Spaces, Images, and Power across the Mediterranean (16^th-20^th centuries)

5. Handling Distances as a Key Factor in Social Power Dynamics

6. Map-mobilities: Expanding the Field

7. Narrative Mobilities: Moving Texts from Representation to Practice

Afterword

Peter Merriman

8. Mobility: The Word and the Thing

9., Tyrannical Mobility, Dictatorial Mobility

10. The Anglo-Venetian Moment: Political and Legal Representations between the Republic of Venice and England in the Early Modern Age

11. Mechanics, Scholars and Objects: The Spread of Aristotle’s Philosophy and Its Exponents in Early Modern Europe

12. Synchronic Development or Diffusion? The Temporal Mobility of Violent Practices Before and After WWI

Giulia Albanese and Matteo Millan

Afterword

Biography

Lucio Biasiori is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Padua, Italy. He was previously a fellow of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and assistant professor in early modern history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy. His research encompasses the early modern period, with particular reference to the cultural, religious and political history of 16th-century Europe, studied in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework.

Federico Mazzini is associate professor of digital history and history of media and communication at the University of Padua, Italy. His previous work has focused on the sociocultural history of the First World War, particularly the peasant experience of the trenches and the popularisation of technoscience. He is currently working on various aspects of digital history, including web archiving, metadata and historical communication online, and ‘technical cultures’, such as radio hams, phreaks and hackers, in the 20th century.

Chiara Rabbiosi is associate professor of economic and political geography at the University of Padua, Italy. Her previous research has dealt with the social and spatial dimensions of urban studies and consumer culture, including the critical geographies of shopping tourism, cultural heritage and place branding. She is currently working on tourist spatial imaginations of Europe, and on the transit of tourism (including walking and multi-modal transport), approaching tourism mobilities in an embodied and performative way.

"Exhaustive, inclusive, and innovative, Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities is a treat for both professionals and newcomers to this discipline and capable of generating new ideas and perspectives. I wholeheartedly recommend it to a broad audience, confident that it will pique their interest in the ever-expanding field of mobility studies."

Hager Ben Driss, Associate Professor of English, University of Tunis, Tunisia

"Mobilities of ideas and concepts, of material things and images – are just some of the cases considered in theoretically sophisticated and geographically diverse chapters. Reimagining Mobilities is a foundational work as it provides a unique tool to understand mobilities in history, from ancient times to the present."

Giorgio Riello, Chair of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Italy