Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Tagged: migration
Blogging Migrant Knowledge – Part I
A lot of interesting material has been published over at Migrant Knowledge since its inception nearly three years ago. If the material could just as easily have found a home here, it was produced...
Germans Go Subtropical: Migration and the Quest for Environmental-Climatic Knowledge in South America
German migration in subtropical South America began in the early nineteenth century. It lasted for almost 150 years and shaped one of the most extensive projects of transnational forest colonization and global agricultural exchange...
Practical Knowledge and Inner-German Migration
But within a week I’d already found work. —Herr Winter Citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who moved to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the 1980s later incorporated their migration experience...
Knowledge and the Appropriation of Technology
It is striking how profoundly we have come to integrate technological artifacts into our lives and how commonplace these devices appear to us now. There were times when they were entirely new. Just think...
Producing Ignorance: Racial Knowledge and Immigration in Germany
We are members of knowledge societies, but we live in “an age of ignorance.” We are swimming in “oceans of ignorance” that have been consciously, unconsciously, and structurally produced “by neglect, forgetfulness, myopia, extinction,...
Mediators of Knowledge: WPA Folklorists and 1930s Migrant Culture
What kind of knowledge are we addressing when we talk about folk culture? What can we extract from work songs, ballads, lullabies, and reels? What do stories of various kinds, relayed by word of...
Insights into Loss from the History of Knowledge
This post is part confession and part revelation. When Simone Lässig approached me about collaborating on migration and the history of knowledge, I immediately agreed.1 I began writing about German scientists and the production...
Migration Statistics and the Making of an International Point of View in the Interwar Period
In the first week of October 1932, an International Conference on Migration Statistics was held in Geneva. Over the course of five days, some thirty statisticians from twenty-six countries discussed how to produce more...
Special Issue on Knowledge and Migration
Knowledge and Migration, a special issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft edited by Simone Lässig and Swen Steinberg, is appearing very soon (vol. 43, no. 3, 2017). Here is an overview of the predominantly English contents… Continue reading
