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Month: February 2020

The Escape of Carlos Ghosn

On 19 November 2018, Carlos Ghosn traveled aboard his private jet from his vacation home in Beirut to his family home in Tokyo. The journey should have been a routine one for Ghosn, a then CEO of both Nissan and

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New Considerations

This week I was struck when reading by a number of considerations made within each article that I personally had not actively considered myself thus far in studying. The first of these that I found interesting was the consideration between

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What’s in a Name?

This past week, I spent some time researching ideas for my short essay when I found something that really made me reflect on the methods and concepts we have been learning so far.  I knew starting my research that I

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Lives Lived in Motion

At the closing of last week’s seminar, we discussed the word “transnational” itself, and whether people prioritised the ‘trans’ or the ‘national’ parts of the word. Personally, I like to emphasise transnational history’s ‘trans’ component over its ‘national’, but I

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On Life Writing

My father, for as long as I can remember, has subscribed to the Economist. He will read each issue cover to cover, folding over the articles he thinks I should read (now he forwards them to me because, the internet)

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Narain Singh – the life of a convict

History is scattered with marginal figures and overlooked characters. Clare Anderson in ‘Subaltern Lives’ sees it as her mission to rescue some of these figures from the shadows, focusing on colonial subjects and attempting to shed light on the broader

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Understanding Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot as transnational figures

It is easy to think about transnationalism as a system of concepts. Ideological, cultural, psychological concepts all move across the globe, are changed in turn as they move and interact with other concepts, and so on. But to view transnationalism

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The feminist framework

In our seminar earlier this week, Milinda made a point about the importance of considering the social relations that underlie the issues that we will encounter throughout our study of transnational and global history, and how considering different perspectives including

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‘Following the people’: microhistory as transnational history

Last week, we established that transnational history was a broad methodology that could be practiced and applied in a multitude of ways. This week’s readings sought to narrow down this definition by providing us with two specific examples of transnational

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The interconnectedness of meat (cubes) – A blog by Katrina

While musing over this week’s core readings I have found myself distracted and reflecting on some of the current implications of a transnational or global approach to history. Interactions between countries, nations, and cultures shape who we are and how

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What differences in style and approach can tell us about Clavin and Subrahmanyam’s approaches to the field.

The first thing of note in comparing Clavin and Subrahmanyam’s two monographs is the difference in time between the two. Clavin published Defining Transnationalism in 2005, a full eight years after Subrahmanyam’s own Connected Histories, published in 1997. That debates

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Condensing the Incondensable – ‘Transnational’ History

Upon reading the article Defining Transnationalism by Patricia Clavin, I was immediately mused by the breadth and ambition of what – in no easy terms – is ‘transnational history’. From the perspective of a history student studying at the University

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So What?

“If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” I’m reminded of the above quote, penned by late author Michael Crichton, in my attempts to process what

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Crossing Disciplinary Borders

Even at first glance, major overlaps can be identified between the topic of transnational history and comparative literature – the other subject comprising my joint honours degree. Both are concerned with challenging traditional national categorisations, refusing to remain constrained by

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A Precarious Balance

A theme that was consistently signposted throughout our seminar this week was the methodological difficulty that came with doing transnational history. Melinda and Bernhard both said something to this effect: ‘There is no one way to do or define “transnational

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