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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Scaling Mobilities in the Age of Coach, Caravan, and Sail
DESCRIPTION:Our discipline has a long history of switching between the micro, the meso and the macro in an attempt to make sense of historical developments and phenomena. Global history has introduced the concept of playing with scales to reflect on this interplay between different levels of analysis, increasing the usefulness of scales as an analytical tool. The merits of zooming in and out have been demonstrated in the study of exceptional mobile actors like Elias of Babylon, the Iraqi Christian who travelled to Spanish America in the seventeenth century. John-Paul Ghobrial has called for conceiving such actors not only in terms of their global connections but situating them firmly within their various local contexts and the ways these informed their practices of mobility.
Our panel builds on this approach by investigating the ways in which historical actors themselves used different scales to make sense of their own mobility as well as that of others. It argues that such questions are just as relevant for understanding more widespread forms of mobility, such as alms collecting, pilgrimage, stagecoach travel and work mobility. We study intersections of mobility at different ranges within Europe as well as beyond, including migration to and from the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. By applying a comparative and intersectional perspective, we aim to bring into view the roles played by spaces, means of travel, objects, and texts in forming and habituating practices of mobility and to reflect on how these, in turn, shaped the social relations, self-representation and perception of mobile actors.
 
Der Beitrag Scaling Mobilities in the Age of Coach, Caravan, and Sail erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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