Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery challenges the traditional view that knowledge and ideas mainly flowed one way, creating centers and outskirts. The book looks at the uneven, multi-directional structure of intellectual and cultural exchanges in Europe and globally over the early modern and modern eras – from the Russian Empire’s shores to nation-building in Latin America.
The international authors show center and periphery aren’t absolute; they’re subjective, relying on interdependence and an evolving context. By analyzing this the book develops a framework for re-mapping centers/peripheries using conceptual and discourse history. It provides new perspectives on the complex subject of center and periphery, usefully adding to efforts in the humanities/social sciences to rethink spatial hierarchies.
The book is edited by researchers at UCL knowledgeable about transnational, cultural and intellectual history – Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner and Ulrich Tiedau. It has chapters on diverse topics and geographies, giving a nuanced take on the uneven encounters that have shaped Europe and the world’s intellectual/cultural landscape.
Recommended for: Scholars and students interested in the interdisciplinary study of the relationships between “centers” and “peripheries” in European and global contexts. This book offers a theoretical and empirical re-examination of these concepts. Historians and researchers focused on transnational, cultural, and intellectual exchanges, particularly how they challenge traditional spatial hierarchies.
You will:
- Gain a nuanced understanding of how “centre” and “periphery” are not fixed categories, but rather subjective constructions shaped by dynamic discourses and human agency.
- Explore a range of case studies covering the early modern to modern periods, from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-building in Latin America.
- Learn how the contributors develop a conceptual framework for “re-mapping” centres and peripheries based on approaches like conceptual history and discourse analysis.
- Discover how this volume challenges traditional narratives of one-directional flows of knowledge and ideas, in favor of more asymmetrical and multi-directional models of intellectual and cultural exchange.
Citation
Hauswedell, T., Körner, A., & Tiedau, U. (Eds.). (2019). Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts. UCL Press. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070455/
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