Books by Benno Gammerl
Subjects, Citizens, and Others Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918, 2017
Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples,... more Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe—the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity. Notwithstanding their many differences, both empires faced similar administrative questions as a result: Who was excluded or admitted? What advantages were granted to which groups? And how could diversity be reconciled with demands for national autonomy and democratic participation? In this pioneering study, Benno Gammerl compares Habsburg and British approaches to governing their diverse populations, analyzing imperial formations to reveal the legal and political conditions that fostered heterogeneity.
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Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, and Uffa Jensen: Introduction
1: Uffa Jensen: ... more Table of Contents
Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, and Uffa Jensen: Introduction
1: Uffa Jensen: Mrs Gaskell's Anxiety
2: Stephanie Olsen: Dickon's Trust
3: Margrit Pernau: Ashgari's Piety
4: Daniel Brückenhaus: Ralph's Compassion
5: Pascal Eitler: Doctor Dolittle's Empathy
6: Magdalena Beljan and Benno Gammerl: Wendy's Love
7: Ute Frevert: Piggy's Shame
8: Anja Laukötter: Lebrac's Pain
9: Bettina Hitzer: Jim Button's Fear
10: Jan Plamper: Ivan's Bravery
11: Juliane Brauer: Heidi's Homesickness
12: Joachim C. Häberlen: Ingrid's Boredom
Margrit Pernau: Epilogue: Translating Books, Translating Emotions
Emotions are as old as humankind. But what do we know about them and what importance do we assign... more Emotions are as old as humankind. But what do we know about them and what importance do we assign to them? Emotional Lexicons is the first cultural history of terms of emotion found in German, French, and English language encyclopaedias since the late seventeenth century. This knowledge was (and still is) related to fundamental questions regarding the human condition: Are feelings of mental or physical nature? Can emotions be interpreted? Do animals have feelings? Are women more emotional than men? Are there children’s and grown-ups’ emotions? Is it possible to "civilize feelings"? Can emotions cause illnesses? Are groups capable of emotions? Can feelings bond or divide?
This book presents a cultural history of how emotions were defined and discussed in encyclopedias... more This book presents a cultural history of how emotions were defined and discussed in encyclopedias in German, French, and English since the late seventeenth century. As the book demonstrates, encyclopedias were not simply neutral transmitters of knowledge but served as moral arbiters to their readers, providing guidelines for the appropriate regulation and expression of emotions. These publications also participated in fundamental discussions on human nature, providing answers as to whether emotions are located in the mind or in the body, whether we can read each other’s emotions, whether men and women, children and adults, Western and non-Western peoples share the same emotions, and thus whether emotions are biologically determined by sex and race or differ according to culture and cultivation. Encyclopedias could thereby entrench or challenge gender differences and reinforce or undermine civilizing missions among other things. The reference works studied in this book form a relatively cohesive body of source material made up of 10,000 articles across 200 reference works in three languages. They were an important resource for the middle classes, distilling core aspects of the scientific discussion taking place in the academy for a broader reading public. As a result, these works provide a unique opportunity for charting continuity and change across European societies. In particular, they refracted the changing ways in which academic disciplines wielded authority in the cultural and political spheres—for instance, highlighting how definitions of emotions formulated by theologians and philosophers gave way in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to theories advanced by psychologists and neuroscientists. Emotions have today not simply become uncontroversial scientific facts, but continue to be a source of vibrant debates—debates that still move in and out of the pages of the encyclopedias.
Gefühle sind so alt wie die Menschheit. Aber was wissen wir über sie und welche Bedeutung messen ... more Gefühle sind so alt wie die Menschheit. Aber was wissen wir über sie und welche Bedeutung messen wir ihnen bei? In diesem Band werden wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Debatten analysiert, die Europäer seit dem 18. Jahrhundert über Affekte, Leidenschaften, Empfindungen und Emotionen führten. Dabei zeigt sich, wie eng dieses Gefühlswissen mit den sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Strukturen moderner Gesellschaften verknüpft ist und wie es sich mit ihnen wandelt.
Articles by Benno Gammerl
FZG, 2014
Dieser Artikel entwirft eine Genealogie der Mobilisierung des Gegensatzes von Sex und Gefühl durc... more Dieser Artikel entwirft eine Genealogie der Mobilisierung des Gegensatzes von Sex und Gefühl durch sexualpolitische Emanzipationsbewegungen, um die Auseinandersetzung um den affective turn in den Queer Studies und die begrifflichen Distink-tionskämpfe um Emotion und Affekt besser zu verstehen. Wir behaupten, dass sich diese an der Körper-Geist-Dichotomie abarbeiten und jeweils unterschiedlich Position beziehen. Die Schwulenbewegung der 1970er Jahre forderte die Befreiung der körperlichen Bedürfnisse und grenzte sich von der geistigen Überhöhung gleichgeschlechtlicher Liebe ab, mit der sich die Homophilen der Nachkriegszeit vom Sex distanzierten. In den 1980er Jahren warfen der sexpositive Feminismus und Teile der Lesbenbewegung ihren Vorgängerinnen vor, Sex als männliche Domäne dämonisiert und verdrängt zu haben. Seit der Jahrtausendwende kamen in den Debatten um die Anerkennung homosexueller Partner- und Elternschaften einerseits und dem Beharren auf der subversiven Kraft des Sexuellen andererseits weitere Variationen dieses Gegensatzes ins Spiel. Wir plädieren dafür, diese theoretischen und politischen Oppositionen zu historisieren und zu relativieren, ohne die treibende Kraft radikaler Alterität ganz aufzugeben.
sub\urban, 2015
Ausgehend von verschiedenen Ansätzen in der Forschung zu Gefühlen und Räumen umreißt der Artikel ... more Ausgehend von verschiedenen Ansätzen in der Forschung zu Gefühlen und Räumen umreißt der Artikel das theoretische, empirische und politische Potenzial des Spannungsfelds zwischen der affektiven Durchkreuzung geordneter Strukturen und der emotionalen Bearbeitung machtdurchwirkter Raumverhältnisse. Praktiken des urban gardening und Debatten über Gentrifizierung zeigen beispielhaft, wie Analysen der dynamischen Interaktionen zwischen Räumen und Gefühlen für eine kritische Perspektive auf Urbanität fruchtbar werden können. Die Beschäftigung mit der Körperlichkeit von Raumgefühlen und der Materialität von Gefühlsräumen bietet willkommene Gelegenheiten, nach Strategien zu suchen, die weder das beharrliche Wirken des Sozialen noch die widerständige Kraft des Materiellen in deterministischer Manier überbetonen, sondern sich stattdessen auf die ambivalenten Dynamiken und Effekte gefühlsräumlicher Prozesse konzentrieren.
Emotion, Space and Society, 2017
Brings together rules-based, practice-theoretical, psycho-analytical and affect-theoretical a... more Brings together rules-based, practice-theoretical, psycho-analytical and affect-theoretical approaches.
Feelings can undermine established differences, constitute difference, and mark, intensify or naturalise differences.
Navigating the seeming gap between the unfathomable quality of feeling and a critical analysis is key.
The polyvalent nature of feeling differently invites continued interrogations into power effects that accompany our research.
Anhand von Interviews mit Zeitzeug_innen rekonstruiert der Artikel die Perspektiven verschiedener... more Anhand von Interviews mit Zeitzeug_innen rekonstruiert der Artikel die Perspektiven verschiedener Gruppen von schwulen Männern und lesbsichen Frauen auf die Emanzipationsbewegungen der 1970er Jahre. Bewegte Beweger_innen kommen dabei ebenso zu Wort wie wohlwollende Begleiter_innen, Zaungästa und Grenzgänger.
The author first discusses possibilities and problems within oral history research on changing em... more The author first discusses possibilities and problems within oral history research on changing emotional patterns and practices. The biographical narratives of gays and lesbians allow to explore these issues as the gradual emancipation of homosexuals after 1970 altered the socio-cultural context of same-sex emotionalities. The article, then, interprets three life stories. Mrs. Fischer's narrative shows how the patterns of falling in love shifted from suddenness to step-by-step. Mr. Meyer's account is coined by the split between sexual and emotional intimacy. In this respect it differs clearly from younger Mr. Albrecht's story. These changing emotionalities are finally explained by the widening of the spaces within which same-sex feelings could be practised, displayed and performed.
Anhand von Kontaktanzeigen in lesbischen Zeitschriften vornehmlich der 1980er Jahre untersucht di... more Anhand von Kontaktanzeigen in lesbischen Zeitschriften vornehmlich der 1980er Jahre untersucht dieser Text den Wandel der Geschlechtlichkeitsmuster, die zwischenfrauliche, lesbische oder 'queere' Kostellationen prägten - zwischen androgyner Einheitlichkeit und spielerischer Mannigfaltigkeit. Anstatt Identitätsverfestigung und -verflüssigung als Gegensätze zu begreifen, betont der Artikel die Möglichkeit ihrer Gleichzeitigkeit.
Learning how to feel: Children's literature and the history of emotional socialization, 1870 - 1970, ed. by U. Frevert, P. Eitler, S. Olsen, U. Jensen, M. Pernau, D. Brückenhaus, M. Beljan, B. Gammerl, A. Laukötter, B. Hitzer, J. Plamper, J. Brauer, & J. C. Häberlen, 2014
Papers by Benno Gammerl
Emotion, Space and Society, 2017
Zur Geschichte der Sexualität im deutschsprachigen Raum seit den 1960er Jahren, 2014
Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000, 2014
Rethinking History, 2012
This themed issue intends to open up new vistas on the history of emotions. It does so with artic... more This themed issue intends to open up new vistas on the history of emotions. It does so with articles that examine community-based or spatially defined emotional styles that were simultaneously performed within larger socio-cultural contexts. Following this approach one might – for example – discern ‘Muslim’, ‘Hindu’, ‘British’ and ‘Anglo-Indian’ emotional styles within colonial South Asia around 1900 as well
European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 2009
... Terminologically, it is important here to note the difference between the word 'impe... more ... Terminologically, it is important here to note the difference between the word 'imperialist' referring to situations stamped by asymmetric ... all notes. After 1900 one can additionally identify tendencies to supplement the principle of supra-ethnic neutrality by a politics of recognition ...
Edited Books by Benno Gammerl
Berghahn, 2019
Edited by Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen, and Margrit Pernau.
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Paci... more Edited by Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen, and Margrit Pernau.
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
Book Chapters by Benno Gammerl
Encounters with emotions: Negotiating cultural differences since early modernity , 2019
In B. Gammerl, P. Nielsen, & M. Pernau (Eds.), Encounters with emotions: Negotiating cultural dif... more In B. Gammerl, P. Nielsen, & M. Pernau (Eds.), Encounters with emotions: Negotiating cultural differences since early modernity (pp. 1-35). New York: Berghahn.
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Books by Benno Gammerl
Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, and Uffa Jensen: Introduction
1: Uffa Jensen: Mrs Gaskell's Anxiety
2: Stephanie Olsen: Dickon's Trust
3: Margrit Pernau: Ashgari's Piety
4: Daniel Brückenhaus: Ralph's Compassion
5: Pascal Eitler: Doctor Dolittle's Empathy
6: Magdalena Beljan and Benno Gammerl: Wendy's Love
7: Ute Frevert: Piggy's Shame
8: Anja Laukötter: Lebrac's Pain
9: Bettina Hitzer: Jim Button's Fear
10: Jan Plamper: Ivan's Bravery
11: Juliane Brauer: Heidi's Homesickness
12: Joachim C. Häberlen: Ingrid's Boredom
Margrit Pernau: Epilogue: Translating Books, Translating Emotions
Articles by Benno Gammerl
Feelings can undermine established differences, constitute difference, and mark, intensify or naturalise differences.
Navigating the seeming gap between the unfathomable quality of feeling and a critical analysis is key.
The polyvalent nature of feeling differently invites continued interrogations into power effects that accompany our research.
Papers by Benno Gammerl
Edited Books by Benno Gammerl
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
Book Chapters by Benno Gammerl
Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, and Uffa Jensen: Introduction
1: Uffa Jensen: Mrs Gaskell's Anxiety
2: Stephanie Olsen: Dickon's Trust
3: Margrit Pernau: Ashgari's Piety
4: Daniel Brückenhaus: Ralph's Compassion
5: Pascal Eitler: Doctor Dolittle's Empathy
6: Magdalena Beljan and Benno Gammerl: Wendy's Love
7: Ute Frevert: Piggy's Shame
8: Anja Laukötter: Lebrac's Pain
9: Bettina Hitzer: Jim Button's Fear
10: Jan Plamper: Ivan's Bravery
11: Juliane Brauer: Heidi's Homesickness
12: Joachim C. Häberlen: Ingrid's Boredom
Margrit Pernau: Epilogue: Translating Books, Translating Emotions
Feelings can undermine established differences, constitute difference, and mark, intensify or naturalise differences.
Navigating the seeming gap between the unfathomable quality of feeling and a critical analysis is key.
The polyvalent nature of feeling differently invites continued interrogations into power effects that accompany our research.
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.