Books by Margrit Pernau
Cambridge University Press, 2021
This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspectiv... more This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both. Time was often imagined as a movement from the past to the future: the past is gone and the future not yet here. Only present-day subjects could establish relations to other times, recovering history as well as imagining and anticipating the future. In a movement paralleling the emphasis on the porous self, constituted by emotions situated not inside but between subjects, this Element argues for a porous present, which is open to the intervention of ghosts coming from the past and from the future. What needs investigating is the flow between times as much as the creation of boundaries between them, which first banishes the ghosts and then denies their existence. Emotions are the most important way through which subjects situate and understand themselves in time.
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Oxford University Press, 2019
With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South A... more With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I. Situating the prevalent experiences, interpretations, and practices of emotions of the time within the context of the major political events of colonial India, Pernau goes beyond the dominant narrative of colonial modernity and its fixation with discipline and restrain, and traces the contemporary transformation from a balance in emotions to the resurgence of fervor.
The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.
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Oxford University Press, 2013
This book investigates the history of the Muslim communities in Delhi from the conquest of the ci... more This book investigates the history of the Muslim communities in Delhi from the conquest of the city by Lord Lake in 1803 to the end of the First World War. It is based on a large range of sources in English, Urdu, and Persian—from government records to novels, from Sufi writings and fatwas to genealogies, from maps to miniatures, from handwritten newsletters to women’s journals. The book follows two main questions. One, Muslims have long been defined, first and foremost, by their religious identity. This study takes religion not as a given but asks about the universe of alternative identities—gender, territorial, class, descent, and language, which all shape a person’s sense of belonging to a specific community. It is only the interaction between the different identities, the book argues, which permits a re-evaluation of religious identity and a response to the question of when and under what circumstances it gains or loses predominance. Two, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the category of ashraf, marking out the respectable families, brought together the nobility and the educated and distinguished them from the trading communities, which were classified under the common people. This changed from the middle of the century: the new ashraf distinguished themselves not only from the commoners but also the nobility, held responsible for the disaster of 1857. At the same time, their new emphasis on work and achievement brought them nearer to the merchants. Thus the two-tiered social structure gave way to a three-tiered one, and the ashraf were transformed into middle classes.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011
Nationale Grenzen prägen heute nicht mehr die Erfahrungswelt der Europäer. Durch diese Tendenz zu... more Nationale Grenzen prägen heute nicht mehr die Erfahrungswelt der Europäer. Durch diese Tendenz zur Transnationalität verliert auch die Ausrichtung der Geschichtswissenschaft an der Nation und ihren Grenzen viel von ihrer Selbstverständlichkeit. Anstelle der in sich abgeschlossenen Veranstaltungen zur deutschen, französischen oder britischen, seltener zur europäischen Geschichte, sehen sich Studierende mit Angeboten konfrontiert, die entweder Regionen in den Blick nehmen oder über den nationalen Rahmen hinausweisen. Transnationale Geschichte ist ein anspruchsvoller Zugang, der hohe Anforderungen an die Selbstreflexion des Historikers stellt. Margrit Pernaus Einführung in die transnationale Geschichte leistet hier Hilfestellung und schlägt Schneisen durch das mittlerweile recht unübersichtlich gewordene Theorieangebot. Grundkurs Neue Geschichte • kompakte Darstellung komplexer Theorien • ausführliche Erläuterung von Problemstellungen • mit vielen illustrierenden Beispielen
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008
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Oxford University Press, 2006
This volume explores the history of the Delhi college - considered the centre of Delhi Renaissanc... more This volume explores the history of the Delhi college - considered the centre of Delhi Renaissance and the meeting ground between British and Oriental culture before 1857 - against the background of both traditional scholarship and the British education policy in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Manohar, 2000
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Edited Books by Margrit Pernau
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.
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Nyogi Books, 2018
The monsoon is the season of pouring rain and intense emotions. Through a series of evocative ess... more The monsoon is the season of pouring rain and intense emotions. Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worlds of poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music, and medicine, this lavishly illustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to the present.
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Geschichte und Gesellschaft 44(1), 2018
This special issue gives an overview over the most important topics which are presently debated i... more This special issue gives an overview over the most important topics which are presently debated in the history of concepts. It lays out the challenges faced by the approach and offers suggestions on how to meet them. The introduction proceeds in three steps. First it traces the globalization of the history of concepts and discusses the possibilities for a “Global history of basic concepts.” It then outlines how the history of concepts has moved beyond the thematic field of the “Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe,” and integrated new topics – in politics and temporality, but also in the natural sciences, andwith reference to the body, the senses and emotions. It finally discusses new methodological challenges, focusing on digital humanities and non-verbal media and sources.
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edited with Dominic Sachsenmaier (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)
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Table of Contents
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
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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?
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very... more At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these words were self-evident. This is where Civilizing Emotions intervenes, tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilization and thus adding a level of self-reflexivity to the present debates. Unlike previous histories, Civilizing Emotions takes a global perspective, highlighting the roles of civility and civilization in the creation of a new and hierarchized global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements with the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries.
Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the creation of a new global order in the nineteenth century. Civilizing Emotions explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. The study is a contribution to the history of emotions, to global history, and to the history of concepts, three rapidly developing and innovative research areas which are here being brought together for the first time.
Authors: Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim, Orit Bashkin, Christian Bailey, Oleg Benesch, Jan Ifversen, Mana Kia, Rochona Majumdar, Angelika C. Messner, Myoung-kyu Park, Emmanuelle Saada, Mohinder Singh, and Einar Wigen
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edited with Yunus Jaffery (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009)
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edited with Monica Juneja (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2008)
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edited with Mushirul Hasan (New Delhi: Manohar, 2005)
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C.F. Andrews, edited with Hasan Mushirul (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)
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edited with Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (New Delhi: Sage. 2003)
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Articles by Margrit Pernau
Art History and Transculturation: Celebrating the Scholarly Worlds and Works of Monica Juneja, 2021
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/emotions-and-temporalities/AD3243EC53C028E39286F3BE49BA8806
The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.
Edited Books by 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.
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 were at the core of the practices linked to the creation of a new global order in the nineteenth century. Civilizing Emotions explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. The study is a contribution to the history of emotions, to global history, and to the history of concepts, three rapidly developing and innovative research areas which are here being brought together for the first time.
Authors: Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim, Orit Bashkin, Christian Bailey, Oleg Benesch, Jan Ifversen, Mana Kia, Rochona Majumdar, Angelika C. Messner, Myoung-kyu Park, Emmanuelle Saada, Mohinder Singh, and Einar Wigen
Articles by Margrit Pernau
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/emotions-and-temporalities/AD3243EC53C028E39286F3BE49BA8806
The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.
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.
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 were at the core of the practices linked to the creation of a new global order in the nineteenth century. Civilizing Emotions explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. The study is a contribution to the history of emotions, to global history, and to the history of concepts, three rapidly developing and innovative research areas which are here being brought together for the first time.
Authors: Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim, Orit Bashkin, Christian Bailey, Oleg Benesch, Jan Ifversen, Mana Kia, Rochona Majumdar, Angelika C. Messner, Myoung-kyu Park, Emmanuelle Saada, Mohinder Singh, and Einar Wigen
This article introduces a collection of articles focusing on emotions in South Asia, extending from the classical period to the present and bringing together a number of disciplines, from literary and religious studies, to history, anthropology, and sociology. It provides an overview over the work that has been done in the field of emotion studies in the last decade with specific reference to South Asia. From there, it questions the relationship between theoretical and methodological reflections on how to study emotions, which until now have been developed mainly on the basis of European and American materials, and the study of South Asian emotions. Three topics stand at the core of the debate: the contribution of emotion to the creation of selves and communities; their place between the micro and the macro level; and finally the role of the non-representational in the study of emotions.
On one level this can be read as a straightforward history of concepts and temporalities. At another level, the article contributes to the ongoing debate about the past, which is simultaneously absent and hauntingly present. It follows Reinhart Koselleck to India where he never went and listens to the conversations between him and Saiyid Ahmad Khan, who died before Koselleck was born, thus blurring the lines not only between the past and the present, but also between the emic and the etic, and between historians and those they study. Like any meaningful encounter, it transforms its participants and the concepts with which they entered the dialogue.
Compassion, the article argues, is a social emotion, but not necessarily an unequivocally benign emotion. It serves to construct a community and to negotiate its boundaries, but it is also a tool of exclusion and helps fortifying the communities’ internal hierarchies. The perception of the pain of others is as unequally distributed as the practices for its alleviation.