Gaenger, Stefanie (2017). Circulation: reflections on circularity, entity, and liquidity in the language of global history. J. Glob. Hist., 12 (3). S. 303 - 319. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1740-0236
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Circulation' is not only among the most widely used words in the language of global history; it is also among the most erratically employed. Amorphous in its usages and protean in its semantics, circulation' has come to describe any sort of movement: from circular movement and passage along the vessels of closed systems to, paradoxically, open-ended, unidirectional dissemination. This article asks how circulation' became prominent metaphorically in global history; it seeks to understand the word's appeal and the consequences of its ascendancy. It argues that the popularity of circulation' is attributable to a merger of two of its qualities: its seeming untainted-ness' and openness, on the one hand, and on the other, how its older, medical and economic, meanings resonate in its usages, allowing it to convey a sense of entity (independent existence) for the terrain in which circulation' occurs, and a sense of directedness, self-reliance, and liquidity' for the movements it describes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-212878 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S174002281700016X | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | J. Glob. Hist. | ||||||||
Volume: | 12 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 303 - 319 | ||||||||
Date: | 2017 | ||||||||
Publisher: | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | CAMBRIDGE | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1740-0236 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21287 |
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