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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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Abstract

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
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gaenger, Stefanie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language IMPERIAL; SCIENCE Multiple languages History Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21287