Historyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/59912024-03-28T17:22:27Z2024-03-28T17:22:27ZEphemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean PassageGreene, Elizabeth S.Leidwanger, JustinRepola, Leopoldohttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/155972022-01-30T01:23:07Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZEphemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage
Greene, Elizabeth S.; Leidwanger, Justin; Repola, Leopoldo
The central Mediterranean today marks one of the most active and dangerous routes for sea crossings to Europe, due in no small part to border regimes designed to prevent the mobilities that have defined these waters from earliest antiquity. This article considers initial results of fieldwork undertaken to document and make visible the material culture of contemporary vessels used to carry forced and undocumented migrants to southeast Sicily over the past decade. These former fishing craft reveal structural and spatial adaptations to facilitate a different traffic, reflected also in items left behind when the boats were intercepted. Archaeology helps to embed these journeys within long-term frameworks of connectivity and to situate their ephemeral traces alongside more traditional notions of Mediterranean maritime heritage. In a region that celebrates its deep connections to the sea, care for the materiality of these contemporary mobilities foregrounds human experiences, while serving goals of advocacy, empowerment, and social justice amid global change.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZOral history and the epistemology of testimonyKenyon, Timhttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/151802021-10-04T01:22:04Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZOral history and the epistemology of testimony
Kenyon, Tim
Social epistemology has paid little attention to oral historiography as a source of expert insight into the credibility of testimony. One extant suggestion, however, is that oral historians treat testimony with a default trust reflecting a standing warrant for accepting testimony. The view that there is such a standing warrant is sometimes known as the Acceptance Principle for Testimony (APT). I argue that the practices of oral historians do not count in support of APT, all in all. Experts have commonly described oral traditions as oriented towards political, cultural and entertainment ends, and not only—or not even—towards an accurate depiction of past events. Even when accuracy is the emphasis, many historians of oral tradition do not trust such testimony as APT would suggest; the importance of gathering supporting evidence is a consistent emphasis. Yet oral historiography, both of traditions and more generally, does hold out lessons for the epistemology of testimony, implicating a wider range of social and contextual factors than the philosophical literature might otherwise reflect. Perhaps most importantly, it confirms the critical epistemological role of the audience in interpreting testimony and actively constructing testimonial contexts, a point that extends quite naturally to common testimonial exchanges.
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z“Will You Give me Your Opinion?”: Mundane Beauty in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 1860–75Clark, Jessica P.http://hdl.handle.net/10464/146092021-08-12T02:00:18Z2019-01-01T00:00:00Z“Will You Give me Your Opinion?”: Mundane Beauty in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 1860–75
Clark, Jessica P.
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