Maria Boletsi

Carolyn Birdsall

Pieter Verstraete

Itay Sapir

Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities is a collection of original essays proposing a fresh examination of epistemological questions relevant to scholars in any discipline of the humanities. Is objective knowledge still a viable ideal? Can art produce or express knowledge of any kind? Is the body a promising medium for a knowledge less abstract or logocentric than the kind Western culture has favoured so far? How are epistemological regimes maintained with the use of established linguistic tropes? Is knowledge to be resisted or employed as a tool of resistance? Distinguished as well as young, emerging scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, comparative literature, musicology and art theory discuss concrete case studies in which these questions arise. The essays share a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches and the close analysis of cultural objects, and refuse to take for granted the conventional methodologies that often guide research projects in their respective fields. The Inside Knowledge volume stages encounters between different ways of knowing, which contribute to an interdiciplinary understanding of the concept of knowledge and of epistemological questions in the humanities.

(un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities

Inside Knowledge

Christine Van Everbroeck

In het boek "Verminkte stilte" gaan Pieter Verstraete en Christine Van Everbroeck op zoek naar de impact van de Eerste Wereldoorlog op het lichaam en de geest van de Belgische soldaat. Aan de hand van onontgonnen archieven, persoonlijke documenten en bestaande historische overzichten reconstrueren ze welke initiatieven werden genomen om de Belgische invalide soldaten tijdens en vlak na de Eerste Wereldoorlog te re-integreren in het leger en de samenleving. Het resultaat is een aangrijpend en ontluisterend verhaal waarin de Groote Oorlog vanuit een onbekende hoek wordt benaderd. Pieter Verstraete is als docent Historische Pedagogiek verbonden aan de Onderzoekseenheid Educatie, Cultuur en Samenleving van de KU Leuven. Christine Van Everbroeck is Doctor in de Geschiedenis. Zij is directeur ad interim van het Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis.

De Belgische invalide soldaten van de Groote Oorlog

Verminkte stilte

Idesbald Goddeeris

Kim Christiaens

Missionaries have been subject to academic and societal debate. Some scholars highlight their contribution to the spread of modernity and development among local societies, whereas others question their motives and emphasise their inseparable connection with colonialism. In this volume, fifteen authors – from both Europe and the Global South – address these often polemical positions by focusing on education, one of the most prominent fields in which missionaries have been active. They elaborate on Protestantism as well as Catholicism, work with cases from the 18th to the 21st century, and cover different colonial empires in Asia and Africa. The volume introduces new angles, such as gender, the agency of the local population, and the perspective of the child.

Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives

Missionary Education

Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde

Geert Thyssen

Frederik Herman

Angelo Van Gorp

This volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and critical light on the historiography of education, on issues of de-/colonization, on the historical development of the educational sciences and on the potentiality attached to the use of new and challenging source material.

Reconfiguring Contemporary Histories of Education

Folds of Past, Present and Future

How can one write the history of disability, and what are the consequences for the disabled themselves? This is the key question that Pieter Verstraete addresses in this pioneering book that tries to rethink the possible bonds between disability, history and politics. Since the 1990’s the concept of disability has gained in prominence. Perhaps more than in other branches of historical enquiry, disability historians have attributed a crucial place to the notion ‘identity’. Re-cently, however, the suitability of identity for the realization of libera-ting and emancipatory politics for people with disabilities has been questioned. This book aims to incorporate some of the critical approaches towards identity and to suggest a complementary connection between history and political reform.

Reconnecting History, Identity and Politics

In the Shadow of Disability

Pamela Karantonis

Francesca Placanica

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody the principles of postmodern thinking in her work, through vocality. She re-defined the limits of composition and challenged theories of the authorship of the musical score. This volume celebrates her unorthodox path through musical landscapes, including her approach to performance practice, gender performativity, vocal pedagogy and the culturally-determined borders of art music, the concert stage, the popular LP and the opera industry of her times. The collection features primary documentation-some published in English for the first time-of Berberian’s engagement with the philosophy of voice, new music, early music, pop, jazz, vocal experimentation and technology that has come to influence the next generation of singers such as Theo Bleckmann, Susan Botti, Joan La Barbara, Rinde Eckert Meredith Monk, Carol Plantamura, Candace Smith and Pamela Z. Hence, this timely anthology marks an end to the long period of silence about Cathy Berberian’s championing of a radical rethinking of the musical past through a reclaiming of the voice as a multifaceted phenomenon. With a Foreword by Susan McClary.

Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

Jan Schmidt

Rajesh Heynickx

Luc Verpoest

Leen Engelen

Pieter Uyttenhove

The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.

Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform

Revival After the Great War

Pieter Verstraete

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