The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences

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The International Handbook of the Human Sciences will tentatively be divided into 10 sections based on key discussions/themes in the field, led by internationally recognised researchers and writers on academic integrity.  This proposal lists 12 possible sections of between 8-12 chapters in each section, a possible 65 chapters of between 8,000-10,000 words in each chapter. Every section editor will be a long-established colleague and peer. Ideas for sections, section editors and some chapters are tentatively indicated below:

1.      Defining the human sciences (Ian Hunter, Australia, Uni of Queensland) 11 chapters

a.      Critique, and the history of theory (Ian Hunter)

b.      Enlightenment and Modernity (Gary Wickham, Aust., Murdoch University)

c.      Does reflexivity separate the human sciences from the natural sciences? (Roger Smith, c/o Lancaster University)

d.      The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Greg Myers, Lancaster University)

e.      Social histories of knowledge (Peter Burke, Emmanuel College Boston)

f.       Self / Personhood (Elwin Hofman, KU Leuven Belgium)

g.      Conduct (Paul du Gay, University of Copenhagen)

h.      Intellectual fields: science and culture (Tony Bennett, Aust., Uni of Western Sydney)

i.       Human sciences and the global south (Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney)

j.       Knowledge and power in the human sciences

k.      Current issues in linguistic theory: N Chomsky ? 1988, 7-17

 

2.   Categories in the history of human sciences (Section Editor: Ian Hacking, College de France) 9 chapters

a.      ?Making up? categories of people (Ian Hacking, College de France)

b.      Ideas and Politics (Thomas Osborn, UK, University of Bristol)

c.      Humanities (Martin Aidnik, Tallin University, Estonia)

d.      History of Sexuality (Stuart Elder, University of Warwick: Theory, Culture and Society, 2018

e.      Cultural and historical geography (Veronica della Dora, Uni of Bristol)

f.       Habitus: Mauss and Bourdieu

g.      Constructing human and social subjects (Gregory Hollin, UK, University of Nottingham)

h.      Genealogy/history of the present (Jeffrey Minson, University of California)

i.       Power and resistance (Ausgar Allen, Roy Goddard, University of Sheffield)

 

2.      History of Statistics (Section editor: Roger Smith, co Lancaster University) 6 chapters

a.      How should we do the history of statistics? (Ian Hacking, The Foucault Effect eds. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller eds, 1991, 181-196

b.      The enlightenment and statistics (Roy Porter)

c.      How to make things which hold together: Social science, statistics and the state (Alain Desrosi?res, 1990)

d.      Science in the archives: pasts, presents, futures (Lorainne Daston, University of Chicago)

e.      Governing by numbers (Ian Hacking, College de France)

f.       Change or mutation? Reflections on the foundations of contemporary science (T Shinn: Social Science Information, 1999)

 

5. Context and theory (Section editor: Paul du Gay, University of Copenhagen) 10 chapters

a.      The civilizing process (Paul Du Gay)

b.      Histories of legal theory (Daniel Chernilo, Universidad Diego Portales. Visiting Professor, Loughborough University)

c.      The English national character: the history of an idea (Peter Mandler: 2006

d.      Culture and Consumption (Liz McFall, UK,  Open University)

e.      History of science/cultural hegemony (Pietro Omoeleo, Max Blanck Institute, Berlin)

f.       Science and imperialism (Douglas Lorimer, UK)

g.      Post-colonial Europe (Monika Bobako, Adam Mickiewicz, Poland)

h.      Postcolonial penality: Liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947, M. Brown, Theoretical Criminology, 2017

i.       The Evolutionary Origins of Human Political Systems (Herbert Gintis, Carel van Schaik, and Christopher Boehm: Current Anthropology 56, 3, June 2015, 327-353)

 

6.   Anthropology, ethnography and ethnology (Section Editor: Tony Bennett, Aust., Uni of Western Sydney;) 12 chapters

a.      Race, culture, and evolution: reflections on the history of anthropology (G. Stocking: 1982) 

b.      The history of anthropology: Where, whence, whither? (GW Stocking Jr: Journal of the History of the Behavioral, 1966).

c.      The past as it lives now: an anthropology of colonial legacies (B De L'Estoile: Social Anthropology, 2008)

d.      The sins of the fathers: British anthropology and African colonial administration (H. Kuklick - Research in Sociology of Knowledge: Sciences and Art, 1978)

e.      Liberal government and the practical history of anthropology (Tony Bennett: History and Anthropology Journal Vol 25, 2014 - Issue 2: Anthropology, Collecting and Colonial Governmentalities)

f.       Historicity and ethnography (Tomomi J Emoto, Japan?)

g.      Ethnology and psychology (Gustav Johoda, UK, University of Strathclyde)

h.      Histories of anthropology (Vassos Argyrou, UK University of Hull, Veronika Lipphardt, Germany, University College, Frieberg

i.       Anthropology and the Southern Question (Claudia Castelo, Uni of Lisbon, Portugul)

j.       Anthropological history of the early 21st century (Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Uni of Olso)

k.      A mission to civilize: the republican idea of empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Alice L. Conklin 1997: citeulike:10058147)

l.       Margaret Mead Amongst the Natives of Great Britain (Peter Mandler: Past & Present, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 August 2009, Pages 195?233)

 

7.   Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology (Section Editor: Amanda Kearney, Aust., Uni of New South Wales) 11 chapters

a.      The Hidden History of a Third of the World: the Collective Biography of Australian and International    Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project: Matthew Spriggs, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 27, 1, 2017

b.      History and Indigenous cultural artefacts (Amanda Kearney, Uni of NSW,)

c.      The origins of culture history in prehistoric archaeology: rethinking plausibility and disciplinary tradition: T. Murray, World Archaeology, 2017, 49, 2, 187-197.

d.      Introduction to Geographic and Spatial Approaches in the History of Archaeology: N. Gupta, B K Means,,Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 25, 2, 2015

e.      Hitting two birds with one stone: An afterword on archeology and the history of science: M. Brusius, History of Science, Sept 2017, Vol. 55 Issue 3, 383-391

f.       Geographies of Governmentalities (M. Huxley: Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography, JW. Crampton, S Elden eds, 183-204)

g.      Archaeology and Modem Climate Change: Friesen, T. Max, Canadian Journal of Archaeology. 2018, Vol. 42,1, 28-37

h.      A Cosmopolitan History of Archaeology: The Olov Janse Case: A Källén, J Hegardt, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Vol 24, 2014

i.       The Infertile Crescent Revisited: A Case Study for the History of Archaeology (J Bracewell: Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Vol 25, 2, 2015

j.       Archaeology and the Anxiety of Loss: Effacing Preservation from the History of Renaissance Rome (D Karmon: American Journal of Archaeology, 115, 2,159-174

k.      Building colonial histories: the archaeology of the Menzies Centre site, Hobart: P Crook. R McCay, P Kostaglou, Australasian Historical Archaeology. 33:27-36

 

8.  Historical Sociology (Section Editors: Robert van Krieken, Australia, University of Sydney; Stephen Mennell, Uni of Leicester) 9 chapters

a.      History of sociology (Stephen Turner, Uni of South Florida, US)

b.      Toward a transnational history of the social sciences: Johan Heilbron, N Guilhot, L Jeanpierrem, 2008

c.      National traditions in the social sciences

d.      Norbert Elias: An Outsider Full of Unprejudiced Insight (Wolf Lepenies: New German Critique, 1978)

e.      History, politics and power

f.       Sociology of crowds (Christian Borch, Copenhagan Business School)

g.      The sociology of knowledge (Steve Woolgar, Steve Fuller)

h.      Knowledge society (Andrea Cerroni, University of Milan)

i.       On the appearance of autism (Bonnie Evans, UK, Kings College London)

 

9.  Governing Individuals and Societies (Section Editor: Mitchell Dean, Copenhagen Business School) 9 chapters

a.      The liberal state and self-governing individuals (Michell Dean)

b.      Globalisation and the individual (William Walters, Carlton University, Ottawa)

c.      Rationalities of rule (XXX)

d.      Sovereignty, and powers of life and death (XXX)

e.      Exceptionalism and authoritarianism (XXX)

f.       Calculable minds and manageable individuals (Nickolas Rose: History of the human sciences, 1988)

g.      Governing Science (Steve Fuller)

h.      Governing through crime (Jonathon Simon, University of Chicago)       

i.       Global biopolitics and the history of world health (A. Bashford: History of the Human Sciences: February 1, 2006)

 

10.  Histories of Economics (Section Editor: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics) 8 chapters

a.      The philosophical bases of institutionalist economics (Philip Mirowski: Economics and Hermeneutics, ed. Don Lavoie, 2005)

b.      Does Economics Have a Useful Past? (George J. Stigler: History of Political Economy, 1969, 1 (2), 217-230

c.      Society, economy and State effect (Timothy Mitchell: State/Culture. State-Formation After the Cultural Turn, ed. George Steinmetz, pp. 76-97)

d.      Theories of markets and theories of society (M Fourcade: American Behavioral Scientist, 2007)

e.      Models, stories and the economic world (Mary Morgan: Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001

f.       Economic History and Economics (Robert M. Solow, The American Economic Review, Vol. 75, No. 2, 1985, 328-331)

g.      Breaking Away: History of Economics as History of Science (M Schabas: History of Political Economy, 24 (1), 1992: 187-203.

h.      A Short History of Economics As a Moral Science (James E. Alvey: Journal of Markets & Morality 2, 1,  1999, 53-73.

11.  Psychology (Section editor: Nikolas Rose, UK, Kings College Cambridge) 9 chapters

a.      Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Roger Smith: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C 36, 1, 2005,  55-94

b.      Current debates in the history of psychology (Nikolas Rose, UK)

c.      Community psychology and decolonising practices (Mohammed Seedat, South Africa, Uni of SA)

d.      Psychology and science (Tom Quick, Independent scholar)

e.      Psychopathy (Canada, University of Alberta)

f.       Psychology and commerce (David Keller, Germany, Universitat zu Lubeck)

g.      Psychology and the Southern Question (Wahbie Long, South Africa, University of Cape Town)

h.      The reflexivity of cognitive science: the scientist as model of human nature (J Cohen-Cole: History of the Human Sciences, 2005)

i.       Does the history of psychology have a subject? (Roger Smith: History of the Human Sciences, October 1, 1988)

 

12.   Psychiatry (Section editors: Stephen Garton, Australia, University of Sydney; Matt Efytche, UK, University of Essex; Gavin Miller, Glasgow University) 10 chapters

 

a.      Mapping the relations between history and history of science: the case of the history of psychiatry: L. Vasia, Rethinking History, 21, 4, 606-617, 2017

b.      Ancient philosophers on mental illness: M Ahonen, History of Psychiatry. October 9, 2018

c.      The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (Rachel Cooper, Lancaster Uni)

d.      Transcultural psychiatry (Ivan Crozier, Uni of Newcastle, Australia)

e.      Psychotherapy (Sarah Marks, UK, Birkbeck College Uni of London)

f.       Psychoanalysis (Silvana Veto, Chile, Uni Andres, Bello; Marcelo Sanchez, Chile, Uni de Chile)

g.      Eugenics and science in Peru (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru)

h.      Therapeutic culture and authenticity (Roger Foster, Manhattan Community College)

i.       The Aboriginal child?s mind (David Robertson, Princeton University, USA)

j.       Childhood and Normality (Katie Wright, Australia, La Trobe University

 

 

13. Tendencies in post-war social sciences (Series editor ?

a.      The Strange Silence of Political Theory (J.C. Isaac: Political Theory,  November 1, 1995)

b.      Riding natural scientists' coattails onto the endless frontier: The SSRC and the quest for scientific legitimacy (Mark Solovey: The History of the Behavioral Sciences, September 2004)

c.      ?Hypothetical machines?. The science fiction dreams of Cold War social science (R Lemov: Isis, 2010)

d.      Beyond behaviorism: On the automaticity of higher mental processes (Bargh, John A., Ferguson, Melissa J.: Psychological Bulletin, Vol 126(6), Nov 2000, 925-945)

 

 

 

As for all reference works, chapters will be supported by relevant illustrations, tables, figures, glossaries. The handbook will be a useful reference resource for practitioners/instructors in higher education and researchers and graduate students exploring the diverse range of work in the history of human sciences. The most significant benefit of the handbook will be to provide this overview in one location.