How Has the Practice of Comparing Evolved Over Time?

Angelika Epple

Research has shown that the practice of comparing is determined more by the actors doing the comparing than by the phenomena being compared. In this video, focusing on Cuba in the long nineteenth century, ANGELIKA EPPLE explores how comparisons based on race and skin color evolved in parallel with the changing makeup of that society. With contemporary discourse witnessing an upsurge in race-based comparisons keen to present themselves as natural, Epple’s work importantly foregrounds the fact that they are, in reality, historical and constructed.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10771

Researcher

Angelika Epple is a Professor of History and Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Diversity at Bielefeld University. A spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center, Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World, Epple’s main areas of interest include the history of globalizations, the Americas as space of entanglement(s) and the theory of history. Epple has held numerous advisory and editorial roles including at the journals Neue Politische Literatur (NPL) and Localities, based in Busan, South Korea.

University of Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld)

Original Publication

Die Welt beobachten - Praktiken des Vergleichens

Angelika Epple,

Walter Erhart

Published in 2015

Practices of Comparing. A New Research Agenda Between Typological and Historical Approaches

Angelika Epple,

Walter Erhart

Published in 2020

Calling for a Practice Turn in Global History: Practices as Drivers of Globalization/s

Angelika Epple

Published in 2018

Citation

Angelika Epple,

Latest Thinking,

How Has the Practice of Comparing Evolved Over Time?,

https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10771,

2015

Credits:

© Angelika Epple

and Latest Thinking

This work is licensed under CC-BY 4.0