The history and development of practices of comparing
Channel: Latest Thinking
Date: 2019-11-07

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Research has shown that the practice of comparing is determined more by the actors doing the comparing than by the phenomena being compared. 
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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.
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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. 

About the author:
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 globalization, the Americas as space of entanglement(s) and the theory of history.
More Info:
http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/aepple/

This LT Publication is divided into the following chapters:

0:00 Question
1:18 Method
3:16  Findings
6:25 Relevance
7:31 Outlook