Session (ESSHC Belfast 2018), Network ‘Family and demography’
Call for papers
Neighborhood and social and family ties
Historiography of social ties in pre-industrial societies or in the process of industrialization has long focused on family and forms of solidarity within this group. The elementary form of these ties (and their solidarities) is expressed through the household and the different forms of co-residence.
Historical demography has studied extensively, in the framework of Laslett’s perspective and its typology, the different ways of living together within the nuclear family or within the extended family. For this reason the historians have used largely censuses and the reconstitution of the families. Historians have also extensively explored another part of social relations through the study of kinship, analyzing forms of solidarity that go beyond co-residence. For that they used mainly the reconstitution of genealogies.
But, a fundamental space for social ties has been little studied: the neighborhood. It may be due to the difficulty to find the sources ad hoc. This perspective of analysis seems very promising to understand the systems of relations and solidarities in both urban and rural contexts. This involves both parents and non-relatives is likely to play a decisive role on a daily basis. Unlike the kinship described by the genealogy, which can only be a "theoretical" relationship, without actual content, the neighborhood means regular contacts in which links and solidarities can be activated.
The session is opened to all proposals covering the period from Middle Age to 20th cent. This can be a historiographic reflection favoring geographical and temporal comparatism or case studies.
Contact : Fabrice Boudjaaba (CNRS)
[email protected]
Historical demography has studied extensively, in the framework of Laslett’s perspective and its typology, the different ways of living together within the nuclear family or within the extended family. For this reason the historians have used largely censuses and the reconstitution of the families. Historians have also extensively explored another part of social relations through the study of kinship, analyzing forms of solidarity that go beyond co-residence. For that they used mainly the reconstitution of genealogies.
But, a fundamental space for social ties has been little studied: the neighborhood. It may be due to the difficulty to find the sources ad hoc. This perspective of analysis seems very promising to understand the systems of relations and solidarities in both urban and rural contexts. This involves both parents and non-relatives is likely to play a decisive role on a daily basis. Unlike the kinship described by the genealogy, which can only be a "theoretical" relationship, without actual content, the neighborhood means regular contacts in which links and solidarities can be activated.
The session is opened to all proposals covering the period from Middle Age to 20th cent. This can be a historiographic reflection favoring geographical and temporal comparatism or case studies.
Contact : Fabrice Boudjaaba (CNRS)
[email protected]
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