Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
The International Congresses of Criminal Anthropology
| Content Provider | Hyper Articles en Ligne (HAL) |
|---|---|
| Author | Kaluszynski, Martine |
| Abstract | International congresses took on particular importance at the end of the nineteenth century. Numerous, diverse, and varied, these forums for communication, legitimacy, and power became essential for ideas, movements, and individuals as places to exchange views and, especially, to make their existence known. What were these congresses about? Were they primarily about curiosity, necessity, legitimacy, gaining political advantage--or about research ?The advantages of international congresses are so numerous and varied that each involves its own set of motivations. Through this case study of the international congresses of criminal anthropology — an analysis requisite to an understanding of the internal and external life and evolution of an intellectual movement — I will identify the various facets of these congresses and the stakes involved in their content, form and attendance. I will also demonstrate the structuring role that these forums played, both nationally and internationally, in the development of the discipline and even more so in the development of a certain notion of a juridical “Europe” and the foundations of a juridical “international. |
| Ending Page | 316 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 301 |
| File Format | |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Date | 2006-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | criminology-history-19th century-criminals-international perspective Histoire-sociologie-criminologie-perspective comparatiste-criminels-XIXème siècle-Europe shs Humanities and Social Sciences History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences Political science Sociology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
