74 research outputs found
Political Regimes and Sovereign Credit Risk in Europe, 1750-1913
This article uses a new panel data set to perform a statistical analysis of political regimes and sovereign credit risk in Europe from 1750 to 1913. Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. Panel regressions indicate that centralized and?or limited regimes were associated with significant improvements in credit risk relative to fragmented and absolutist ones. Structural break tests also reveal close relationships between major turning points in yield series and political transformations
Sounding Situated Knowledges - Echo in Archaeoacoustics
This article proposes that feminist epistemologies via Donna Haraway's āSituated Knowledgesā can be productively brought to bear upon theories of sonic knowledge production, as āsounding situated knowledges.ā Sounding situated knowledges re-reads debates around the ānature of soundā with a Harawayan notion of the ānatureculture of sound.ā This aims to disrupt a traditional subject-object relation which I argue has perpetuated a pervasive āsonic naturalismā in sound studies. The emerging field of archaeoacoustics (acoustic archaeology), which examines the role of sound in human behaviour in archaeology, is theorized as an opening with potentially profound consequences for sonic knowledge production which are not currently being realized. The echo is conceived as a material-semiotic articulation, which akin to Haraway's infamous cyborg, serves as a feminist figuration which enables this renegotiation. Archaeoacoustics research, read following Haraway both reflectively and diffractively, is understood as a critical juncture for sound studies which exposes the necessity of both embodiedness and situatedness for sonic knowledge production. Given the potential opened up by archaeoacoustics through the figure of echo, a critical renegotiation of the subject-object relation in sound studies is suggested as central in further developing theories of sonic knowledge production
- ā¦