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Daniel R Curtis
I am writing a new book with AUP entitled "Acclimatising to Epidemic Disease in the Premodern Low Countries: Communities and Inequalities"
Previously, I have contributed to three books.
The latest written with Dr. Qijun Han "Infectious Inequalities: Epidemics, Trust and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema" is available open access at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52017.
I have another one written with an assortment of colleagues, "Disasters and History: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies", which is also accessible open access at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/disasters-and-history/0E0A126BFA23BFA416D8AABC75014D59.
My first book, "Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements", has an extended preview available at https://www.routledge.com/Coping-with-Crisis-The-Resilience-and-Vulnerability-of-Pre-Industrial/Curtis/p/book/9781472420046.
Previously, I have contributed to three books.
The latest written with Dr. Qijun Han "Infectious Inequalities: Epidemics, Trust and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema" is available open access at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52017.
I have another one written with an assortment of colleagues, "Disasters and History: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies", which is also accessible open access at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/disasters-and-history/0E0A126BFA23BFA416D8AABC75014D59.
My first book, "Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements", has an extended preview available at https://www.routledge.com/Coping-with-Crisis-The-Resilience-and-Vulnerability-of-Pre-Industrial/Curtis/p/book/9781472420046.
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Open access funded via NWO Book Grant of Daniel R. Curtis.
This book has been stimulated by the questions and hypotheses put forward by a recent ‘disaster studies’ literature - in particular, by placing the intrinsic arrangement of societies at the forefront of the explanatory framework. Essentially it is suggested that the resilience or vulnerability of habitation has less to do with exogenous crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses which dictate: (a) the extent of destruction caused by crises and the capacity for society to protect itself; and (b) the capacity to create a sufficient recovery. By empirically testing the explanatory framework on a number of societies between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century in England, the Low Countries, and Italy, it is ultimately argued in this book that rather than the protective functions of the state or the market, or the implementation of technological innovation or capital investment, the most resilient human habitations in the pre-industrial period were those than displayed an equitable distribution of property and a well-balanced distribution of power between social interest groups. Equitable distributions of power and property were the underlying conditions in pre-industrial societies that allowed 'favourable' institutions to emerge with high rates of participation down the social hierarchy, giving people the freedom and room to choose their own fate - not necessarily reliant on one coping strategy but with the capacity to combine many different ones in search of optimum resilience.
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modern Low Countries experienced high levels of ‘agency’ and
‘independence’ – measured through ages and rates of marriage,
participation in economic activities beyond the household, and the
physical occupation of collective or public spaces. Epidemic disease
outbreaks, however, also help bring into focus a number of female
burdens and hardships in the early modern Low Countries, possibly
born out of structural inequalities and vulnerabilities obscured from
view in ‘normal times’, and which is supported by recent demographic
research showing heightened adult female mortality compared
to male during epidemics. For women, these included
expectations of care both inside and outside the familial household,
different forms of persecution, and social controls via authorities
from above and internal regulation within communities from
below – though these were also restrictions that women of course
did not always passively accept, and sometimes violently rejected.
Open access funded via NWO Book Grant of Daniel R. Curtis.
This book has been stimulated by the questions and hypotheses put forward by a recent ‘disaster studies’ literature - in particular, by placing the intrinsic arrangement of societies at the forefront of the explanatory framework. Essentially it is suggested that the resilience or vulnerability of habitation has less to do with exogenous crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses which dictate: (a) the extent of destruction caused by crises and the capacity for society to protect itself; and (b) the capacity to create a sufficient recovery. By empirically testing the explanatory framework on a number of societies between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century in England, the Low Countries, and Italy, it is ultimately argued in this book that rather than the protective functions of the state or the market, or the implementation of technological innovation or capital investment, the most resilient human habitations in the pre-industrial period were those than displayed an equitable distribution of property and a well-balanced distribution of power between social interest groups. Equitable distributions of power and property were the underlying conditions in pre-industrial societies that allowed 'favourable' institutions to emerge with high rates of participation down the social hierarchy, giving people the freedom and room to choose their own fate - not necessarily reliant on one coping strategy but with the capacity to combine many different ones in search of optimum resilience.
https://twitter.com/hcsjournal
modern Low Countries experienced high levels of ‘agency’ and
‘independence’ – measured through ages and rates of marriage,
participation in economic activities beyond the household, and the
physical occupation of collective or public spaces. Epidemic disease
outbreaks, however, also help bring into focus a number of female
burdens and hardships in the early modern Low Countries, possibly
born out of structural inequalities and vulnerabilities obscured from
view in ‘normal times’, and which is supported by recent demographic
research showing heightened adult female mortality compared
to male during epidemics. For women, these included
expectations of care both inside and outside the familial household,
different forms of persecution, and social controls via authorities
from above and internal regulation within communities from
below – though these were also restrictions that women of course
did not always passively accept, and sometimes violently rejected.
This open call for papers for the Rural History Conference in Coimbra, Portugal (September 2025) is searching for submissions to make up 1 or 2 sessions. Any papers related to the topic presented above will be considered, and the same goes for place and period – papers on women and land from anywhere in the world and from any period are welcome.
Feel free to sent paper titles, short abstracts of 150 words (if you have one), and your institutional details to me, Daniel R. Curtis at [email protected] by the 15th September 2024. From there I will make the session submission by 30th September 2024.
I am coordinating the call for 2024. Would be happy to discuss any ideas for submissions (or see submissions...).
Session deadline is 15 October 2022, so initial expressions of interest are welcome before that date! Let me, Daniel R. Curtis, know at [email protected]
Session deadline is 15 September 2020, so initial expressions of interest are welcome before that date! Let me, Daniel R. Curtis, know at [email protected]
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