Prof. Alison Anderson PhD
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities
The interweaving of the Old and New Worlds (especially Europe, North America and the Caribbean from the 19th to the 21st centuries). The history of media, economics, law, technology and knowledge.
The history of material cultures, the history of immaterial goods, the history of logistics, the history of the market and its limits, the history of audiovisual storage and the methodology and theory of history as an academic subject
English, French, German, Spanish
Tonjagd. Magnetbänder zwischen Recht und Revolution (1949-1969), in: Archiv für Mediengeschichte 12 (2012), pp. 137-152.
Wertspeicher: Epistemologien des Warenlagers, in: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 2 (2012), pp. 35-50.
Handling, Flow Charts, Logistik: Zur Wissensgeschichte und Materialkultur von Warenflüssen, in:
Nach Feierabend, Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte 7 (2011), pp. 75-103.
Die Geschichtswissenschaft in Begutachtung: Acht Kommentare zur historischen Methode in der Gegenwart (together with David Gugerli), in: Traverse 2(2011), pp. 154-164.
"Be Wise – Palletize"e;: Die Transformationen eines Transportbrettes zwischen den USA und Europa im Zeitalter der Logistik, in: Traverse, 16, 3 (2009), pp. 21-35.
Lost in Tradition? Reconsidering the History of Folklore and its Legal Protection since 1800, in: Burri-Nenova, Mira/ Graber, Christoph-Beat (Ed.) Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK/Northhampton, MA 2008, pp. 3-16.
Durchsicht, Einsicht, Vorsicht. Eine Geschichte der Röntgenstrahlen, 1896-1963. Zurich 2003.
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project PP001-11958: Flow of materials: Transport and distribution of goods and the rise of logistics, 1850-2000). (duration: 48 months, 1,218,938 Swiss Francs. Extended by 12 months until 31.12.2013, 218,617 Swiss Francs) see also http://www.materialflow.ch/
SNF project 101511-10394: Copying and regulating: Intellectual property in the midst of technical reproduction, aesthetic revolution and legal standardisation (19th/20th century) (duration: 36 months, 281,435 Swiss Francs.)
SNF project 100011E-148339/1: Mimetic Economies: Cultures of imitation and brand management since 1800 (sub-project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) research group FOR 1867, Media and Mimesis (Duration 36 months, 576,073 Swiss Francs.)
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Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, social history, cultural history, historical anthropology, history of science, gender history
Humanities, Social, modern political, and environmental history
Humanities, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity