Review - Cristina Ferreira, Ludovic Maugué, Sandrine Maulini, L’homme-bus : une histoire des controverses psychiatriques (1960-1980)

in Crime, Histoire and Sociétés (2022), 26(1), 123-124

Le 10 janvier 1986, Martial Richoz est placé de force à l’hôpital psychiatrique de Cery, dans la banlieue de Lausanne. Ce jeune homme se promenait depuis plusieurs années avec un trolleybus en miniature ... [more ▼]

Le 10 janvier 1986, Martial Richoz est placé de force à l’hôpital psychiatrique de Cery, dans la banlieue de Lausanne. Ce jeune homme se promenait depuis plusieurs années avec un trolleybus en miniature dans les rues de sa ville, déguisé en chauffeur des transports lausannois. Son enfermement se transforme en affaire juridique, médiatique et politique. Ce moment est l’occasion pour Cristina Ferreira, Ludovic Maugué et Sandrine Maulini de retracer « une histoire des controverses psychiatriques... [less ▲]

Camisole

in Poutrin, Isabelle; Lusset, Elisabeth (Eds.) Dictionnaire du fouet et de la fessée. Corriger et punir (2022)

Maladies mentales et société (XIXe – XXIe siècles)

Book published by La Découverte (2022)

Histories and memories: narrating the Great War in Belgium 1914-2013

in Cornelißen, Christoph; Weinrich, Arndt (Eds.) Writing War History. Hundred Years of Historiography on the First World War (2021)

Medical Histories of Belgium New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Book published by Manchester University Press (2021)

Beyond boundaries: histories of dis/order and dis/ability

in Majerus, Benoît; Vandendriesche, Joris (Eds.) Medical Histories of Belgium New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2021)

Surveillance, indépendance et intégrité

Book published by CSSF (2020)

Review: Angela Griessenböck, Von Heilung, Pflege und Verwahrung. Zur Geschichte der Landesirrenanstalt in Hall in Tirol und ihrer Patientinnen und Patienten (1882–1918)

in Virus. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin (2020), 19

Ecrire l'histoire de la place financière d/au Luxembourg

in Marx, Claude; Limpach, Marc; Majerus, Benoît (Eds.) Surveillance, indépendance et intégrité (2020)

Too small to be of interest, too large to grasp? Histories of the Luxembourg financial centre

in European Review of History (2020)

The importance of smaller financial centres in international capitalism has recently been highlighted by a number of ‘leaks’. Yet such public attention stands in contrast to the paucity of ... [more ▼]

The importance of smaller financial centres in international capitalism has recently been highlighted by a number of ‘leaks’. Yet such public attention stands in contrast to the paucity of historiographical research on these relatively new centres. To this regard, Luxembourg provides an interesting case study. While identified as a ‘global specialist’ by the Global Financial Centres Index, the genealogy of how it came to achieve this status remains largely under-researched. This article reviews the historiography of the Luxembourg financial centre from both external perspectives – how the international social sciences and humanities have positioned the Luxembourg financial sector within the broader finance and banking context – and internal viewpoints – how scholars in Luxembourg have recounted the relevant events. The Luxembourg financial centre began to appear in international historiography only in the last fifteen years. With only rare departures from general overviews and a tendency not to consult local sources, the contributions of international historians have mostly attempted to identify time frames and contextualise the particularities of its historical development. That said, a recent geographical diversification of the literature has seen the appearance of publications that demonstrate a more detailed understanding of its internal structures and links with other nerve centres of the global financial system. While a Luxembourg historiography began to develop in the late 1970s, it has often been produced to coincide with commemorative events, funded by players in the financial centre and frequently written by these same actors. While not necessarily hagiographic in approach, a lack of distance from the subject and a failure to problematise the subject has nevertheless meant that these writings are little more than factual introductions that, while useful, are limited in their historiographical depth. Furthermore, a dearth of archival research has produced a repetitive narrative based around a selection of key events and figures. [less ▲]