Ingrid Eskild

Heiskanen, J., MacKay, J., Neumann, I. B., Wigen, E., Eskild, I., Hall, M., … Kappes, F. (2024). Nomads and international relations: post-sedentarist dialogues. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2024.2426782

Eskild, Ingrid “Making progress legible. Historicity and materiality in the late-nineteenth century Arab periodical” i Lifetimes. A theory of life forms and time scales, eds Helge Jordheim and Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal (forthcoming, 2025).

Eskild, Ingrid. "Ritualiserte følelser og politisk legitimitet" i Babylon. Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier, 23(2) 2024.

Wigen, Einar, A Nalan Azak, Ingrid Eskild, Helge Jordeim, Anne Kveim Lie, Akif Ercihan Yerlioglu, and Espen Ytreberg. "Temporal Technologies of Epidemics." Medical Humanities 48, no. 4 (2022). 

• Heiskanen, Jaakko; MacKay, Joseph; Neumann, Iver Brynild; Wigen, Einar; Eskild, Ingrid & Hall, Martin [Vis alle 10 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2024). Nomads and international relations: post-sedentarist dialogues. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. ISSN 0955-7571. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2024.2426782. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The key concepts and reference points of International Relations (IR) are informed by a sedentarist worldview anchored on the territorial state. IR’s conception of its subject-matter is thus ‘static’ in both senses of the word: state-centric and immobile. One of the consequences of this sedentarist worldview has been a neglect of the world’s nomads. Defined by their spatial mobility, nomads have been either ignored or, less frequently, brought in as an exceptional ‘Other’ against which concepts such as statehood and territoriality can be defined. The interventions in this forum challenge IR’s sedentarism by recovering the world’s nomads as international political actors past and present, thus enriching the range of empirical cases upon which IR scholars may build their theories and challenging teleological narratives that view the history of the international system as the inevitable triumph of the territorial state. At the same time, the forum cautions against the reification of the nomad as the ‘Other’ of the state by disaggregating nomadism from mobility and problematising the sedentarism/nomadism binary. The goal of the forum is not to provide a blueprint for how IR scholars should study nomads, but to promote a critical reflexivity about IR’s sedentarist assumptions.

• Wigen, Einar; Azak, Nalan; Eskild, Ingrid; Jordheim, Helge; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Yerlioglu, Akif Ercihan [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Temporal technologies of epidemics. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. 48(4). doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Eskild, Ingrid (2023). Making Progress Legible. Historicity and Materiality in al-Muqtataf (1876-1885). Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This thesis examines the Arabic literary-scientific periodical al-Muqtataf during its formative years in Beirut, 1876-1885, focusing on its role in shaping a concept of progressive historical time. Historical time, the idea that the past progresses via the present and into the future, may seem like a stable configuration that frames the human experience, but it is an epistemic construct subjected to historical transformation. Therefore, it is also an object for empirical analysis. This thesis enters the ongoing debates on modern temporal configurations by investigating how time regimes can be assembled through concrete practices and material infrastructure. The purpose of this thesis is to show how al-Muqtataf gave the vague notions on progress that permeated the late Ottoman-Arab discourse a legible form. It did this by way of its circulation and periodical issuing, which attuned its readership to a rhythm dictated by historical events rather than seasonal or natural cycles. Furthermore, its editors’ methods for inscribing natural phenomena into graphs, diagrams, and tables made them into educational objects, creating an imperative for “the Arabs” to “enter the historical stage” as modern, scientifically minded individuals. The journal format, a result of the newly available printing press, created new visual preferences for collage-like layouts, spacious fonts, and naturalistic lithographs, which aligned al-Muqtataf to similar international publications. Moreover, the editors applied a simpler style of Arabic and rapidly introduced foreign terminology to ease the process of acquiring knowledge. This thesis concludes that the journal helped synchronize the late-nineteenth century Arab to a process-oriented temporal regime informed by notions of speed and forward-movement. Taking seriously the material circumstances of knowledge production assists the debunking of orientalist and Eurocentric myths by showing how knowledge is always locally situated and crafted.

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