03.05.2024

New publication in the »Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales« by Anne Friedrichs and Bettina Severin-Barboutie

Two articles by Anne Friedrichs, senior researcher at the IEG, have been published in the journal "Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales": Anne Friedrichs' article "Charting the Boundaries of Societies in a Trans-European Perspective: The 'Ruhr Poles' in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" and the article "Mobilities, Categorisation and Belonging: The Challenge of Reflexivity", co-authored with Bettina Severin-Barboutie (Université Clermont Auvergne).

The article "Charting the Boundaries of Societies in a Trans-European Perspective: The 'Ruhr Poles' in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" uses the case of the history of the "Ruhr Poles" to propose an historical analysis of European societies through the lens of mobility and multiple belonging.
The article "Mobilities, Categorisation and Belonging: The Challenge of Reflexivity", co-authored with Bettina Severin-Barboutie (Université Clermont Auvergne), discusses how to bring together research on migration and mobility from the Middle Ages to contemporary history. In the context of a "reflexive turn" in the social and cultural sciences, it proposes linking two questions: how mobility and migration affect the production and transformation of belonging and how historians themselves participate in the categorisation and classification of these phenomena.
Both articles have already been published under French titles in the "Annales" in 2021. Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the journal "Annales" is one of the most important forums in Europe for the dialogue between the various sub-disciplines of history and the social sciences.

Anne Friedrichs is currently Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the LMU Munich.