Concepts - frame understanding of the world through language.

Different from words, because they are contested, their

meaning is not clear
Globalization - means diff things to diff people, it was used to
financial market, highly politicizes, now social change, economic
change. Descriptive as much as it is discursive.
Help us understand the world by describing the word in concepts.
Understand power negotiations.
Modernity, freedom, soveregnity key in their normative
Understanding new legitimacy coming in , changes in power study
history and key concepts
Normativity of concepts is what they are contested with. Claim
universal truth through a concept. Concepts have a power to be
hegemonic, when they are hegemonic they are not contested.
Each concept exist because you argue for it, you construct a
semantic field around it.
Nation -culture, sovereignity, identity, territory, history, language,
state, welfare state, economy, society, globalization. Limit yourself
to a certain empirical sample. Shifts in a semAntic field.
Serious take what kind of genre you re analyzing. Defines the
possibilities you have as a researcher.
Any theory is a construction!
Circularity ?
Reinhart Koselleck the pioneer of conceptual analysis.
Structural constructivism Niilo Kanppi, taking Bordieau to a new
approach, transnational level
Rebecca Adler Nissen
Why history?
There is always element of time. History is not about what happens
in time but what happens through time. Schoolbooks place events
in time, and produce national narrative
Classical historical narratives situate history in time ::: through time

Not contest chronological line - 2 important events

Conceptual history : no temporal mark to history. Not 1918-1945 but
nation state, post-colonialism. Sometimes dates can limit us in
understanding of history. Death of dates. More openness without
fixed dates.

Through -agency and change, we engage and change history. If

there is any political modernity it will be constructed through time.
Rewrite it, we use time.
Discourses temporalize and spatialize through time.
9.11. new narrative . how could this be. History is mobile, osme
elements are taken from past, through agency, used events to
construct. Continuously current , in the present we construct past
and future.
Interpretation of our past it become hegemonical , points to future,
a Europe that it should be. History of EU integration Athens,
Rome,Christianity, democracy, EU as great idea of peace. Lost
brothers, return to Europe, 2000 everybody is happy classical
textbook with lot of future, EU provides peace, and democracy.
The construction of history through concepts Katarina Velika,
Novorusija
Questions obviously have political angle, shaping proto political
view.
What kind of futures ar enegotiated , what kind of new beginings in
moments of conceptual insecurity?
From what perspective how rq is operationalized, is it convincing,
interesting.
Idea to move on, away from sth. Any society anywhere in the world,
temporalizes its legitimacy global condition. Ideal societies and
normative notions of where we want t go are not found at the same
moment in the , topos is space is a imaginative space. Utopia
imaginative space. You imagine utopia at the same space at the
other point in time, implemented in the same space, in the future,
make a perfect society. We temporalize again. Done through
reinterpretation of certain past experiences, Germans shouldnt be
Nazis. Perfect place and place that can never be.
Mix space and time how certain ideal times, futures are projected
into certain spaces. Moments at which history is discussed in a very
intense way, building a new narrative for the future moments of
conceptual insecurity. In 1930s in India, 1920s in China. Global
impetus. Received and perceived a couple of years later.
Great depression, Wilsonian moment crisis of liberalism, liberalism
wasn t doing that well, moment in time when other options were
seriously considered.
Colonised country that wants to be free anti-British.
Study group of persons a network of actors, and follow their
thoughts. Network of economic actors has spaces of manouvre.

Prosopography. Network people who are connected. Corporatist

economy in fascism, couldn t it be translated into Indian future.
May fourth incident as the zero hour.
Cultural political task these composers have to fulfill, make sure we
don t just copy European stuff but make our own. Chinese
assumptions about the west , how chinese , stereotypes about the
west. Strong argument to change sth in china. Long imperial history
over, need for new legitimacy and futures.
Appropriation not a copy paste mechanism, but here s greta
European music, make it appropriate. Limits are important to the
way sth is appropriate.