About this book series

This series, a collaboration between Palgrave Macmillan and the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience (HEX) at Tampere University, will publish works on the histories of experience across historical time and global space. History of experience means, for the series, individual, social, and collective experiences as historically conditioned phenomena. ‘Experience’ refers here to a theoretically and methodologically conceptualized study of human experiences in the past, not to any study of ‘authentic’ or ‘essentialist’ experiences. More precisely, the series will offer a forum for the historical study of human experiencing, i.e. of the varying preconditions, factors, and possibilities shaping past experiences. Furthermore, the series will study the human institutions, communities, and the systems of belief, knowledge, and meaning as based on accumulated (and often conflicting) experiences. 
 
The aim of the series is to deepen the methodology and conceptualization of the history of lived experiences, going beyond essentialism. As the series editors see it, the history of experience can provide a bridge between structures, ideology, and individual agency, which has been a difficult gap to close for historians and sociologists. The approach opens doors to see, study, and explain historical experiences as a social fact, which again offers new insights on society. Subjective experiences are seen as objectified into knowledge regimes, social order and divisions, institutions, and other structures, which, in turn, shape the experiences. The principle idea is to present a new approach, the history of experiences, as a way to establish the necessary connection between big and small history.

Editorial board: Benno Gammerl, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; Bettina Hitzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany; Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa, Canada; Jacqueline van Gent, University of Western Australia; Johanna Sköld, University of Linköping, Sweden; Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh, UK; Klaus Petersen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense; Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Rochester, USA; Maarten van Ginderachter, Antwerp University, Belgium.

Electronic ISSN
2524-8979
Print ISSN
2524-8960
Series Editor
  • Pirjo Markkola,
  • Raisa Maria Toivo,
  • Tanja Vahtikari

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