Books by Anneleen Arnout
This book addresses the unresolved question of how urban retailing and consumption changed during... more This book addresses the unresolved question of how urban retailing and consumption changed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It replaces the usual focus on just one (type of) shopping institution with that of the urban shopping landscape in its entirety. Based on secondary sources for comparable cities and an in-depth empirical analysis of primary sources for Brussels, the author demonstrates that the unbridled commercialisation of cities in the nineteenth century cannot be understood without taking into account the entirety of the shopping landscape. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis, she shows how and why the culture and spaces of shopping evolved.
Articles and book chapters by Anneleen Arnout
Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970, 2022
Historisch Tijdschrift Holland, 2020
in: Arnaud Knaepen, Christophe Loir and Alexis Wilkin (eds), Les marchés alimentaires en ville depuis le Moyen Age: organisation, contrôle, circulation (Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles) , 2018
This contribution focuses on the Galeries Saint-Hubert as a meeting place in fin de siècle Brusse... more This contribution focuses on the Galeries Saint-Hubert as a meeting place in fin de siècle Brussels. With their luxurious shops, societies and coffee houses, arcades had become important meeting places for the bourgeoisie in many fin de siècle cities. In this contribution, I argue that the arcade formed a much more encompassing social nexus. The comfortable pavement; glass roff; shops and entertainment venues did indeed draw 'respectable' audiences. Yet, the bourgeoisie also encountered 'the other' in the arcade. Many of them might have crossed without noticing, but many interacted more intensively by looking at each other, bumping into each other or by talking over the shop counters and at the tables in the cafés and restaurants. Because it was a public space that was brightly lit and rain-proof, offering the free entertainment of window displays and crowds, the arcade attracted people of very different social standing. While only some of them met there deliberately, the social diversity of the crowds was part of the attraction for most visitors.
This contribution focuses on the Galeries Saint-Hubert as a meeting place in fin de siecle Brusse... more This contribution focuses on the Galeries Saint-Hubert as a meeting place in fin de siecle Brussels. With their luxurious shops, societies and coffee houses, arcades had become important meeting places for the bourgeoisie in many fin de siecle cities. In this contribution, I argue that the arcade formed a much more encompassing social nexus. The comfortable pavement, glazed roof, shops and entertainment venues did indeed draw respectable audiences. Yet, the bourgeoisie also encountered people from outside their own social circle. Although it is difficult to assess the extent of their social interaction, people of different social backgrounds at least passively encountered ‘the other’ in the arcade. Many of them might have crossed without noticing, but many of them interacted more intensively by looking at each other, bumping into each other or by talking over the shop counters and at the tables in the cafes and restaurants. Because it was a public space that was brightly lit and rai...
The Landscape of Consumption, 2014
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 2012
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 2012
Anneleen Arnout het adres van de kunst of de kunst van het adres Locatiepatronen en de verschuivi... more Anneleen Arnout het adres van de kunst of de kunst van het adres Locatiepatronen en de verschuivingen op de scène van de Brusselse kunst-en antiekhandel, 1830-1914 1. Charles Baudelaire, Pauvre Belgique (vertaald en bewerkt door Joyce & Co) (Amsterdam 1975) 125.
Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 2009
Dissertation by Anneleen Arnout
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Leicester July 2023
In July 2023, The Urban History Journal will organize its 50th anniversary conference in Leicester. The call for sessions is now open. We are looking to send in a session proposal for a panel about the emerging field of urban emotions history, and we are looking for scholars who want to join in. We specifically want to focus on scholarship concerned with urban histories of the (early) modern period (ca 1500-2000).
Session proposal
ALL THE FEELS. THE EMERGING FIELD OF URBAN EMOTIONS HISTORY (1500-2000)
As Katie Barclay and Jane Riddle have recently argued, ‘a scholarship of global urban emotions is still in its infancy’ (Barclay & Riddle 2020). The cross-pollination between urban history and the history of emotions has been slow to develop. As evidenced by recent and forthcoming overviews of the field (e.g. Corbin et al eds. 2016; Boddice 2018; Broomhall, Davidson & Lynch eds. 2019; Barclay & Stearns eds. 2022), cities have not been of specific concern to historians of emotions. Conversely, as a group, urban historians have been slow at integrating insights from the history of emotions in their field of research. In many ways this may be considered surprising. After all, urban historians have long been sensitive to the experiences of their subjects. Emotions and feelings have popped up throughout different types of social, economic, cultural and political histories of cities, long before the history of emotions emerged as a full-fledged subfield of history. Most of the time, however, historians did not place those emotions at the heart of their analysis. The expressions of feelings they quoted or paraphrased mostly served to illustrate or enhance another type of argument.
More explicit engagements with emotions or feelings by urban historians have been few and far between. Bar a few exceptions – such as the excellent volume on emotions in the medieval city edited by Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (2005) – urban historians have only recently started to engage with the theoretical frameworks that have been developed within the history of emotions since the 1980s. As recent studies have shown (e.g. Kenny 2014; Prestel 2017; Valade ed in Histoire Urbaine 2019; Barclay & Riddle ed. 2020; Madgin & Lesh ed. 2021), applying theoretical perspectives and methods from the history of emotions to questions of urban history may lead to new insights into how cities were made and remade, in a social, cultural and political, but also in a physical sense.
This panel aims to reflect on the state of the art of the (emerging) field of urban emotions history. It seeks to address the following questions:
(1) Why should urban historians care about the emotions, feelings and experiences of urban dwellers in the past, and what is the added value of the history of emotions in that respect?
(2) What have we learned so far about the emotional histories of cities? How have emotional practices and discourses shaped cities, and conversely, how have cities shaped the emotional cultures and experiences of the past? How did emotional norms and practices, and experiences shape the social, political, economic and cultural relationships in cities, and how have they shaped urban places and spaces? Have urban spaces, forms, relationships and cultures, conversely, given rise to specifically urban emotions?
(3) What theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches have proven valuable to urban historians in the past, and how might these be developed further? How might we, for example, engage with Boddice and Smith’s (2020) call for a history of experience, rather than emotion?
We invite participants to engage with (one of) these questions for a range of global contexts from the early modern period to the late 20th century. We especially welcome papers, based in empirical research, that
(a) reflect on or exemplify the relevance, possibilities and/or pitfalls of an emotional or experiential perspective in urban history, and/or
(b) propose (new) urban emotions history approaches that are informed by the theoretical frameworks and/or methodological approaches developed within the history of emotions, including but not limited to William Reddy’s concept of the emotive (2000), Barbara Rosenwein’s concept of the emotional community (2002), Monique Scheer’s concept of emotional practices (2012), Boddice and Smith’s historical conceptualization of experience (2020).
Want to participate?
Get in touch or send in your abstract (max. 400 words) and a short bio to [email protected] before 15 June 2022.
Le volume offre un ensemble cohérent de contributions consacrées tant à la « géographie » économique et sociale des échanges alimentaires qu’aux questions d’urbanisme et de circulation des personnes et des biens en Europe occidentale et méditerranéenne, du Moyen Age à la fin du XIXe siècle. Il s’intéresse, au travers d’exemples concrets, aux défis que pose la présence sur les marchés urbains de multiples intervenants (marchands locaux ou étrangers, acheteurs de statuts divers, représentants des autorités…). Il montre comment la gestion des flux alimentaires et des problèmes de circulation qu’ils induisent s’est traduite par l’adoption d’une série de mesures de régulation et par des tentatives d’aménagement de l’espace urbain. Il pose aussi la question de la sûreté et de la qualité des aliments, qui est au cœur de la « police des vivres » – car garantir que la nourriture est « saine et loyale » apparaît comme une prérogative et un devoir des autorités. Ces études des marchés alimentaires éclairent par conséquent d’une manière originale et particulière certaines des mutations qui affectent le milieu urbain depuis le Moyen Age.
Avec des textes de Anneleen Arnout, Martin Bruegel, Antonella Campanini, James Davis, Fabien Faugeron, Anne Lannoye, Isabelle Parmentier, Francesca Pucci Donati, Patrick Rambourg, Peter Scholliers, Isabelle Theiller, Alexis Wilkin, Jean-Pierre Williot.
Le volume offre un ensemble cohérent de contributions consacrées tant à la « géographie » économique et sociale des échanges alimentaires qu’aux questions d’urbanisme et de circulation des personnes et des biens en Europe occidentale et méditerranéenne, du Moyen Age à la fin du XIXe siècle. Il s’intéresse, au travers d’exemples concrets, aux défis que pose la présence sur les marchés urbains de multiples intervenants (marchands locaux ou étrangers, acheteurs de statuts divers, représentants des autorités…). Il montre comment la gestion des flux alimentaires et des problèmes de circulation qu’ils induisent s’est traduite par l’adoption d’une série de mesures de régulation et par des tentatives d’aménagement de l’espace urbain. Il pose aussi la question de la sûreté et de la qualité des aliments, qui est au cœur de la « police des vivres » – car garantir que la nourriture est « saine et loyale » apparaît comme une prérogative et un devoir des autorités. Ces études des marchés alimentaires éclairent par conséquent d’une manière originale et particulière certaines des mutations qui affectent le milieu urbain depuis le Moyen Age.
Avec des textes de Anneleen Arnout, Martin Bruegel, Antonella Campanini, James Davis, Fabien Faugeron, Anne Lannoye, Isabelle Parmentier, Francesca Pucci Donati, Patrick Rambourg, Peter Scholliers, Isabelle Theiller, Alexis Wilkin, Jean-Pierre Williot.
Movement by train involved moving through the neighbourhood in which the train station was situated. This panel follows the flow of people in and out of the station to explore the ways in which the motion and emotion generated by the railway station transformed the neighbourhoods surrounding them. Papers may broach the issues through some of the following questions:
- How did the movement, activities, personal dramas, political conflicts, and social relations that played out in stations spill out into neighbouring districts and reconfigure the urban experience?
- How did the sights, sounds, smoke and other perceive nuisances associated with train traffic affect life in surrounding urban spaces?
- How were these highly localised encounters and interactions shaped by the transnational movement of people, goods, and, ideas that railway travel embodied?
- How did these intimate connections and global flows produce the social and economic geography of the railway neighbourhood?
- How were the ideas of modernity and progress often associated with railways challenged by perceptions of danger, criminality, and illicit activity in station neighbourhoods? How can we explain chronological shifts in emotional experiences, practices and associations?
We encourage paper proposals that examine these questions in a range of global contexts, form the earliest railway stations in the first half of the nineteenth century to the present.
Proposals for papers have to be submitted through the website before 4 October 2019: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/papers/
For questions regarding the session, please contact:
Nicolas Kenny: [email protected]
Anneleen Arnout: [email protected]