Dr Matthew David matthew.david@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
This paper approaches globalization through the lens of folk lore, myth, and John Law's hopeful monsters, focusing on Hannah Twynnoy, a woman allegedly killed by a tiger in Malmesbury (England) in 1703. Hannah's death was taken up three hundred years later as a metaphor for globalization when local factory jobs were relocated to a ‘tiger economy’ (Malaysia). Taken to manifest Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury's ‘state of nature’, Hannah's story also illustrates the reverse. Globalization can fragment and deregulate, but globalization assembles and regulates to. Hannah's gravestone and burial records blend real and virtual, local, and global; the genealogy of ‘tigers’ challenges Michel Foucault; and questions regarding blame echo across centuries, in ongoing conflict over agency and causation (as per Edmund Evans). Is globalisation a ‘jungle out there’? No. Local factory jobs did go. Nevertheless, sustaining global intellectual property regulation means the company employs more people in Malmesbury today than before manufacturing relocated. After it was announced that local jobs would be ‘eaten up’ by a ‘tiger economy’, a spate of alien big cat (ABC) sightings near Malmesbury did express what Susan Lepselter calls the inchoate injuries of class and power. Indeed, experiencing such fabulous things did resonate with something real.
David, M. (2024). Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach. Sociology Lens, https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12464
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 29, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | May 9, 2024 |
Publication Date | May 9, 2024 |
Deposit Date | May 7, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | May 13, 2024 |
Journal | Sociology Lens |
Print ISSN | 0952-1909 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12464 |
Keywords | Globalisation, tiger, deregulation, regulation |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2433542 |
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