I'm interested in alternate historical lenses to view world history from, and was wondering about any modern methodologies or research you have read/conduct with a "unique" view.
For example, most people are familiar with Marxist, Feminist, or structuralist narratives of history. But I've heard some historians discuss culinary/food histories as a lens or frame. I've seen specific products followed (alcohol, cod, salt, etc), primarily Nationalist frameworks, and climate narratives.
So, are there any new developments in historiography of new lenses to frame research or a historical narrative?
Those books on salt, cod, etc are usually lumped under "microhistory" which is actually one of my favorite easy-reading history categories, I would read a popular microhistory on just about anything. HOW JARRED MAYONNAISE MADE THE MODERN WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT! I just love reading those out-there arguments in microhistory.
Disability studies is one that's come into my radar recently, for eunuchs and castrati. It basically looks at historical times and what it meant to be disabled or able-bodied in those societies. So analyzing the castrated body, was it considered disabled in that society, if so, in what ways? I'd say disability history is part of the larger trend in body history, which works with things like, what values and meanings did society map on the body? I find body history pretty brain-stretchy when I read it, but I quite like it.