Professional Historians in Public: Old and New Roles Revisited

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Professional Historians in Public

Old and New Roles Revisited

Edited by: Berber Bevernage and Lutz Raphael

Volume 5 in the series The Politics of Historical Thinking

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111186047

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About this book

The past decades public interest in history is booming. This creates new opportunities but also challenges for professional historians. This book asks how historians deal with changing public demands for history and how these affect their professional practices, values and identities. The volume offers a great variety of detailed studies of cases where historians have applied their expertise outside the academic sphere. With contributions focusing on Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe the book has a broad geographical scope.

Subdivided in five sections, the book starts with a critical look back on some historians who broke with mainstream academic positions by combining their professional activities with an explicit political partisanship or social engagement. The second section focusses on the challenges historians are confronted with when entering the court room or more generally exposing their expertise to legal frameworks. The third section focuses on the effects of policy driven demands as well as direct political interventions and regulations on the historical profession. A fourth section looks at the challenges and opportunities related to the rise of new digital media. Finally several authors offer their view on normative standards that may help to better respond to new demands and to define role models for publicly engaged historians.

This book aims at historians and other academics interested in public uses of history.

Author / Editor information

Berber Bevernage, Ghent University, Belgium; Lutz Raphael, University of Trier, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
The Politics of Historical Thinking Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction
1 New Roles for Professional Historians and New Public Uses of the Past Berber Bevernage and Lutz Raphael Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Histoires Engagées: A Critical Look Back
2 Eric Hobsbawm as a Public Champion of Cosmopolitan Universalism Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 Two Sides of Activist Scholarship Within UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1964–1998) Larissa Schulte Nordholt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4 Colonial Historiography, Hindutva, and the Difficulty of Reading the Ancient Indian Historical Traditions Kanad Sinha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part Two: Law and Historical Expertise
5 Challenges of Historical Expert Witnessing in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Elsewhere Vladimir Petrović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6 The Waitangi Tribunal and the Public Life of History Bain Attwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part Three: Old and New Public Demands on Professional Historians
7 Between Discipline and Profession: Historical Studies and Their Public Relevance in Brazil Fernando Nicolazzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
8 Policy-Oriented History for the EU: The Rise of a New Type of Professional Practice for Historians? Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9 Indigenous History, Activism, and the Decolonizing University: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Struggle over the Khoisan Past in Post-apartheid South Africa June Bam and Rafael Verbuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Part Four: Public History in New Media
10 Russian Public Historians in the New Media (The Case of Telegram) Alexandra Kolesnik, Boris Stepanov and Irina Savelieva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
11 Practices of Popular Science and Digital Curation in Theory of History on the Portuguese Edition of Wikipedia Flávia Florentino Varella and Rodrigo Bragio Bonaldo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Part Five: Perspectives: Moral, Epistemic, and Political
12 Historians and Human Rights Advocacy Antoon De Baets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
13 The Politics of Memory and the Task of Historians Jakob Tanner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
14 Languages of Legitimation and the Registers of Legitimate History Benjamin Zachariah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Selected Bibliography on ‘Public Uses of the Past and the Role of Professional Historians in the Public Sphere’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, memory studies scholars
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 391
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Public history; engaged history; historical expertise

eBook

Published: July 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111186047

Hardcover

Published: July 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111185910