What is public history globally? : working with the past in the present / edited by Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashton, Paul, 1959- editor.

Trapeznik, Alexander, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public history.

Public history--Case studies.

Historiography.

Historiography--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.

Contents:

Part 1 Background, Definitions and Issues p. 9

1 Public History in Australia; History in Place p. 11 / Lisa Murray and Mark Dunn

2 Public History in Britain: Repossessing the Past p. 23 / Mark Donnelly

3 Public History in Canada: Public Service or Public Service? p. 37 / Michael Dove and Michelle A. Hamilton

4 Public History in China: Past Making in the Present p. 51 / Na Li

5 Public History in Germany: Opening New Spaces p. 63 / Thorsten Logge and Nico Nolden

6 Public History In India: Towards a People's Past p. 79 / Indira Chowdhury and Srijan Mandal

7 Public History in Indonesia: The Old Disorder? p. 93 / Paul Ashton and Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney

8 Public History in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa p. 107 / Alex Trapeznik

9 Public History in Scandinavia: Uses of the Past p. 121 / Anne Brædder

10 Public History in South Africa: A Tool for Recovery p. 131 / Julia C. Wells

11 Public History in the United States: Institutionalizing Old Practices p. 145 / Thomas Cauvin

Part II Approaches and Methods p. 157

12 First Encounters: Approaching the Public Past p. 159 / Meg Foster

13 Affective Afterlives: Public History, Archaeology and the Material Turn p. 173 / Denis Byrne

14 The Archaeological Archive: Material Traces and Recovered Histories p. 187 / Tracy Ireland

15 Archives and Public History: A Developing Partnership p. 199 / Jeannette A. Bastion and Stephanie Krauss

16 'Speak, Memory': Current Issues in Oral and Public History p. 213 / Paula Hamilton

17 Who Do You Think You Are? The Family in Public History p. 225 / Anna Green

18 Love Thy Neighbour: Local and Community History p. 239 / Tanya Evans

19 Grassroots Activism, Heritage and the Cultural Landscape: The Loud Fences Campaign p. 251 / Jacqueline Z. Wilson and Keir Reeves

20 Past Continuous: Digital Public History through Social Media and Photography p. 265 / Serge Noiret

Part III Sites of Public History p. 279

21 Remembering Dark Pasts and Horrific Places: Sites of Conscience p. 281 / Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson

22 #Fake History: The State of Heritage Interpretation p. 295 / Sue Hodges

23 'The Air Still Rings with the Excitement of Spanish Life': Ybor City and the Cuban Cigar p. 309 / Christopher J. Castañeda

24 Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal: Architects as Agents of Memory p. 323 / Amritha Ballal and Moulshri Joshi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.

ISBN:

9781350033283

1350033286

9781350033290

1350033294

OCLC:

1077599535