Making Histories / Tanya Evans, Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashton, Paul, Editor.

Evans, Tanya, Editor.

Hamilton, Paula, Editor.

Series:

Public History in International Perspective ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erinnerung.

Memory.

Performance.

Resistance.

Widerstand.

Local Subjects:

Erinnerung.

Memory.

Performance.

Resistance.

Widerstand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIX, 285 p.)

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

If historical culture is the specific and particular ways that a society engages with its past, this book aims to situate the professional practice of public history, now emerging across the world, within that framework. It links the increasingly varied practices of memory and history-making such as genealogy, podcasting, re-enactment, family histories, memoir writing, film-making and facebook histories with the work that professional historians do, both in and out of the academy. Making Histories asks questions about the role of the expert and notions of authority within a landscape that is increasingly concerned with connection to the past and authenticity. The book is divided into four parts: 1. Resistance, Rights, Authority 2. Memory, Memorialization, Commemoration 3. Performance, Transmission, Reception 4. Family, Private, Self The four sections outline major themes emerging in public history across the world in the 21st century which are all underpinned by the impact of new media on historical practice and our central argument for the volume which advocates a more capacious definition of what constitutes ‘public history‘.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Making Histories, Making Memories in Difficult Times

Chapter 1. The Urgency for a Queer Public History in Highly Conservative Societies: A Brazillian Exhibition

Chapter 2. Between Authority and Dialogue: Challenges for the House of European History

Chapter 3. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: Intersections of History, Memory and Politics

Chapter 4. Citizens: Eight Hundred Years in the Making

Chapter 5. Trust, Risk and Historical Authority: Negotiating Public History in Digital and Analog Worlds

Chapter 6. The Memory of Trade Unionism in Germany

Chapter 7. Digital Historiographies of Khmer Rouge Memorials: Blogging on Tuol Sleng and the ‘Killing Fields’

Chapter 8. Public Memory, Conflict and Women: Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland

Chapter 9. Belene: A Case of Pedagogy of Memory?

Chapter 10. Public History and the “Crisis of History” in Italy: Reflections and Experiences from the Field

Chapter 11. The Occupation and Beyond: Presenting, Doing and Watching History on Dutch Television Since 1960

Chapter 12. Gaming Public History: Academics and Digital Games

Chapter 13. District Six: The Musical

Chapter 14. Trip Hazards: The Perils of Urban Walking Tours

Chapter 15. Making Public History in Italy

Chapter 16. Crowdsourcing: Citizen History and Criminal Characters

Chapter 17. Self-writing in Tral: Struggles in Historymaking in (Indian) Kashmir

Chapter 18. Place-attachment in a Suburban Setting: Making Personal History Public

Chapter 19. Family Historians and Historians of the Family: The Value of Collaboration

Chapter 20. “Resourceful Reinvention”: Speculative Biography as Public History?

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9783110632620

3110632624