Historical Consciousness and Practical Life : A Theory and Methodology / Paul Zanazanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zanazanian, Paul, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadians, English-speaking--Québec (Province).

Canadians, English-speaking.

History--Psychological aspects--Methodology.

History.

History--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.) : 17 b&w tables

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Historical Consciousness and Practical Life introduces a novel approach to examining how people construct and employ historical knowledge in their daily lives. In viewing history as an embodied cultural practice that constitutes the background to our meaning-making, the book demonstrates how researchers and others can investigate the ways in which people make sense of time’s flow in their now-moment engagements with the world and use that information to position themselves regarding key social problems with historical roots. The book provides a glimpse at how humans enter historically embedded thinking problems, seeking to resolve them. Paul Zanazanian draws on a study of the community leaders of English-speaking Quebec to illustrate the practical life methodology’s workings. In looking at their different uses of history for strengthening their group’s vitality in the province, he identifies five key stances these leaders employ for positioning their sense of purpose and responsibility for securing English-speaking Quebec’s future. Ultimately, Historical Consciousness and Practical Life argues that community leaders who complicate and problematize their uses of history are the best positioned to make positive transformations for their group.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Boxes and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why a Practical Life Methodology for Historical Consciousness?

1 Historical Consciousness and Practical Life

2 The Practical Life Methodology: Schematic Narrative Templates

3 The Practical Life Methodology: Enactment

4 Schematic Narrative Templates, Correlations, and Epistemic Enactments

5 HISTORY IS AN INSTRUMENT FOR POSITIVE OUTCOMES and Key Community Leader Stances

6 HISTORY IS GROUP EMPOWERMENT and Key Community Leader Stances

7 Historical Consciousness, Practical Life, and Social Change

8 The Practical Life Methodology’s Main Implications and New Pathways for Future Research

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Example for Coding Schematic Narrative Templates

Appendix 2: Example for Coding Enactment

References and Additional Readings

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025)

ISBN:

9781487518882

1487518889

9781487518899

1487518897