Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-837-5 (ISBN)

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Draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the conditions of their production, prompting claims that we have entered a new era in which the past has become more “present” than ever before. Contemplating Historical Consciousness brings together leading historians, ethnographers, and other scholars who give illuminating reflections on the aims, methods, and conceptualization of their own research as well as the successes and failures they have encountered. This rich collective account provides valuable perspectives for current scholars while charting new avenues for future research.

Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. Her latest book, Private Lives, Public History (2016), uses interviews with one hundred Australians to consider the ways personal connections to the past intersect with broader historical narratives and debates.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Historical Consciousness: Theory and Practice

Anna Clark and Carla L. Peck

PART I: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, CURRICULUM, AND PEDAGOGY

Chapter 1. Schools, Students, and Community History in Northern Ireland

Alan W. McCully and Keith C. Barton

Chapter 2. “Orientation to the Past”: Some Reflections on Historical Consciousness Research from England

Arthur Chapman

Chapter 3. History Educational Research into Historical Consciousness in Flanders

Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Kaat Wils

Chapter 4. Historical Consciousness: A Learning and Teaching Perspective from the Netherlands

Carla van Boxtel

Chapter 5. Historical Consciousness and Representations of National Territories. What the Trump and Berlin Walls Have in Common

Mario Carretero

PART II: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN AND BEYOND BORDERS

Chapter 6. Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific

Angela Wanhalla

Chapter 7. Looking Back at Canadians and Their Pasts

Peter Seixas

Chapter 8. Private Lives, Public History: Navigating Australian historical consciousness

Anna Clark

Chapter 9. “Chinese and the Pasts”: Exploring Historical Consciousness of Ordinary Chinese—Initial Findings from Chongqing

Na Li

Chapter 10. “They Fought for Our Language”: Historical Narratives and National Identification among Young French Canadians

Stéphane Lévesque and Jocelyn Létourneau

PART III: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

Chapter 11. What is Black Historical Consciousness?

LaGarrett J. King

Chapter 12. ‘There Are Current Lessons from the Holocaust’: Making Meaning from Jewish Histories of the Holocaust

Jordana Silverstein

Chapter 13. The “Realness” of Place in the Spiral of Time: Reflections on Indigenous Historical Consciousness from the Coast Salish Territory

Michael Marker

Chapter 14. Intergenerational Family Memory and Historical Consciousness

Anna Green

Chapter 15. Researching Identity and Historical Consciousness

Carla L. Peck

Epilogue: Why Historical Consciousness?

Maria Grever

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Making Sense of History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-837-8 / 1789208378
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-837-5 / 9781789208375
Zustand	Neuware