”History Culture” and the continuing crisis of history |
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Author: | Pihlainen, Kalle1 |
Organizations: |
1Oulun yliopisto |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.3 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022020717903 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Pohjois-Suomen historiallinen yhdistys,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2022-02-07 |
Description: |
AbstractThe article takes aim at a core difficulty with many current conceptualizations of “historical” culture — that of striking a balance between the common attribution of special privilege to the discipline of history and professional historians and a potential, emerging democratization of talk about the past. Seeking some working middle ground is seen as particularly timely given the contemporary media culture environment where sentiment appears to increasingly favour choosing one’s positioning relatively freely from facts and expertise. To this end, views presented under the umbrella term of historical culture, which largely appear to reserve a curatorial role for the various history professionals, are complemented by more explicitly emancipatory orientations from debates on perceived shifts in public focus to heritage and memory as well as from key postmodern-inspired approaches to thinking about the past. Several terminological recommendations are argued for, chief among them a reconceptualization of the overall field in terms of history culture, whereby professional history and popular and public “parahistory” practices might more readily be viewed as on equal footing. see all
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Series: |
Faravid. Historian ja arkeologian tutkimuksen aikakauskirja |
ISSN: | 0356-5629 |
ISSN-L: | 0356-5629 |
Volume: | 52 |
Pages: | 17 - 35 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
616 Other humanities 611 Philosophy 615 History and archaeology |
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Copyright information: |
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