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Are there historical lessons across time and space? The ethics of ‘never again’ in European history teaching Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nena Mocnik
This paper explores the intersection of historical remembrance and the ethical imperative of ‘never again’ in shaping a peaceful future, drawing on the context of Council of Europe’s commitment to ...
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Source genres in history writing Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Cathleen Sarti
Sources need categorisation to ensure that from an overabundance of material the most relevant sources are used. Commonly, the separation between tradition and relics, or between primary and second...
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‘So dense a commingling of the improbable and the mundane!’: writing Palestinian history in a magical realist key Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jacob Norris
This article reflects on writing a history book in the style of a magical realist novel. The book, The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub, employs classic techniques from magical realist fiction t...
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Prisoners of the archives: privacy, identity and the history of incarceration Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Joseph F. Spillane
The archival record of incarceration in the United States presents a substantial challenge for historical research. This becomes particularly acute in those instances where historians seek to use i...
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Being alongside: the practice of collaborative public history Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Karen Harvey, Laura King, Josie McLellan
This is the editors’ introduction to a group of three articles on collaborative public history: history that is made with and by, as well as for, a range of public and community actors. We focus on...
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Fraught spaces: the risks, challenges and failures of collaborative public histories Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Sarah Lloyd, Gary Rivett
Throughout this article, we examine the potential pathways towards failure in public engagement projects as well as specific experiences of failure. Our aim is to identify some core reasons why att...
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The politicisation of historical memory on Twitter: “Positive antisemitism” in the Holocaust debate in Poland Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Adrian Trzoss, Wiktor Werner, Cyprian Kleist, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, Marcin Moskalewicz
Political controversies concerning the memory of historical events have adapted to the digital specificity of Twitter and are currently growing in significance. This study investigates the sentimen...
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Creating Cromwell: an analysis of the historical novel’s position and potentiality through a study of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Anne-Marie Harvatt
This article considers the role historical novels can play in representing the past, and to what extent (and how) such fiction can both challenge and enhance historiography. Focusing on Hilary Mant...
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Between agency and event the book of Job as a Greek tragedy Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jakob Egholm Feldt
In this study, I explore a pragmatist and processualist perspective on the interpretation of historical sources. By analyzing Horace M. Kallen’s 1918 book, ‘The Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy’, reg...
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Just a matter of time: reviewing temporality in Australian historiography Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Anna Clark
Time is a foundational concept in historical studies. The past is located ‘in time’, of course, such that time guides and bounds ‘what happened’ to a ‘when’. There have also been increasing theoris...
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Transients, punks and hobos: rethinking the history of train hopping through experimental film Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Kornelia Boczkowska
While in social history and mobilities research, the study of railway mobility is becoming increasingly popular, offering new insights into (trans)national railway cultures, there is less interest ...
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Writing the concubine: Anne Boleyn, Eustace Chapuys and popular historiography in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Laura Saxton
Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial ambassador to Henry VIII’s court, is a vital source for historians of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second queen. His writings are detailed and numerous, but they are also part...
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To think a little of you: a paragraph about Rena Merrill Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Josh Schwartz
‘To Think a Little of You’ takes the case of the author’s attempts to write a small vignette about Rena Merrill, a Portland, Maine teenager in the 1890s, to examine the ethics of reconstructing his...
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The cabinet of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe: an essay in the biographical distillation of affinities Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Kelsey Jackson Williams
This article draws on the concept of the ‘cabinet of curiosities’, Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne atlas, and Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, to articulate a shared process of ‘distillation of affinitie...
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‘I don’t even trust now what I read in history books’: family history and the future of co-production and collaboration Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Tanya Evans, Jerome de Groot, Matthew Stallard
Family historians are a large and often neglected group of historical researchers. They have a strongly articulated sense of their practice, and a well-developed set of methodologies and research a...
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Artificial history? Inquiring ChatGPT on historiography Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 A. P. Leme Lopes
In this paper, I examine the historiographical capabilities of ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot released on 30 November 2022, by OpenAI corporation. I begin by outli...
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Metafiction and the study of history: makerly knowledge in the archive Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 D. Graham Burnett, Jeff Dolven, Catherine L. Hansen, Justin E. H. Smith
ABSTRACT Rapid changes in the context and condition of historical practice (technological, institutional, theoretical) invite practicing historians to entertain experimental techniques for engaging the past: for teaching students; for investigating archives; and for presenting the results of historical inquiry. The authors introduce a form of historically oriented research and writing that shows promise
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History as translation / anachronism as synchronism Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Luigi Alonzi
When we speak and write, when we use language, we perform a temporal act which connects past, present and future. If we assume that the act of translating is the means through which we are linguist...
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History on the margins: truths, struggles and the bureaucratic research economy in Colombia, 2016–2023 Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Matthew Brown, Andrei Gómez-Suarez, Diana Valencia Duarte, Laura Acosta Hankin, Fabio López de la Roche, Julia Paulson, Maca Gómez Gutiérrez, Mary Ryder, María Teresa Pinto Ocampo, Martín Suarez, Goya Wilson Vásquez
ABSTRACT This essay reflects upon the challenges and the achievements of an exploration of the marginalized experiences of the armed conflict in Colombia. Our methods – interdisciplinary, rooted in an ethos of co-production and openness to a great plurality of ways of storytelling – have created a fuller and richer representation of the horrors of war and their consequences. The lessons we have learned
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Narrative, emplotment, power: on agency and the environment Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Marc Dorpema
ABSTRACT Questions of agency, narrative emplotment, and power are critical to the work of environmental historians. In an effort to expand the methodological toolbox available to those studying these interconnected problems, this paper develops an analytical distinction between agents and actors that attempts to steer us away from anthropocentric accounts of agency and in the direction of a clearer
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The problem of teleological history education and the possibilities of a multispecies, multiscalar, and non-continuous history Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 James Miles, Matilda Keynes
ABSTRACT In its concern with orienting students in relation to past, present and future, history education is crucially placed to pioneer generative approaches for making sense of change over time and to equip students to critically scrutinise meanings of history. Impending climate catastrophe, the still unfolding global pandemic and rising xenophobic populism are interconnected crises that demand
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Urbane Künste Ruhr and its cultural interventions in the remaking of the Ruhr region in Germany Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Stefan Berger
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the role of art in the memory activism surrounding deindustrialization in the Ruhr region of Germany by focusing on an institution promoting contemporary art: Urbane Künste Ruhr (UKR). It will ask how UKR is bringing together the past, present and future of the Ruhr region through its various activities. In particular, it will focus on UKR’s 2021 exhibition as an example
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Black lives and the ‘archival pulse’: the murder of Neil “Tommy” Marsh and other stories Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Gavin Schaffer, Saima Nasar
16-year-old Neil ‘Tommy’ Marsh was murdered in the Birmingham Pub Bombings. A recent immigrant from Jamaica, Tommy came to Britain to join his family in Handsworth. Now he is the only 1 of the 21 p...
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The belonging in abject communities: a new understanding through sewerage ghost towns Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Monika Schott
ABSTRACT Sewerage town communities often experience discrimination because of their association with sewerage, and yet they flourish on their abject margins. A recent study of sewerage town communities in Australia and the UK and specifically, the community that grew on Melbourne’s Metropolitan Sewerage Farm, established on the Australian city’s outskirts, highlighted that sewerage town communities
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A film treatment in ‘Layers’: a new approach to creative historical writing through screenwriting innovation Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Nadia Meneghello
ABSTRACT This paper contains a case study of original creative historical screenwriting and its theoretical underpinnings. The creative writing component visualises the ‘true’ story of the Coolgardie Water Supply Scheme under construction in 1902 in Western Australia. It functions as an additional ‘layer’ to my previously published paper, ‘A Process of Screenwriting: A Film Treatment for “The Engineer-in-Chief”’
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Rethinking the historical film form: trauma, temporality and indirect representation in historical essay films Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Esin Paça Cengiz
ABSTRACT In film scholarship, historical film has been identified as a form that portrays events and experiences that took place in the past. By building on Caruth’s concept of indirect representation, however, this article identifies a new historical film form that is not necessarily set in the past, but engages with questions regarding history, memory and historical representation. It conceptualizes
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Global history in two chronotopes: time, identity and the practical past in Nagasaki, Japan, 1990 and 2006 Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Scott Ma
ABSTRACT This article compares two recent expositions held in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1990 and 2006. Both expositions responded to structural economic changes related to deindustrialization that prompted reidentifications with the city’s history as a maritime trade hub in early modern Japan. To compare two temporally laced identities that emerged from this turning point, I distinguish each exposition’s
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Grasping the scale of events: Voices from Chernobyl between the historical and the monumental Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Theodoros Pelekanidis, Ferraz Felippe Eduardo
ABSTRACT The paper discusses the significance new forms of literary narration can have on the representation of groundbreaking historical events. Based initially on Hayden White’s work and his term modernist event, we argue that new kinds of events need new ways of writing history. However, neither has White given any concrete persuasive examples of how his paradigmatic historical work might look like
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How the fictional representation of historical characters can serve to justify historical events and actions: Tipu Sultan’s Tiger Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Ayesha Rafiq
ABSTRACT This paper is a comparative analysis of three nineteenth-century British novels – The Surgeon’s Daughter (1827) by Walter Scott; Tippoo Sultan: A Tale of the Mysore War (1840) by Philip Meadows Taylor; and The Tiger of Mysore (1895) by G.A. Henty – all of which feature Tipu Sultan, the Muslim ruler of the south Indian kingdom of Mysore, who used the tiger as his personal emblem, and was killed
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Reclaiming History in the British Museum entranceway: imperialism, patronage and female, queer and black legacies Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Catherine Hahn
ABSTRACT Today the British Museum (BM) entranceway consecrates imperialism and patronage. Undertaken as a journey, this paper reclaims its invisible female, queer and black legacies. In recent years there has been widespread acknowledgement that the BM needs to address its role in the British Empire. Yet, in the twenty-first century, the museum has shored up its imperial inheritance through its refurbished
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Mapping the displacement of history: from twentieth-century crisis to twenty-first-century possibilities Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 María Inés La Greca
Published in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2023)
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Digital visual history: historiographic curation using digital technologies Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Noga Stiassny, Lital Henig
ABSTRACT Digital technologies are revolutionizing the way we study and understand history. Historical sources and material evidence are increasingly being transformed into digital objects and integrated into larger databases, offering new ways of researching history in the digital age. This article reviews dominant practices that deal with new forms of historiography. It does so by offering digital
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Photography, sport and the hegemony of men: a material(-)discursive perspective Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Daniel Alsarve
ABSTRACT In this article, the focus is on a theoretical discussion about how to analyse masculinities and power in historical research based on imagery and visual sources from a material-discursive point of departure. The argument is that analysing photographs in sport and the material-discursive representation of men/masculinities could contribute to a broader understanding of men’s hegemony. The
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Burial Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Stephen David Engel
ABSTRACT The following is an historical fiction about a burial that took place in Sunghir, Russia, circa 32,000 B.C.E. It is historical in the sense that it is based on archaeological evidence of the grave. It is fiction in the sense that it invents a story around the grave that has no substrate in an archive. Since the grave's excavation in 1969, many archaeologists have interpreted it as an early
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Historical irrealism: Paul A. Roth and the epistemic value of narrative explanation Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Verónica Tozzi Thompson
Published in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2023)
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Experiments in history: the voice of Bondi Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Douglas Booth
ABSTRACT How might we distil the meaning of a place amid a myriad of competing representations, perspectives and narratives? In this article, I address this question with a case study of Bondi Beach, Australia. Bondi is a synecdoche for an Australian beach lifestyle, and for urban congestion, dysfunction and the destruction of the natural world. I argue that appeals to historical facts, which are invariably
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Complexity and materiality in representations of reality Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Kalle Pihlainen
ABSTRACT The article proceeds from the assumption that poststructuralism contains an ethical dimension despite contrary claims by many of its critics. This ethics can be seen in the poststructuralist refusal of representation and, importantly, allows for representative interventions when their benefits are assumed to outweigh any conceivable harm. As an elaboration of this ethics, the aim is to defend
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Historiography as readymade Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Luis De Mussy
ABSTRACT The aim of this essay is to interrogate the possibility of a wake in historiographical practice, especially in written form, by juxtaposing reflections on the theory and philosophy of history at the close of the first quarter of the twenty-first century with the avant-garde movement of the early twentieth. To this end, I establish a dialogue between the Dada and Surrealist artistic avant-gardes’
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Trauma, modernism, realism: a genealogy, the middle voice Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Miguel Valderrama
ABSTRACT This article presents a first outline on the relations between the middle voice and the century that staged it as a novelty or an archaic repetition. The middle voice has the trace of a dispute in historiography. It announces an alteration or interruption in the modern regime of historical representation. At least, it seems to be clear from the use of this expression by philosophers, historians
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The role of empathy in bridging Western and Indigenous knowledges: Dominick LaCapra and Ailton Krenak Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Taynna M. Marino
ABSTRACT This article rethinks the problems of empathy in historical theory in the context of current discussions about environmental problems, relations between humans and nonhumans as well as Western and Indigenous knowledges. The category of ‘empathic unsettlement’, coined by the theorist of history Dominick LaCapra, is presented to address the role of empathy as a way to know, engage and narrate
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The other side of the linguistic turn: theory of history and the negotiation of humanity Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 María Inés La Greca
ABSTRACT We have witnessed in the field of theory of history an effort to come to terms with its past, namely, the linguistic turn and the specific narrativist debate that emerged after Hayden White’s Metahistory. However, ‘linguistic turn’ refers to a broader shift in twentieth-century Humanities. In the writings by Joan W. Scott, we find a paradigmatic intersection between theory of history, gender
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Disappearance and archive fevers in film: the rewriting of history and practical uses of the past Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Natalia Taccetta
ABSTRACT In Figural Realism. Studies in the Mimesis Effect, Hayden White argues that the theory of historical writing must attend to what the author characterizes as modernist events. He is thinking about the World Wars, genocides, the overwhelming growth of world population, the widespread poverty in most of the global population and famines on an unimaginable scale, among other factors linked to
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Kibbutz Buchenwald: history and fiction Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 L. Naishtat Bornstein
ABSTRACT The article highlights the central role that fictional, poetic, and artistic forms play in the construction and understanding of Kibbutz Buchenwald, a little-known episode that took place between 1945–1955 in which a group of 16 Jewish Holocaust survivors came together to build a kibbutz in Israel. The group was formed in Germany immediately after liberation, and after a number of years of
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George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo: semiotic explorations of Abraham Lincoln in American cultural memory Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Marleen Hiltrop, Sara Polak
ABSTRACT This paper offers a semiotic analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s role in American cultural memory by addressing the interaction in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) between Lincoln’s two roles as a larger than life persona and a relatable ‘common’ man. By using the literary tropes of synecdoche and metonym, and Ernst Kantorowicz’s notion of the King’s two bodies (‘body natural’ and ‘body
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The histories we tell: historical consciousness and student protests in a Chilean public high school Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Rodrigo Mayorga
ABSTRACT In the last fifteen years, high schoolers became key actors in the Chilean political landscape, as members of anti-neoliberal and feminist social movements. Although social researchers have paid increasing attention to them, few have analyzed how these young people relate to and make use of history in the context of their political struggles. Combining an ethnographic and a microhistorical
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The canon in history Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Jaume Aurell
ABSTRACT From the 1970s onwards, postmodern, postcolonial and feminist criticism has reactivated the disapproval of the canon. Its academic and pedagogical usefulness remains challenged by historians who have generally been skeptical of its critical worth, its role as an instrument of hierarchization and standard of quality. Both the justification for the existence of the canon in history – which affects
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`They are also victims of the war´: heritage narratives of the Nazis and their victims in Finland Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Tuuli Matila, Vesa-Pekka Herva
ABSTRACT This article engages with the contemporary perceptions and representations of the Finnish cooperation with Nazis during World War II. The Finnish-German relations were complicated during the war, as Finland was first an ally of Germany but later turned against the German troops in the country. Focusing primarily on the uses of photographs, personal memoirs and oral histories in museum exhibitions
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‘Tawaifnama’ or The Courtesan Chronicles Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Tanya Burman
Published in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2022)
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The Anthropocene as a historical hyperobject Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Daniel Rueda
ABSTRACT The notion of the Anthropocene has gained momentum in many academic disciplines in the last couple of decades. Yet it seems that history, both as a human science and a political frame, fails to come to terms with this new geological epoch in which the distinction between humanity and nature blurs. Employing the concept of ‘hyperobject’, this article argues that such collision is not an accident
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Material records of the Anthropocene. A surface-oriented approach Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Mikołaj Smykowski, Monika Stobiecka
ABSTRACT This paper discusses new types of naturecultural heritage that have emerged during the Anthropocene. The authors trace and analyze novel records of the ongoing geological event and propose a method of surface-oriented ethnography to investigate heritage in the Anthropocene. We argue that rethinking history in the Anthropocene means to think through new forms of heritage that emerge in the
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Reflections: on writing and being written about Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Paul A. Roth
ABSTRACT How did I come to write about the problems that I do? Certain accidents of fate determinatively impacted both my enduring intellectual interests as well as my opportunities to pursue them. Philosophy proved to provide an academic home that accommodated my peculiar interests. In this regard, a quote from White’s ‘Burden of History’ captured a challenge that I long sought to address: ‘We choose
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Waste and historicity in the Anthropocene Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Zachary Riebeling
ABSTRACT This article argues that historical existence in the Anthropocene is constituted by waste. As both act and product waste increasingly dominate natural, social, and political environments. The Anthropocene as a threshold in natural history then is inseparable from the profusion of waste that has accompanied its rise. Our insatiable wastefulness and our reforming of the planet with trash in
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The historian is present: live interactive documentary as collaborative history Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Kim Nelson
ABSTRACT Historical narratives seek to give us a shared reality, argued through recourse to evidence. Both impulses are under threat in the Age of the Anthropocene. This article introduces Live Interactive Documentary, a ‘performance dissemination’ model for history that deploys digital tools to merge cinema and lecture into a new form. It is designed to respond to Hayden White’s challenge in ‘The
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Using fiction to tell mad stories: a journey into historical imagination and empathy Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Kira A. Smith
ABSTRACT In this article, the author explores larger themes of empathy, imagination, and the historian’s craft through her process of writing a novella entitled The Red Chair. This historical fiction is about the psychiatric patients at the Brockville Asylum (Brockville, Ontario, Canada), and explores the daily lives of many inmates. It emerges from her Master’s Research Project, where the author sought
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Metamorphoses of the past: a study of Primo Levi´s The Periodic Table Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Pedro Caldas
ABSTRACT The Periodic Table (1975), by Primo Levi, is divided into 21 chapters in which the author recounts episodes of his life as a chemist in a linear chronological order. The idea of linearity might suggest a slow pulling away from the past, an issue that can be problematized in at least three chapters (‘Uranium’, ‘Silver’, and ‘Vanadium’), where Levi meets characters that lead him to speak again
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The notes, the markings: along the margins of the years Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Carolyn Steedman
ABSTRACT The focus is the historiography of Virginia Woolf’s The Years (1937) and her intention to produce a ‘history-novel’ that contained ‘everything’. Modern English-language novelists (popular and literary) also invent characters that embody a preoccupation with the philosophy of history, with the idea of time and duration; sometimes these characters are historians, who are used to inscribe method
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Beyond truth: an epistemic normativity for historiography Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum
ABSTRACT How can we compare two historical narratives about the same occurrence when each of the narratives satisfies the criteria of truth but nevertheless, portray incongruent views about the past? To answer such a question, we can identify a conservative view in history that commits to a correspondence theory of the past that argues that the scrutiny of the primary and secondary sources alongside
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Fall of a tyrant, or heroic last stand? Tipu Sultan and the moral undercurrent in historiography Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Sameer Ahmed
ABSTRACT What does morality have to do with history? Should the past be pluralised as a heuristic category? Might we disengage common representational tropes from historical events otherwise remembered in mutually contradictory ways? This study attempts to answer these questions by narrowing in on the contested legacy of Tipu Sultan of Mysore (1750–1799). Tipu is remembered today both as a proto-anticolonial
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A buried river, an emerging crisis, a cumulative tale Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Melanie A. Kiechle
ABSTRACT As climate change alters our cities, a better knowledge of past environments is necessary to understand current flooding patterns and anticipate future ones. This cumulative tale is a narrative riff on the comparison between history and archaeology, that each dig into layers of time and soil, respectively. By starting at the surface of a present-day flooding issue and digging into both the
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War, transgenerational memory and documentary film: mediated and institutional memory in historical culture Rethinking History (IF 1.173) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Jukka Kortti
ABSTRACT This article makes use of history documentary films to examine mediated historical culture and memory narrated by media. It particularly focuses on transgenerational dimensions of memory in media representations – the idea of how collective memories are transmitted through media to a second generation of people who did not directly experience the actual events but who nonetheless have often