Making Histories

Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020

Making Histories

Edited by: Paul Ashton , Tanya Evans and Paula Hamilton

Volume 1 in the series Public History in International Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636352

Overview
Contents

About this book

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 21^st 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‘.

Author / Editor information

Paul Ashton, Tanya Evans, and Paula Hamilton, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Making Histories, Making Memories in Difficult Times Paula Hamilton, Paul Ashton and Tanya Evans Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Part I: Resistance, Rights, Authority
Chapter 1. The Urgency for a Queer Public History in Highly Conservative Societies: A Brazillian Exhibition Andre Freixo, Benito Schmidt and Leticia Bauer Publicly Available Download PDF	11
Chapter 2. Between Authority and Dialogue: Challenges for the House of European History Christine Dupont Publicly Available Download PDF	23
Chapter 3. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: Intersections of History, Memory and Politics Paweł Machcewicz Publicly Available Download PDF	37
Chapter 4. Citizens: Eight Hundred Years in the Making Steven Franklin and Matthew Smith Publicly Available Download PDF	47
Chapter 5. Trust, Risk and Historical Authority: Negotiating Public History in Digital and Analog Worlds James B. Gardner Publicly Available Download PDF	59
Part II: Public Memory and Commemoration
Chapter 6. The Memory of Trade Unionism in Germany Stefan Berger Publicly Available Download PDF	71
Chapter 7. Digital Historiographies of Khmer Rouge Memorials: Blogging on Tuol Sleng and the ‘Killing Fields’ Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier Publicly Available Download PDF	83
Chapter 8. Public Memory, Conflict and Women: Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland Laura McAtackney Publicly Available Download PDF	99
Chapter 9. Belene: A Case of Pedagogy of Memory? Daniela Koleva Publicly Available Download PDF	113
Part III: Performance, Transmission, Reception
Chapter 10. Public History and the “Crisis of History” in Italy: Reflections and Experiences from the Field Chiara Ottaviano Publicly Available Download PDF	129
Chapter 11. The Occupation and Beyond: Presenting, Doing and Watching History on Dutch Television Since 1960 Paul Knevel Publicly Available Download PDF	139
Chapter 12. Gaming Public History: Academics and Digital Games Nico Nolden Publicly Available Download PDF	151
Chapter 13. District Six: The Musical David Kramer Publicly Available Download PDF	163
Chapter 14. Trip Hazards: The Perils of Urban Walking Tours Mark Dunn and Lisa Murray Publicly Available Download PDF	173
Chapter 15. Making Public History in Italy Serge Noiret Publicly Available Download PDF	185
Chapter 16. Crowdsourcing: Citizen History and Criminal Characters Alana Piper Publicly Available Download PDF	199
Part IV: Family/Self
Chapter 17. Self-writing in Tral: Struggles in Historymaking in (Indian) Kashmir Chitralekha Publicly Available Download PDF	213
Chapter 18. Place-attachment in a Suburban Setting: Making Personal History Public Steve Brown Publicly Available Download PDF	225
Chapter 19. Family Historians and Historians of the Family: The Value of Collaboration Laura King and Jessica Hammett Publicly Available Download PDF	237
Chapter 20. “Resourceful Reinvention”: Speculative Biography as Public History? Kiera Lindsey Publicly Available Download PDF	251
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	261
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 285
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: Memory; Performance; Resistance

eBook

Published: September 21, 2020
ISBN: 9783110636352

Hardcover

Published: September 21, 2020
ISBN: 9783110632439