TY  - BOOK
AU  - Attwood,Bain
AU  - Bam,June
AU  - Berger,Stefan
AU  - Bevernage,Berber
AU  - Bragio Bonaldo,Rodrigo
AU  - De Baets,Antoon
AU  - Florentino Varella,Flávia
AU  - Kolesnik,Alexandra
AU  - Nicolazzi,Fernando
AU  - Petrović,Vladimir
AU  - Raphael,Lutz
AU  - Savelieva,Irina
AU  - Schulte Nordholt,Larissa
AU  - Sinha,Kanad
AU  - Stepanov,Boris
AU  - Tanner,Jakob
AU  - Verbergt,Marie-Gabrielle
AU  - Verbuyst,Rafael
AU  - Zachariah,Benjamin
TI  - Professional Historians in Public: Old and New Roles Revisited 
T2  - The Politics of Historical Thinking ,
SN  - 9783111185910
AV  - D13 
U1  - 907.2 23/eng/20230627
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - München, Wien : 
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 
KW  - Historians
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Public history
KW  - Engaged history
KW  - Expertise
KW  - Historiker
KW  - Public History
KW  - HISTORY / Study & Teaching
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - engaged history
KW  - historical expertise
N1  - Frontmatter --; The Politics of Historical Thinking --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 New Roles for Professional Historians and New Public Uses of the Past --; Part One: Histoires Engagées: A Critical Look Back --; 2 Eric Hobsbawm as a Public Champion of Cosmopolitan Universalism --; 3 Two Sides of Activist Scholarship Within UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1964–1998) --; 4 Colonial Historiography, Hindutva, and the Difficulty of Reading the Ancient Indian Historical Traditions --; Part Two: Law and Historical Expertise --; 5 Challenges of Historical Expert Witnessing in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Elsewhere --; 6 The Waitangi Tribunal and the Public Life of History --; Part Three: Old and New Public Demands on Professional Historians --; 7 Between Discipline and Profession: Historical Studies and Their Public Relevance in Brazil --; 8 Policy-Oriented History for the EU: The Rise of a New Type of Professional Practice for Historians? --; 9 Indigenous History, Activism, and the Decolonizing University: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Struggle over the Khoisan Past in Post-apartheid South Africa --; Part Four: Public History in New Media --; 10 Russian Public Historians in the New Media (The Case of Telegram) --; 11 Practices of Popular Science and Digital Curation in Theory of History on the Portuguese Edition of Wikipedia --; Part Five: Perspectives: Moral, Epistemic, and Political --; 12 Historians and Human Rights Advocacy --; 13 The Politics of Memory and the Task of Historians --; 14 Languages of Legitimation and the Registers of Legitimate History --; Biographical Notes --; Selected Bibliography on ‘Public Uses of the Past and the Role of Professional Historians in the Public Sphere’ --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The past decades public interest in history is booming. This creates new opportunities but also challenges for professional historians. This book asks how historians deal with changing public demands for history and how these affect their professional practices, values and identities. The volume offers a great variety of detailed studies of cases where historians have applied their expertise outside the academic sphere. With contributions focusing on Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe the book has a broad geographical scope. Subdivided in five sections, the book starts with a critical look back on some historians who broke with mainstream academic positions by combining their professional activities with an explicit political partisanship or social engagement. The second section focusses on the challenges historians are confronted with when entering the court room or more generally exposing their expertise to legal frameworks. The third section focuses on the effects of policy driven demands as well as direct political interventions and regulations on the historical profession. A fourth section looks at the challenges and opportunities related to the rise of new digital media. Finally several authors offer their view on normative standards that may help to better respond to new demands and to define role models for publicly engaged historians. This book aims at historians and other academics interested in public uses of history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111186047
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111186047
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