Making Histories / / ed. by Tanya Evans, Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Ashton, Paul,; Bauer, Leticia,; Benzaquen-Gautier, Stéphanie,; Berger, Stefan,; Brown, Steve,; Chitralekha,,; Dunn, Mark,; Dupont, Christine,; Evans, Tanya,; Franklin, Steven,; Freixo, Andre,; Gardner, James B.,; Hamilton, Paula,; Hammett, Jessica,; King, Laura,; Knevel, Paul,; Koleva, Daniela,; Kramer, David,; Lindsey, Kiera,; Machcewicz, Paweł,; McAtackney, Laura,; Murray, Lisa,; Noiret, Serge,; Nolden, Nico,; Ottaviano, Chiara,; Piper, Alana,; Schmidt, Benito,; Smith, Matthew,
• HerausgeberIn: Ashton, Paul,; Evans, Tanya,; Hamilton, Paula,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Public History in International Perspective , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 285 p.)

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 21st 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‘.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Making Histories, Making Memories in Difficult Times -- Part I: Resistance, Rights, Authority -- Chapter 1. The Urgency for a Queer Public History in Highly Conservative Societies: A Brazillian Exhibition -- Chapter 2. Between Authority and Dialogue: Challenges for the House of European History -- Chapter 3. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: Intersections of History, Memory and Politics -- Chapter 4. Citizens: Eight Hundred Years in the Making -- Chapter 5. Trust, Risk and Historical Authority: Negotiating Public History in Digital and Analog Worlds -- Part II: Public Memory and Commemoration -- Chapter 6. The Memory of Trade Unionism in Germany -- Chapter 7. Digital Historiographies of Khmer Rouge Memorials: Blogging on Tuol Sleng and the ‘Killing Fields’ -- Chapter 8. Public Memory, Conflict and Women: Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland -- Chapter 9. Belene: A Case of Pedagogy of Memory? -- Part III: Performance, Transmission, Reception -- Chapter 10. Public History and the “Crisis of History” in Italy: Reflections and Experiences from the Field -- Chapter 11. The Occupation and Beyond: Presenting, Doing and Watching History on Dutch Television Since 1960 -- Chapter 12. Gaming Public History: Academics and Digital Games -- Chapter 13. District Six: The Musical -- Chapter 14. Trip Hazards: The Perils of Urban Walking Tours -- Chapter 15. Making Public History in Italy -- Chapter 16. Crowdsourcing: Citizen History and Criminal Characters -- Part IV: Family/Self -- Chapter 17. Self-writing in Tral: Struggles in Historymaking in (Indian) Kashmir -- Chapter 18. Place-attachment in a Suburban Setting: Making Personal History Public -- Chapter 19. Family Historians and Historians of the Family: The Value of Collaboration -- Chapter 20. “Resourceful Reinvention”: Speculative Biography as Public History? -- Bibliography -- Index