Hot Interpretation of Controversial Topics at Batoche National Historic Site, Saskatchewan, Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Glen T. Hvenegaard ◽  
Heather J. Marshall ◽  
Raynald Lemelin
Keyword(s):  
Affective Responses ◽  
Collaborative Management ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Historic sites can facilitate public interaction with controversial topics through “hot interpretation” that promotes affective responses. The goal of this article is to critically analyze the evolution of interpretive messaging of the armed resistance of 1885 at Batoche National Historic Site, Canada, through the lens of hot interpretation. Based on a literature review, interpretation evaluations, and site visits, the authors examine how collaborative management approaches have fostered an evolution in interpretation from the one-truth, to parallel narratives, and finally to the “many voices” approach within the hot interpretation framework. This overview suggest how collaborative management approaches and progressive interpretation strategies can heal the hurt of the past, validate various depictions of history, provide venues for democratic discourse about contested issues, generate new thinking, and support resilient communities.

scholarly journals Om religion og kognition

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin W. Geertz
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Science Of Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Neurological Research ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Cognitive Study ◽  
The Brain

“On Religion and Cognition: A Brief Historical and Thematic Introduction”. This article is a brief introduction to the cognitive study of religion. Ten problems are identified which serve as the backdrop of the article. These concern the problems of historical depth in the study of cognition; the increase of many different disciplinary approaches; the resultant termino­logical confusion; the weaknesses of the natural sciences in terms of the philosophy of science; the corresponding weaknesses of the cognitive science of religion in terms of the philosophy of science; the need to replace strategic triumphalism on the one hand and strategic isolationism on the other with strategic sobriety; the need to maintain that the study of religion concerns origins, functions, forms, meanings and structures as well as texts; the realization that the methodological tools accompanying cognitive approaches should be handled with care and prudence; the reduction of cognition exclusively to processes in the brain ignores recent neurological research that points to alternative models of cognition; and there are many more possibilities in cognitive research than have been acknowledged by the pioneers of cognitive approaches to the study of religion. The article briefly discusses the many histories of research in cognition during the past 150 years and illustrates various cognitive themes which might be fruitfully pursued by scholars of religion.

Heritage Religion and the Mormons

2020 ◽  
pp. 336-354
Author(s):  
Colleen McDannell
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
The Past ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Mormon Battalion ◽  
Heritage Industry

This chapter teases out the various ways that religion intersects with historical material culture to create “heritage religion.” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints maintains a series of “historic sites” across the United States. Like nonreligious historic sites, Latter-day Saint sites use material culture, historic re-enactments, educational videos, and sophisticated media technology to teach visitors about sacred places and histories. However, Latter-day Saint historic sites have the additional mission to spiritually uplift members and convert nonbelievers. By using recently renovated Mormon Battalion Historic site of San Diego as a case study, this chapter illustrates how the secular “heritage industry” and traditional religion merge to become “heritage religion.” Heritage religion is defined as a set of generic religious beliefs, cast into the past, and translated into media and material culture. Through heritage religion, faith communities use the past to make sense out of their present and craft an agenda for the future. “Heritage Religion and the Mormons” illustrates how a specific historic site can be constructed to convince visitors that they can easily understand the past because they share similar values and mutual struggles. Through material culture, history is made familiar and the complexities of interpretation fall away. Through heritage religion, church leaders for the Latter-day Saints can reinforce religious practices that resonate with wider American values and beliefs.

scholarly journals Remembering: A Narrative with Different Characters

ANVIL ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Lord's Supper ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Shared Narrative ◽  
Yad Vashem

Abstract I recently attended a conference at which a speaker from Romania posed this question: How do we transmit the memory of atrocities, victimhood dictatorship, to people who have already heard that story, only with different characters? In this article I take remembering in Northern Ireland as a story with different characters. A shared narrative to transmit the memory of what happened over thirty years of Northern Irelands Troubles remains to be told by and for the whole society. The purpose of a shared narrative is to contribute to a number of mechanisms that direct society to a future in which what happened in the past will never happen again. By a shared narrative I mean one that reflects the different characters and experiences, from different local experiences to different individual and community experiences. An agreed narrative is not possible at this time and perhaps that should never be the ambition for it would obscure the many characters within the one narrative. The kind of narrative that is shared may be defined as a ‘composite’ narrative that tells about individuals within the broader context of what was happening across Northern Ireland. It is important that remembering is understood to be narrative and not event, composite and not obscuring the characters involved. I will reflect on visits to Yad Vashem and the Kigali Memorial Centre as place where narrative was evoked about how to remember well for a better future where there has been conflict. I will share some of that challenges to remembering together in Northern Ireland and I will look to the Passover Seder and Lord's Supper for wisdom. I will conclude with some challenges to remembering as a contributor to peacemaking but without betrayal.

Clinical Science Editorial 2020 – a year gone by and the year ahead

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  
pp. 3233-3235
Author(s):  
Rhian M. Touyz
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Clinical Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Abstract As this extraordinary year, blemished by COVID-19, comes to an end, I look back as Editor-in-Chief to the many great successes and new initiatives of Clinical Science. Despite the challenges we all faced during 2020, our journal has remained strong and vibrant. While we have all adapted to new working conditions, with life very different to what it was pre-COVID-19, the one thing that remains intact and secure is the communication of scientific discoveries through peer-reviewed journals. I am delighted to share with you some of the many achievements of our journal over the past year and to highlight some exciting new activities planned for 2021.

Lord Also of the Sabbath

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Leitch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actual Fact ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
The One

The question of the Sabbath is still a living issue. Unfortunately it is also one that all too often becomes bogged down either in a legalism which prescribes a list of do's and don't's (mainly don't's), or in a humanism which leaves us to please ourselves. In between, there are many who are frankly puzzled. On the one hand they are not enthusiastic about the Scottish Sabbath of the past (though in actual fact our forefathers do not seem to have found it as grim and irksome in practice as we feel it must have been), while on the other hand they are apprehensive of what is commonly known as the ‘continental Sunday’. But there seems to be equally little promise in the nondescript hybrid which is fast emerging among us, and which has no definite character at all but is merely a part of the ‘weekend’. Obviously new thinking is urgently needed here. This article attempts a few steps in that direction. It takes its cue not from the fourth commandment, but from a Gospel passage (Mark 2.2–28) which in a sense points behind and before it and sets the whole question of the Christian Sabbath in a new light.

The Queerest House in Cambridge

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-69
Author(s):  
Hilary Iris Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
House Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
House Museum ◽  
Historic House ◽  
History Of

One of the great challenges for public historians in LGBTQ history is finding and developing interpretation of the history of sexuality for public audiences at current historic sites. This article answers this challenge by repositioning historic house museums as sites of some of the most important LGBTQ public history we have, by using the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a case study. At this house museum, we can re-see historical interpretation through a queer lens and take on histories that have been until recently “slandered, ignored, and erased” from our public narratives of the past.1

The one text in the many: separate and composite readings of an Early Chinese historical manuscript

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-492
Author(s):  
Rens Krijgsman ◽  
Paul Nicholas Vogt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Manuscript Culture ◽  
Warring States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Additional Layer ◽  
Shanghai Museum ◽  
Bamboo Slips ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Deep Sense

AbstractThe manuscript carrying the title Zhuangwang ji Cheng 莊王既成, from the Shanghai Museum corpus of bamboo slips, bears two related anecdotes concerning the early Chinese monarch King Zhuang of Chu. In this article, we translate both stories and offer interpretations of them both as individual texts and as a composite narrative, situating both readings in a context of intertextual references based on shared cultural memory. Approaching the anecdotes together, we argue, generates an additional layer of meaning, yielding both a deep sense of dramatic irony and a critique of the value of foreknowledge – and, by extension, of the explanatory value of historiography. In detailing how this layer of meaning is generated, we explore the range of reading experiences and approaches to understanding the past enabled by combining separate but related textual units, a prevalent mode of composition and consumption in the manuscript culture of Warring States China.

'I Order You to Adapt': Evaluating the Community Policing, French-Style

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Ferret
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
A Performance

AbstractThis article presents a meta-evaluation of the evaluative researches on the 'police de proximité' led in France over the past twenty years. Five certainties have been highlighted concerning the evaluation of these ambiguous forms of police: the many meanings behind the concept of 'community policing', the danger of a management by the 'numbers' to evaluate a performance, the two meanings of the word 'impact', the problematic idea of 'good practices' in matters of community policing and the misleading idea of the 'resistance to change' in police organisations. Furthermore, the evaluative research on the performance of police organisation will always be dependant two major constitutive doubts: the 'black box' of complex police organisations and the role of politics in the policies of the police. To conclude, we can say that on the one hand a technical form of evaluation exists but, also a politic form of police evaluation is more important in the western states, taking into consideration the 'politisation' of matters of security.

Theoretical Studies of Defects, Impurities, and Complexes in Semiconductors

1991 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan K. Estreicher
Keyword(s):  
Excited States ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Hartree Fock ◽  
The Past ◽  
Effective Particle ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Localized Defects ◽  
The One

ABSTRACTTheoretical studies of microscopic properties of localized defects, impurities, and complexes in semiconductors have greatly progressed in the past decade. Theory has advanced beyond “point” defects to include lattice relaxations and distortions, interactions between defects, complex formation, and even some extended structures. Vibrational frequencies, hyperfine parameters, and other measurable quantities are being calculated from first principles. Both the one-effective-particle density-functional approach and the all-electron Hartree-Fock methods are able to predict a variety of microscopic properties of defects at or near the ab initio level. However, despite the progress achieved, theoretical descriptions only approximate the real world. In this paper, an overview is given of the way these calculations are done and of the main approximations involved. Although some of them will be eliminated by progress in computer technology, other problems such as electron correlation or excited states are likely to require new thinking.

scholarly journals Historical experiences: A framework for encountering complex historical sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Zachrich ◽  
Allison Weller ◽  
Christine Baron ◽  
Christiane Bertram
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
The One ◽  
Language Literature

We encounter information about the past in everyday life through films, books and complex historical sources – such as historic sites or eyewitness accounts. Investigations of how visitors and learners engage with these complex historical sources have mainly focused on the ‘something special’ of the encounter on the one hand and on the clear cognitive engagement on the other. Yet, we know little about what and how learners and visitors learn from these complex historical sources and the resultant historical experiences. However, it is an important precondition for further theoretical and empirical research to fully understand these experiences. This article takes the first step in building an integrated model to understand from a situated embodied perspective the historical experiences derived from encounters with complex historical sources. Drawing on German- and English-language literature across related disciplines, we conceptualized the experience within an interplay of cognitive, affective and physical engagement. Within these dimensions, we identified responses that indicate the different elements of the historical experience and discuss limitations and avenues for further research.

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