Using and Misusing Historical Sources in the Media

2012 ◽  
pp. 259-266
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals Con Dao island through the eyes of Saigon ‘s press before 1975

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-107
Author(s):  
Linh Kieu Duong
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Evaluation

For historians, the media is an important historical source. Con Dao is a special province of Vietnam. The paper presents an approach to Con Dao through historical sources of the Saigon press before 1975 to have a more comprehensive view. Through the content as the name implies, through natural, economic, social and cultural conditions, and potential development evaluation, the original intentions of the government of The Republic of Saigon on prison issues and on the terror cannot be changed. Through a number of important events such as the return of prisoners of war from Con Dao in 1973, etc. the author aims to add a view and wish to confirm the value of historical sources of media while approaching and presenting a problem of history, and so on.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF ALIENATION OF PEASANTS FROM THE LAND IN THE PERIOD FROM THE MID-1960s TO THE MID-1980s THROUGH THE PRISM OF “VILLAGE PROSE” WRITERS’ JOURNALISTIC WORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-822
Author(s):  
D. V. Ivanchuk
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Agrarian Policy ◽  
Inferiority Complex ◽  
Centralized Planning ◽  
The Media

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of alienation of peasants from the land in the period from the mid-1960s to mid-1980s in the context of the agrarian policy carried out during these years. The analysis of the complex nature of this problem is given on the basis of the extensive material of journalistic works by “village prose” writers, on the basis of archival and other historical sources. The author identifies and studies reasons for the alienation of the peasantry from the land in those years, such as: further stateization, centralization and concentration of agricultural production; its centralized planning; introduction of guaranteed wages; negative impact from the media and popular culture; rural inferiority complex; lack of brides in the countryside; the policy of eliminating unpromising villages.

Containment and Contagion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Mayblin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
The Media ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This chapter concerns the contradiction in modern Catholicism that women can be God-like but not priest-like. Drawing on research into the Roman Catholic Women Priest movement, it explores how this contradiction persists through the manipulation of metaphors of contagion and containment in relation to notions of sin and virtue. Just as the sins of the one couple (Adam and Eve) contaminate the many and for generations thereafter, the moral failures of any one individual, by analogy, can be applied metaphorically to all of humankind. Yet grace, too, can be contagious, spreading among persons (underlying certain Catholic models of religious practice). Problems arise when some people’s sins turn out to be more contagious than others. Through a mixture of ethnographic and historical sources, the discussion traces how sin and grace are differently containable or contagious according to gender. The infinite manipulability of this sin/grace complex helps to illuminate how opposition to the ordination of women remains institutionally entrenched even as male sex-abuser priests have come to dominate the media. The chapter concludes that Catholicism’s multiform problems with gender are reproduced via this politics of contagion and containment, and that radical repercussions are at stake in sin’s containment.

scholarly journals Clearing, “Wasting,” and Regreening: An Environmental History of Bare Hills in Central Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1037-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Tree Plantations ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Environmental Footprints ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Exotic Tree ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

A recent trend of regreening formerly bare hills in central Vietnam is often described in the media as a form of recovery from 1960s wartime destruction. However, this modern framework of wartime “wasting” and regreening obscures a longer history of bare hills. Colonial explorers noted eroded slopes in 1877, and imperial land surveyors described stretches of “idle, fallow land” decades earlier. This article describes a longer history of a “wasteland” not only to challenge a presentist framing of environmental decline but also to recognize the historic roles people played in producing these spaces, often in response or resistance to state policies. Colonial engagements with land clearing and customary uses of “open” lands gave shape to colonial visions of “wasteland” and later spurred colonial environmentalist critiques, even calls for a new form of green colonialism via exotic tree plantations. Writing the history of such a “wasteland” is one way to decenter imperial, colonial, and nationalist teleologies that tend to emphasize the environmental “footprints” of state actions but not the reverse. This history of “bare hills” draws from a mix of historical sources to show how people produced this “wasteland” and why, at times, they maintained it despite state efforts at reclamation.

scholarly journals Ostatni krzyżowcy – brytyjskie działania militarne w sandżaku Jerozolimy w 1917 r. i ich wybrane aspekty propagandowe

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Mroczkowski ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Great War

Today the Great War of 1914–1918 is seen – mainly – as a politically and militarily traumatic experience on a universal scale, which gave rise to great changes in the 20th century. Less often it is perceived as an individual, traumatizing or civic experience. We are not able - as confirmed not only by historians or sociologists but also psychologists – to "comprehend" the overall view of the reality of that time. We try to recreate it for better or worse based on various historical sources, and these largely reflected the personal attitude to events or its propaganda view. They were also prepared – in a larger or smaller way – by journalists, censors, politicians and military personnel. In the years preceding the outbreak of the Great War, many civilization achievements of the era were tested and introduced on a mass scale, such as modern media or fine arts in the services of power, nationalism skilfully controlled through the media. The turn of the twentieth century was an era of the mass press, and thus, faster transmission of transmitted information. This was conducive to the conduct of effective political propaganda – all the more necessary in the face of the Great War. It also took various forms. Often used were the explicitly associated symbols remaining at the interface between the military and religion. This became particularly evident during the Palestinian Campaign of Sir General Edmund Allenby.

scholarly journals Národní muzeum pohledem Československé televize ve druhé polovině 20. století

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Jiří Hadaš
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
National History ◽  
Media Image ◽  
News Service ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scientific Platform ◽  
Opinion Journalism

Based on historiographical procedures and methods used in the field of media science, a research was conducted, through quantitative and qualitative analysis, on unique historical sources in the form of television programs which provided information on the National Museum. In the selected period, which is delimited by the year 1953, when television broadcasting began in Czechoslovakia and the year 1993, an analysis of these media was undertaken focusing on their use as historical sources. In the period under review, a genre diversity was detected, which offered news service, opinion journalism, educational programs and entertainment. Through historical sources, valuable in today’s perspective, these programs formed the media image of the National Museum as an institution with a rich past closely linked to national history and as an irreplaceable scientific platform.

Historical Buildings And Facilities Of Moscow As An Object Of Private Investment

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private Investment ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

In the article, the author addresses the problems of private investment in the restoration of historical and cultural monuments. Features of the state support of activity of restorers are considered. The legislative aspects of this problem are analyzed, the issues of the history of urban planning, the history of the creation of architectural monuments within the boundaries of Moscow are touched upon. The author reveals contradictions arising from the implementation of private investment programs for the restoration of cultural heritage objects. The paper analyzes the main legal aspects of the formation of a favorable social-economic climate for investment in the restoration of monuments in the metropolitan area. It takes into account not only the positive experience in the implementation of the capital restoration programs, but also the difficulties associated with the conflict of interests arising during the restoration works. At the same time, the role of private investors in the restoration of architectural structures is defined as ambiguous. The article used the methods of comparative analysis of historical sources, legal acts, news materials in the media, not only printed, but also audio-visual. In some cases, statistic data reflected in the metropolitan press and on electronic portals of public organizations are taken into account. The results of the study can be taken into account when training architectural historians, civil engineers and restorers.

scholarly journals THE MANAGEMENT OF AGITATION AND PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN IZMAIL REGION UkrSSR IN 1944–1945

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Viktor Drozdov
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
The Media ◽  
Regional Committee ◽  
Historical Comparative

The work aims to study the formation of a system of ideological influence on the Izmail region’s population in 1944–1945. Based on archival sources and materials of the regional press, the tasks of agitation and propaganda activities, the general forms and methods used by the Communist Party to spread ideology among the population of the annexed region were revealed. The author paid particular attention to determining the role of the regional party leadership in managing and conducting agitation and propaganda. The methodology. The study is based on the principles of historicism, scientificity, objectivity, systematics, specificity, and reliance on historical sources. With the aid of the historical-typological method, it was possible to determine the main tasks, forms, and methods of agitation and propaganda. The historical-comparative method opens the way to reveal the peculiarities of ideological work with various categories of the citizens and to determine the specific features of the Communist Party’s agitation and propaganda activities in the Izmail region. The application of historical-systemic and historical-genetic methods contributed to the consideration of various measures to ideologize the population in co-relation, to identify the causal links between the methods and results of propaganda policy. The scientific novelty. For the first time, a comprehensive analysis of agitation and propaganda activities in the Izmail region after the territory was returned to the USSR has been carried out. The conclusions. The analysis of the party documentation of the Izmail regional committee of the Communist Party gives reason to assume that immediately after the region returned to the USSR, the Soviet leadership launched active information and propaganda activities among the population. During 1944–1945, a network of agitation teams, groups of lecturers and speakers was formed to spread communist ideology among various segments of the population, a system of party propaganda bodies was created, events to celebrate new Soviet holidays were organized, and radio broadcasting and adaptation for the cinema were organized. The media, cultural and educational institutions, Komsomol organizations, and pioneers played a significant role in propaganda activities. Propaganda and agitation departments established at the region, city, and district committees of the Communist Party were constantly monitoring the ideological activity progress.

Media and massacre: The Hashimpura event, 1987

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-222
Author(s):  
Shuchi Yadav
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
Political Weekly

On 22 May 1987, at least 42 Muslims in Meerut (in UP) were brutally massacred by the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC). A massive cover-up was staged where sections of the media, state and its agencies seem to have colluded to conceal the massacre from public knowledge. As a result, for 28 years, Hashimpura massacre was hardly remembered except for some important articles in the reputed Economic and Political Weekly. It was in 2015 that the news media woke up to the event when a court judgement came acquitting the accused, while admitting the fact of mass murder. The whole episode casts doubt on the value of newspapers and media as historical sources.

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