scholarly journals Los giros en la Historia: función social de la historia y posmodernidad, un debate que no cesa

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 12-37
Author(s):  
John Jaime Correa Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Function ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Way

La Historia requiere asumir los nuevos debates contemporáneos, que desde la orilla crítica del posmodernismo se han hecho dentro del ámbito filosófico y de las ciencias sociales. Ello contribuye a revisar viejos presupuestos conceptuales y metodológicos, y permite establecer diálogos más fecundos, de tipo interdisciplinario, con problemáticas políticas, sociales o culturales, que desde el presente interpelan reiterativamente los modos como se ha interpretado el pasado. Y si bien, las corrientes críticas de la posmodernidad han puesto entre signos de interrogación el estatuto epistemológico de aquellos grandes relatos que pretendían explicar el pasado, la ciencia histórica no ha estado al margen de estos cuestionamientos, generando nuevas aperturas temáticas, como se pueden evidenciar en el campo de la historia cultural y los trabajos sobre memoria histórica. Palabras clave: posmodernidad, fin de la historia, metahistoria, función social de la historia, memoria.History twists: social function within the history and post-modernity, an endless debate. AbstractHistory requires facing the new modern debates, which from the post-modernism critical sight have been done within the philosophical and social sciences scope. This contributes to check old conceptual and methodological assumptions, and allows establishing more interdisciplinary fruitful dialogues, with political, social or cultural problems, which from the present reiteratively ask the way the past has been interpreted. Even though the post-modernism trends have questioned the epistemological statute of those great accounts which pretend to explain the past; the historic science has not been away of those issues by creating new topic opening-up, as evidenced in the cultural history field and the works about historical memory.Keywords: Post-modernity, End of History, Metahistory, Social Function of History, Memory. 

The End of History Museums: What's Plan B??

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary Carson
Keyword(s):  
Historic Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
End Of History ◽  
House Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Plan B ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Way

Abstract Are historic sites and house museums destined to go the way of Oldsmobiles and floppy disks?? Visitation has trended downwards for thirty years. Theories abound, but no one really knows why. To launch a discussion of the problem in the pages of The Public Historian, Cary Carson cautions against the pessimistic view that the past is simply passéé. Instead he offers a ““Plan B”” that takes account of the new way that learners today organize information to make history meaningful.

Futures Honed

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 118-134
Author(s):  
Barbara Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
The Past ◽  
Writing Theory ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
The Way

This chapter comprises an interview between Barbara Adam and the editors, and is followed by Adam’s ‘Honing Futures’, which is presented in four short verses of distilled theory. In the interview Adam reflects on thirty-five years of futures-thinking rooted in her deeply original work on time and temporality, and her innovative response to qualitative and linear definitions of time within the social sciences. The interview continues with a discussion of the way Adam’s thinking on futures intersects in her work with ideas of ethics and collective responsibility politics and concludes with a brief rationale for writing theory in verse form. In ‘Honing Futures’, a piece of futures theory verse form, Adam charts the movements and moments in considerations of the Not Yet and futurity’s active creation: from pluralized imaginings of the future, to an increasingly tangible and narrower anticipated future, to future-making as designing and reality-creating performance. Collectively, the verses identify the varied complex interdependencies of time, space, and matter with the past and future in all iterations of honing and making futures.

scholarly journals Implicações da noção de consciência histórica nas ciências humanas e sociais: um modo de projeção para o futuro e de posição em relação ao passado

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (68) ◽  
pp. 817-843
Author(s):  
Fábio César Junges ◽  
Tiago Anderson Brutti ◽  
Adair Adams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Siglo Xx

Implicações da noção de consciência histórica nas ciências humanas e sociais: um modo de projeção para o futuro e de posição em relação ao passado Resumo: O presente texto, de caráter bibliográfico, discute o problema da consciência histórica com o objetivo de pensar o sentido dessa expressão na atualidade e as variações que esse conceito adquiriu ao longo da história das Ciências Humanas e Sociais, com ênfase no século XX. A hipótese é que a discussão a respeito da consciência histórica passou a se ocupar, na modernidade, com uma múltipla relatividade de pontos de vista, o que é destacado por Gadamer em sua análise sobre os preceitos implicados na definição do que significa “ter senso histórico”. É defendida a tese, portanto, de que a noção de consciência histórica não se limita ao conhecimento das experiências vivenciadas no passado, mas se apresenta como condição de possibilidade de projetar o futuro e se posicionar em relação ao passado, especialmente no que diz respeito às ciências humanas e sociais. A defesa desta ideia central é realizada por meio de dois gestos reflexivos, com apresentação, primeiramente, do marco teórico da consciência histórica e, posteriormente, de suas implicações na constituição das Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Palavras-chave: Ciências humanas e sociais. Senso histórico. Passado. Futuro. Implications of the notion of historical consciousness in human and social sciences: a mode of projection for the future and position in relation to the past Abstract: This bibliographic text discusses the problem of historical consciousness with the purpose of thinking about the meaning of this expression in the present time and the variations that this concept has acquired throughout the history of the Humanities and Social Sciences, with emphasis on the twentieth century. The hypothesis is that the discussion about historical consciousness has come to concern itself, in modernity, with a multiple relativity of points of view, which is highlighted by Gadamer in his analysis of the precepts involved in defining what “having a historical sense” means. Therefore, the thesis that the notion of historical consciousness is not limited to the knowledge of past experiences is defended, but is presented as a condition of possibility of projecting the future and positioning itself in relation to the past, especially with regard to humanities and social sciences. The defense of this central idea is made through two reflexive gestures, presenting, first, the theoretical framework of historical consciousness and, later, its implications in the constitution of the Human and Social Sciences. Keywords: Human and social sciences. Historical sense. Past. Future. Implicaciones de la noticia de conciencia histórica en las ciencias humanas y sociales: un modo de proyección para el futuro y de posición en relación al pasado Resumen: El presente texto, de carácter bibliográfico, discute el problema de la conciencia histórica con el propósito de pensar sobre el significado de esta expresión en la actualidad y las variaciones que este concepto ha adquirido a lo largo de la historia de las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales, con énfasis en el siglo XX. La hipótesis es que la discusión sobre la conciencia histórica ha llegado a ocuparse, en la modernidad, de una relatividad múltiple de puntos de vista, que Gadamer destaca en su análisis de los preceptos involucrados en la definición de lo que significa “tener un sentido histórico”. " Por lo tanto, se defiende la tesis de que la noción de conciencia histórica no se limita al conocimiento de experiencias pasadas, sino que se presenta como una condición de posibilidad de proyectar el futuro y posicionarse en relación con el pasado, especialmente con respecto a humanidades y ciencias sociales. La defensa de esta idea central se realiza a través de dos gestos reflexivos, presentando, primero, el marco teórico de la conciencia histórica y, luego, sus implicaciones en la constitución de las Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Palabras clave: Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Sentido histórico. Pasado. Futuro. Data de registro: 28/05/2019 Data de aceite: 24/10/2019

scholarly journals FORUM: CLOSENESS AND DISTANCE IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT INTRODUCTION

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN BREWER ◽  
SILVIA SEBASTIANI
Keyword(s):  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
History Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

According to Michel de Certeau, distance is the indispensable prerequisite for historical knowledge and the very characteristic of modern historiography. The historian speaks, in the present, about the absent, the dead, as Certeau labels the past, thus emphasizing the performative dimension of historical writing: “the function of language is to introduce through saying what can no longer be done.” As a consequence, the heterogeneity of two non-communicating temporalities becomes the challenge to be faced: the present of the historian, as a moment du savoir, is radically separated from the past, which exists only as an objet de savoir, the meaning of which can be restored by an operation of distantiation and contextualization. In Evidence de l’histoire: Ce que voient les historiens, François Hartog takes up the question of history writing and what is visible, or more precisely the modalities historians have employed to narrate the past, opening up the way to a reflection on the boundaries between the visible and the invisible: the mechanisms that have contributed to establish these boundaries over time, and the questions that have legitimized the survey of what has been seen or not seen. But, as Mark Phillips points out, it is the very ubiquity of the trope of distance in historical writings that has paradoxically rendered it almost invisible to historians, so that “it has become difficult to distinguish between the concept of historical distance and the idea of history itself.”

scholarly journals Epistemología nómada en las ciencias sociales: para una recapitulación y memoria de la complejidad

2018 ◽  
pp. 061-081
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Way

Resumen: Se señalan algunos elementos problemáticos, no resueltos aún por las ciencias sociales, que se desprenden de la noción de cultura establecida desde la mentalidad secularista dominante que tiene sus orígenes en la Ilustración y que ha condicionado y erosionado el reconocimiento de ontologías que esclarezcan el sentido de la actividad científica. Estas condiciones forman parte de la práctica de las ciencias sociales explicando la imposibilidad de vislumbrar de manera pragmática la vía por medio de la cual se logren integrar los conocimientos de las ciencias sociales. Dicha integración se manifestaría como una grieta de luz esperanzadora en la construcción societaria y en la generación de modelos culturales alternativos a los propuestos desde el discurso interpretativo dominante de corte efectivista. Palabras clave: Epistemología, ciencias sociales, cultura, sociedadEpistemology nomadic in Social Sciences: For a recapitulation and memory of complexity Abstract: Someproblematic elementsare reported, not yetresolved bythe social sciences thathave aroused fromthe notion of cultureestablishedfromthe dominantsecularistmentality thathas had its originsfrom the Enlightenment andthat have conditionedanderodedthe recognition ofalternativeontologies that can clarify the meaning of the scientific activity. These conditions are part of social sciences practices and explain the impossibility of catching pragmatically the way through witch to obtain integrity in the knowledge of social sciences. Such integration would manifest as hopefully as a crack of lightin the construction of society and in the generation of alternative cultural models to those proposed by the dominant interpretative discourse of effectivist type. Key words: Epistemology, social sciences, culture, society

Why History?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Bloxham
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Way

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes that their historical investigations have served. At the core of this work, whether it is addressing Herodotus, medieval religious exegesis, or twentieth-century cultural history, is the way that the present has been conceived to relate to the past. Alongside many changes in technique and philosophy, Donald Bloxham’s book reveals striking long-term continuities in justifications for the discipline. The volume has chapters on classical antiquity, early Christianity, the medieval world, the period spanning the Renaissance and the Reformation, the era of the Enlightenment, the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and developments down to the present. It concludes with a meditation on the point of history today.

Marxist Historiography Today

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Hobsbawm
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Methodology Of Science ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses Marxist historiography in the present times. In the interpretation of the world nowadays, there has been a rise in the so-called anti-Rankean reaction in history, of which Marxism is an important but not always fully acknowledged element. This movement challenged the positivist belief that the objective structure of reality was self-explanatory, and that all that was needed was to apply the methodology of science to it and explain why things happened the way they did. This movement also brought together history with the social sciences, therefore turning it into part of a generalizing discipline capable of explaining transformations of human society in the course of its past. This new perspective on the past is a return to ‘total history’, in which the focus is not merely on the ‘history of everything’ but history as an indivisible web wherein all human activities are interconnected.

Memory

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjørnar Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Involuntary Memories ◽  
The Way

It is common to claim that the past is gone, leaving us with a void that can only be filled by our historical reconstructions. Things, however, object to this modern, historicist conception of an ended past. By stubbornly lingering on they expose us to a present past which constantly gathers and thus sediments into potentially new environments of memory. Drawing on so-called symmetrical archaeology, this chapter explores how the conception of a gathering past allows-and impels-us to rethink the way we conceive of memory and the archaeological exposition of the past. Using the abandoned Soviet mining town of Pyramiden as a case study, the chapter considers how the ruins of our own time may trigger critical and involuntary memories-memories that illuminate what conventional cultural history has discarded.

scholarly journals Archaeology after the End of history

HISTOREIN ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Dimitris Plantzos
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Way

This paper offers a survey of the rapid changes observed in the field of archaeological theory in the last 20 years or so; in the midst of cataclysmic changes in the way scholars, and the public at large, attempt to comprehend the past, archaeologists have learnt to trust significantly less their valuable raw data and "facts", in favour of more nuanced accounts allowing for the complexity of the phenomena they study. More to the point, they slowly realise that, as historians, they are internal to the problems under their scrutiny. <br />

scholarly journals Radicalization

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Malthaner
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ideological Transformation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Foreign Fighters ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Jihadist Terrorism ◽  
The Way

AbstractOver the course of the past decade, “radicalization” has become prevalent as an analytical paradigm to interpret and explain phenomena of political violence, notably in research on jihadist terrorism and Western “foreign fighters” in Syria and Iraq. Thereby, while to some extent opening up new avenues of investigation, the concept also significantly re-shaped the way in which phenomena of political violence were analyzed and explained, focusing analytical attention on processes of cognitive and ideological transformation, mainly at the individual level. The purpose of this article is to examine some of the main strands of development in recent research on radicalization, with reference to and within the context of broader sociological research on political violence as well as reviewing critical debates and recently emerging sub-fields of investigation.

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