What is public history globally? : working with the past in the present
Title:
What is public history globally? : working with the past in the present
Author:
Ashton, Paul, 1959- editor, contributor.
ISBN:
9781350033290
9781350033283
Physical Description:
xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The public turn: history today / Public history in Australia: history in place / Public history in Britain: repossessing the past / Public history in Canada: public service or public service? / Public history in China: past making in the present / Public history in Germany: opening new spaces / Public history in India: towards a people's past / Public history in Indonesia: the old disorder? / Public history in New Zealand: from treaty to Te Papa / Public history in Scandinavia: uses of the past / Public history in South Africa: a tool for recovery / Public history in the United States: institutionalizing old practices / First encounters: approaching the public past / Affective afterlives: public history, archaeology and the material turn / The archaeological archive: material traces and recovered histories / Archives and public history: a developing partnership / 'Speak, memory': current issues in oral and public history / Who do you think you are? the family in public history / Love thy neighbour: local and community history / Grassroots activism, heritage and the cultural landscape: the loud fences campaign / Past continuous: digital public history through social media and photography / Remembering dark pasts and horrific places: sites of conscience / #Fake history: the state of heritage interpretation / 'The air still rings with the excitement of Spanish life': Ybor City and the Cuban cigar / Forgetting and remembering in Bhopal: architects as agents of memory
Abstract:
Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-356) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10802706 D16.163 W43 ysh