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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2025] 25 Years “Provincializing Europe”. Not yet?
DESCRIPTION:In 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty published “Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference” (Princeton University Press), a book that ever since has stirred much debate about the dynamics of power in history and historiography. Critically engaging with the discipline of history and historical narrative form, the book’s key intervention was to stress the inadequacy and indispensability of European epistemologies and what this ambiguity and hegemony means for the writing of history. The book has been particularly welcomed by students and scholars of extra-European and global history as it became an invaluable tool to address previously excluded historical agents, marginalized historical agency, and silenced subaltern pasts. For people and places that had been assigned as “not yet” by the grand narratives of modernity, “Provincializing Europe” has signaled an exit route out of the “waiting room of history”. For everyone else it has provided an inevitable intellectual exercise to critically reflect on Eurocentrism and the blind spots as well as the asymmetries and dynamics of power it might create in their own research, especially within the discipline of history.
This panel discusses “Provincializing Europe” and how it has influenced researchers since its initial publication, a quarter century ago, and provide a forum to discuss the book and its impact among historians in Germany. We have invited scholars of Western as well as non-Western history, who grew up with “Provincializing Europe” throughout their academic careers. From South Asia, in which Dipesh Chakrabarty’s archival anker moors, to the histories of East Asia, Europe, Africa, the Pacific and North America, the panel is global in its scope and represents various theoretical approaches reaching from cultural, social and political history to global history and the history of everyday life. The panel is designed as a roundtable with a short introduction (5 minutes), three short presentations (3×10 minutes) about the historiographical practice of provincializing Europe in Germany, a short comment by Dipesh Chakrabarty himself (10 minutes), and open discussion with the audience (45 minutes).
Der Beitrag 25 Years “Provincializing Europe”. Not yet? erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2025.
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