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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Uncertainty and Power: Rumours as Historical Events in Europe and North America
DESCRIPTION:Rumours classically enjoy a bad reputation: as imaginative embellishments on stories or as collective speculations in times of unclear information, they seem to merely distract from objective facts or prevent a constructive discussion of history. For historians, however, they offer the possibility to better understand how historical actors, especially in crisis situations and communicative states in emergency, tried to make sense of their environment and thereby gained agency. The role of rumours, false reports and uncertain knowledge, however, goes beyond purely functional "emergency solutions": they served as distractions and entertainment, they could be used strategically or tactically to exert political influence, they can be used to analyze the values and fears of historical actors, they were imaginaries of the future, hope and fears and they had a socially inclusive and exclusionary effect. With these emotive and socially constructive qualities, rumours themselves go beyond the mere communication of historical circumstances or events - for historians, they themselves become events that performatively opened up spaces for action.
In our section, we will examine, from a comparative regional and cross-epochal perspective, the significance of rumours as forces of historical change. To what extent did rumours reflect an individual struggle to make sense of empirically uncertain situations? What do rumours tell us about the social realities and cultural images of past societies? Could rumours, as self-empowerment, also create truths?
Der Beitrag Uncertainty and Power: Rumours as Historical Events in Europe and North America erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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