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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] “History from below”: Controversies about New Perspectives in Historiography from the 1960s to the 1990s
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1960s, voices were raised in support of writing histories ‚from below’ in Western Europe, in the Eastern Bloc and the Global South: a perspectival move away from elites and big structures towards the cultural, the everyday, and the experiences of ordinary people, women, and the colonised. The best known of these approaches could be attributed to the British historian EP Thompson, whose ‚history from below’ focused on working class cultures and people’s movements. In France and Italy too, historiographical initiatives, such as historical anthropology, or microhistory, came into being. Of the countries of the global South, India was the most important centre of the new historiography, closely followed by historians in South Africa and Latin America. This movement of historiographical renewal was from the very beginning a conflictual field, under attack from representatives of the established conservative positions in the discipline, but also from the left, as it was suspected of substituting a politicisation of history with a depoliticisation and ‚culturalisation’ of history. The traces of this struggle for meaning can still be read today, as these directions in historiography are said to have been the occasion and impulse for the ‚cultural turn’ in historiographical production. The panel seeks to historicise the struggle for meaning and significance around this historiographical point of departure. More concretely, the panel asks: 1. What social, political and cultural problems and commitments motivated the different kinds of ‚history from below’? 2. What traditions and structures specific to the historical cultures of particular countries or areas and nation-state-centred historical writing contributed to their emergence? 3. What were the ways of circulation and translations which saw to it that these movements quickly found an international audience and became a global phenomenon beyond the western metropoles far quicker than older strains of historiography such as the Annales? 4. How did these movements change the public role of historians as political intellectuals in the countries or regions concerned?
Der Beitrag “History from below”: Controversies about New Perspectives in Historiography from the 1960s to the 1990s erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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