Mark Donnelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 4028680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Donnelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Donnelly |
| SIGNATURE | DONNELLY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Mary's University Twickenham London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The point is, history sells’
In this article we aim to work in the political direction that Martin Davies’s critique of history-focused-behaviour opened up. More specifically, we apply Davies’s thinking to a discussion of recent UK governments’ heritage policies and preferred types of heritage discourse. After an initial overview of how heritage is instrumentalised for political and financial purposes in the present, we move on to discuss two case studies of heritage work in…
Thinking the past politically
This article explores the socio-political, economic and legal implications of what counts as historical knowledge. Academic history has long been practiced as if its value and authority reside in its ability to produce truth, but pretending that that history occupies an epistemologically foundational position is an illusion that needs to be abandoned. History is a discourse whose sources of cultural power are ultimately social and institutional. …
Why the difference
David Cannadine believes that historians have spread a false idea about people’s tendency to organize themselves into mutually antagonistic groups. Historians, he states, prefer to emphasize confro
In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities
This article discusses the conceptualisation, organisation and philosophical orientation of academic history culture in UK higher education. It problematises the extent to which a dominant history culture in UK universities implies and uncritically reproduces normative understandings about the subject; about its epistemological standing, sociopolitical functions, and the presumed cultural value of the discipline practices that students learn to p…
London calling
by Barry Miles, London, Atlantic Books, 2011, xii + 468 pp. (paper), ISBN 978 184354 6146 Barry Miles has written an idiosyncratic, anecdotal, and often nostalgic commentary on what he regards as a
The Death of Christian Britain
In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities
This article discusses the conceptualisation, organisation and philosophical orientation of academic history culture in UK higher education. It problematises the extent to which a dominant history culture in UK universities implies and uncritically reproduces normative understandings about the subject; about its epistemological standing, sociopolitical functions, and the presumed cultural value of the discipline practices that students learn to p…
Thinking the past politically
This article explores the socio-political, economic and legal implications of what counts as historical knowledge. Academic history has long been practiced as if its value and authority reside in its ability to produce truth, but pretending that that history occupies an epistemologically foundational position is an illusion that needs to be abandoned. History is a discourse whose sources of cultural power are ultimately social and institutional. …
The Death of Christian Britain
London calling
by Barry Miles, London, Atlantic Books, 2011, xii + 468 pp. (paper), ISBN 978 184354 6146 Barry Miles has written an idiosyncratic, anecdotal, and often nostalgic commentary on what he regards as a
Why the difference
David Cannadine believes that historians have spread a false idea about people’s tendency to organize themselves into mutually antagonistic groups. Historians, he states, prefer to emphasize confro
In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities
This article discusses the conceptualisation, organisation and philosophical orientation of academic history culture in UK higher education. It problematises the extent to which a dominant history culture in UK universities implies and uncritically reproduces normative understandings about the subject; about its epistemological standing, sociopolitical functions, and the presumed cultural value of the discipline practices that students learn to p…
Thinking the past politically
This article explores the socio-political, economic and legal implications of what counts as historical knowledge. Academic history has long been practiced as if its value and authority reside in its ability to produce truth, but pretending that that history occupies an epistemologically foundational position is an illusion that needs to be abandoned. History is a discourse whose sources of cultural power are ultimately social and institutional. …
The point is, history sells’
In this article we aim to work in the political direction that Martin Davies’s critique of history-focused-behaviour opened up. More specifically, we apply Davies’s thinking to a discussion of recent UK governments’ heritage policies and preferred types of heritage discourse. After an initial overview of how heritage is instrumentalised for political and financial purposes in the present, we move on to discuss two case studies of heritage work in…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works)