Ansel Wakamatsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 9957946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ansel Wakamatsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ansel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wakamatsu |
| SIGNATURE | WAKAMATSU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Can historians tell the truth? The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the quest for a new history
Following the Uluru Statement from the Heart, historians are again tasked with ‘telling the truth’ about past human rights abuses in Australia. However, I argue that such a demand is too simplistic, and it is better to understand historians as producers of impermanent historical narratives which are embedded in public memory through the historian’s discursive authority and the authority of a supporting truth commission
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Can historians tell the truth? The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the quest for a new history
Following the Uluru Statement from the Heart, historians are again tasked with ‘telling the truth’ about past human rights abuses in Australia. However, I argue that such a demand is too simplistic, and it is better to understand historians as producers of impermanent historical narratives which are embedded in public memory through the historian’s discursive authority and the authority of a supporting truth commission
Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Commission (1 work) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (1 work) · Narrative (1 work)