Berber Bevernage
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 951687 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Berber Bevernage |
| PRENOMES | Berber |
| SOBRENOME | Bevernage |
| ASSINATURA | BEVERNAGE B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3201-3119 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Claiming the People's Past
This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – ranging from Brazil to Bangladesh, from Poland to Tanzania. Five thematic chapters zoom in on key features of populism: its relation to time, national…
‘A passeidade do Passado’
É bem sabido que a noção de passeidade do passado é uma ideia central que sustenta a visão de mundo historicista. Recentemente, no entanto, a passeidade do passado se tornou uma grande preocupação acadêmica e política. Contra o pano de fundo de uma crescente atenção transnacional por memória e injustiça histórica, muitos comentadores notaram uma diluição da distinção entre passado e presente e uma crise da passeidade historicista. Embora eu certa…
The Pastness of the Past
Berber Bevernage’s thinking is centered on the concept of the pastness of the past, which is the basis of historicism. The need to rethink this concept has become evident because of the crisis in historical consciousness proclaimed by a number of theorists of history and because the boundaries between the past and the present became blurred when the presentist “broad present” (Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s term) became dominant. The author does not dem…
Negacionismo
Philosophy of History After 1945
Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different lang…
The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945
This chapter seeks to compare and contrast the series of legal cases that were launched by the Republic of Cyprus, both in domestic and international courts, in response to the coup d’état and the Turkish military invasion of 1974. An analysis of this case law suggests that the Republic of Cyprus reacted to the two events in very different ways: while the response to the coup was sporadic and disorganised, the legal action taken against Turkey co…
The making of the Congo question
During the first years of the twentieth century Belgian King Leopold II and his bloody colonial regime in Congo became the subject of what is sometimes considered the first modern international hum
Tales of pastness and contemporaneity
In this article I address the political use of discourses, symbols and logics of time in historiography and anthropology. For a major part of the article, I focus on the anthropologist Johannes Fabian whose writings offer a strong criticism of the politics of time and also have great relevance for historians and philosophers of history. Fabian criticizes anthropology for treating the Other as if living in another time, and he proposes to counter …
Un pasado desde el presente. La historia y la política del tiempo en la justicia transicional
History. Berber is (co-)founder of the interdisciplinary research forum 'TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt' which focuses on popular, academic and artistic dealings with the past in a large variety of different cultural and social areas. Together with colleagues he established the 'International Network for Theory of History' which aims to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas among theorists of history around the world
The Past Is Evil/Evil Is Past
One of the most remarkable phenomena in current international politics is the increasing attention paid to "historical injustice." Opinions on this phenomenon strongly differ. For some it stands for a new and noble type of politics based on raised moral standards and helping the cause of peace and democracy. Others are more critical and claim that retrospective politics comes at the cost of present- or future-oriented politics and tends to be ant…
History from the grave? Politics of time in Spanish mass grave exhumations
During the last decade, a Spanish memory movement has exhumed a great number of mass graves from the Civil War (1936–1939) and Francoist repression (1939–1975). This exhumation campaign is often interpreted in psychopathological terms as a natural reaction to a traumatic past, and as proving that this past should be healed by a therapeutic memory that fosters closure—a vision that we call “trauma-therapy-closure (TTC) time.” Although this vision …
Introduction
In the summer of 2013 the International Network for Theory of History (INTH; http://www.inth.ugent.be)held its inaugural conference in Ghent, Belgium around the central theme of the future of the theory and philosophy of history.1As organizers of this conference we hoped that our initiative would leave some intellectual marks and that the discussions started there would continue and resonate with a broader audience.We were therefore delighted whe…
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence is centered around the provocative thesis that the way one deals with historical injustice and the ethics of…
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
1. Introduction Part I 2. 'La Muerte No Existe.' The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Resistance against the Irreversible Time of History 3. 'We the Victims and Survivors Declare the Past to Be in the Present.' The 'New South Africa' and the Legacy of Apartheid 4. 'The Past Must Remain the Past.' Time of History and Time of Justice in the 'New Sierra Leone' Part II 5. A Hard Time Thinking the Irrevocable. Why It Is So Difficult to Understand the H…
History by Parliamentary Vote
Since the end of the Cold War an increasing number of countries have set up government‐appointed ‘historical commissions’, often staffed or assisted by historians, to settle disputes about the past. This article analyzes the phenomenon of ‘commissioned history’ by focusing on the case of the Belgian parliamentary commission of inquiry which was active between 2000 and 2002 and had to investigate Belgium’s responsibility in the murder of the Congo…
Writing the Past Out of the Present
Journal Article Writing the Past Out of the Present: History and the Politics of Time in Transitional Justice Get access Berber Bevernage Berber Bevernage Berber Bevernage is a Research Fellow at the University of Ghent and currently (2009–2010) a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published articles in the field of philosophy of history and is writing a book based on his doctoral thesis, 'Time, Historical (In)justice …
Haunting pasts
By focusing on the cases of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the radical Flemish nationalists, this article raises the question of how minorities succeed in keeping 'alive' painful fragments of the past, despite being pressured to 'let the wounds heal' or 'bury' the past. To answer this question, we borrow the concept of the 'regime of historicity' from the French historian Francois Hartog. We formulate the thesis that both groups succeeded in kee…
Time, Presence, and Historical Injustice
The relationship between history and justice traditionally has been dominated by the idea of the past as distant or absent (and with that, irreversible). This ambiguous ontological status makes it very difficult to situate the often-felt "duty to remember" or obligation to "do justice to the past" in that past itself, and this has led philosophers from Friedrich Nietzsche to Keith Jenkins to plead against an "obsession" with history in favor of a…
The Past Is Evil/Evil Is Past
One of the most remarkable phenomena in current international politics is the increasing attention paid to "historical injustice." Opinions on this phenomenon strongly differ. For some it stands for a new and noble type of politics based on raised moral standards and helping the cause of peace and democracy. Others are more critical and claim that retrospective politics comes at the cost of present- or future-oriented politics and tends to be ant…
Tales of pastness and contemporaneity
In this article I address the political use of discourses, symbols and logics of time in historiography and anthropology. For a major part of the article, I focus on the anthropologist Johannes Fabian whose writings offer a strong criticism of the politics of time and also have great relevance for historians and philosophers of history. Fabian criticizes anthropology for treating the Other as if living in another time, and he proposes to counter …
Negacionismo
Writing the Past Out of the Present
Journal Article Writing the Past Out of the Present: History and the Politics of Time in Transitional Justice Get access Berber Bevernage Berber Bevernage Berber Bevernage is a Research Fellow at the University of Ghent and currently (2009–2010) a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published articles in the field of philosophy of history and is writing a book based on his doctoral thesis, 'Time, Historical (In)justice …
History from the grave? Politics of time in Spanish mass grave exhumations
During the last decade, a Spanish memory movement has exhumed a great number of mass graves from the Civil War (1936–1939) and Francoist repression (1939–1975). This exhumation campaign is often interpreted in psychopathological terms as a natural reaction to a traumatic past, and as proving that this past should be healed by a therapeutic memory that fosters closure—a vision that we call “trauma-therapy-closure (TTC) time.” Although this vision …
Time, Presence, and Historical Injustice
The relationship between history and justice traditionally has been dominated by the idea of the past as distant or absent (and with that, irreversible). This ambiguous ontological status makes it very difficult to situate the often-felt "duty to remember" or obligation to "do justice to the past" in that past itself, and this has led philosophers from Friedrich Nietzsche to Keith Jenkins to plead against an "obsession" with history in favor of a…
Philosophy of History After 1945
Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different lang…
The making of the Congo question
During the first years of the twentieth century Belgian King Leopold II and his bloody colonial regime in Congo became the subject of what is sometimes considered the first modern international hum
Haunting pasts
By focusing on the cases of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the radical Flemish nationalists, this article raises the question of how minorities succeed in keeping 'alive' painful fragments of the past, despite being pressured to 'let the wounds heal' or 'bury' the past. To answer this question, we borrow the concept of the 'regime of historicity' from the French historian Francois Hartog. We formulate the thesis that both groups succeeded in kee…
Un pasado desde el presente. La historia y la política del tiempo en la justicia transicional
History. Berber is (co-)founder of the interdisciplinary research forum 'TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt' which focuses on popular, academic and artistic dealings with the past in a large variety of different cultural and social areas. Together with colleagues he established the 'International Network for Theory of History' which aims to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas among theorists of history around the world
Introduction
In the summer of 2013 the International Network for Theory of History (INTH; http://www.inth.ugent.be)held its inaugural conference in Ghent, Belgium around the central theme of the future of the theory and philosophy of history.1As organizers of this conference we hoped that our initiative would leave some intellectual marks and that the discussions started there would continue and resonate with a broader audience.We were therefore delighted whe…
History by Parliamentary Vote
Since the end of the Cold War an increasing number of countries have set up government‐appointed ‘historical commissions’, often staffed or assisted by historians, to settle disputes about the past. This article analyzes the phenomenon of ‘commissioned history’ by focusing on the case of the Belgian parliamentary commission of inquiry which was active between 2000 and 2002 and had to investigate Belgium’s responsibility in the murder of the Congo…
Time, Presence, and Historical Injustice
The relationship between history and justice traditionally has been dominated by the idea of the past as distant or absent (and with that, irreversible). This ambiguous ontological status makes it very difficult to situate the often-felt "duty to remember" or obligation to "do justice to the past" in that past itself, and this has led philosophers from Friedrich Nietzsche to Keith Jenkins to plead against an "obsession" with history in favor of a…
Haunting pasts
By focusing on the cases of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the radical Flemish nationalists, this article raises the question of how minorities succeed in keeping 'alive' painful fragments of the past, despite being pressured to 'let the wounds heal' or 'bury' the past. To answer this question, we borrow the concept of the 'regime of historicity' from the French historian Francois Hartog. We formulate the thesis that both groups succeeded in kee…
Writing the Past Out of the Present
Journal Article Writing the Past Out of the Present: History and the Politics of Time in Transitional Justice Get access Berber Bevernage Berber Bevernage Berber Bevernage is a Research Fellow at the University of Ghent and currently (2009–2010) a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published articles in the field of philosophy of history and is writing a book based on his doctoral thesis, 'Time, Historical (In)justice …
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
1. Introduction Part I 2. 'La Muerte No Existe.' The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Resistance against the Irreversible Time of History 3. 'We the Victims and Survivors Declare the Past to Be in the Present.' The 'New South Africa' and the Legacy of Apartheid 4. 'The Past Must Remain the Past.' Time of History and Time of Justice in the 'New Sierra Leone' Part II 5. A Hard Time Thinking the Irrevocable. Why It Is So Difficult to Understand the H…
History by Parliamentary Vote
Since the end of the Cold War an increasing number of countries have set up government‐appointed ‘historical commissions’, often staffed or assisted by historians, to settle disputes about the past. This article analyzes the phenomenon of ‘commissioned history’ by focusing on the case of the Belgian parliamentary commission of inquiry which was active between 2000 and 2002 and had to investigate Belgium’s responsibility in the murder of the Congo…
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence is centered around the provocative thesis that the way one deals with historical injustice and the ethics of…
History from the grave? Politics of time in Spanish mass grave exhumations
During the last decade, a Spanish memory movement has exhumed a great number of mass graves from the Civil War (1936–1939) and Francoist repression (1939–1975). This exhumation campaign is often interpreted in psychopathological terms as a natural reaction to a traumatic past, and as proving that this past should be healed by a therapeutic memory that fosters closure—a vision that we call “trauma-therapy-closure (TTC) time.” Although this vision …
Introduction
In the summer of 2013 the International Network for Theory of History (INTH; http://www.inth.ugent.be)held its inaugural conference in Ghent, Belgium around the central theme of the future of the theory and philosophy of history.1As organizers of this conference we hoped that our initiative would leave some intellectual marks and that the discussions started there would continue and resonate with a broader audience.We were therefore delighted whe…
The Past Is Evil/Evil Is Past
One of the most remarkable phenomena in current international politics is the increasing attention paid to "historical injustice." Opinions on this phenomenon strongly differ. For some it stands for a new and noble type of politics based on raised moral standards and helping the cause of peace and democracy. Others are more critical and claim that retrospective politics comes at the cost of present- or future-oriented politics and tends to be ant…
Un pasado desde el presente. La historia y la política del tiempo en la justicia transicional
History. Berber is (co-)founder of the interdisciplinary research forum 'TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt' which focuses on popular, academic and artistic dealings with the past in a large variety of different cultural and social areas. Together with colleagues he established the 'International Network for Theory of History' which aims to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas among theorists of history around the world
The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945
This chapter seeks to compare and contrast the series of legal cases that were launched by the Republic of Cyprus, both in domestic and international courts, in response to the coup d’état and the Turkish military invasion of 1974. An analysis of this case law suggests that the Republic of Cyprus reacted to the two events in very different ways: while the response to the coup was sporadic and disorganised, the legal action taken against Turkey co…
The making of the Congo question
During the first years of the twentieth century Belgian King Leopold II and his bloody colonial regime in Congo became the subject of what is sometimes considered the first modern international hum
Tales of pastness and contemporaneity
In this article I address the political use of discourses, symbols and logics of time in historiography and anthropology. For a major part of the article, I focus on the anthropologist Johannes Fabian whose writings offer a strong criticism of the politics of time and also have great relevance for historians and philosophers of history. Fabian criticizes anthropology for treating the Other as if living in another time, and he proposes to counter …
Philosophy of History After 1945
Much has been said about what philosophy of history should be. This bibliometric assessment of research in the philosophy of history examines what scholars in this field have actually produced. The study covers a dataset-a subsection of the bibliography of the International Network for Theory of History-of 13,953 books, articles, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly publications, encompassing materials written in seven different lang…
‘A passeidade do Passado’
É bem sabido que a noção de passeidade do passado é uma ideia central que sustenta a visão de mundo historicista. Recentemente, no entanto, a passeidade do passado se tornou uma grande preocupação acadêmica e política. Contra o pano de fundo de uma crescente atenção transnacional por memória e injustiça histórica, muitos comentadores notaram uma diluição da distinção entre passado e presente e uma crise da passeidade historicista. Embora eu certa…
The Pastness of the Past
Berber Bevernage’s thinking is centered on the concept of the pastness of the past, which is the basis of historicism. The need to rethink this concept has become evident because of the crisis in historical consciousness proclaimed by a number of theorists of history and because the boundaries between the past and the present became blurred when the presentist “broad present” (Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s term) became dominant. The author does not dem…
Negacionismo
Claiming the People's Past
This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – ranging from Brazil to Bangladesh, from Poland to Tanzania. Five thematic chapters zoom in on key features of populism: its relation to time, national…
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