Performing the World
Reality and Representation in the Making of World Histor(ies)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19147693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arif Dirlik (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391-410 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of world history (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-6007 • E-ISSN: 1527-8050 |
| Publisher | World History Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jwh.2006.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2001110845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article discusses a dilemma that faces the practice of world history, a dilemma created by a conflict between the public pedagogical and the historiographical obligations of world history. The former demands that world history account for the formations of the modern world, expressed most cogently in the spatialities of nations, cultures, civilizations, and even world-systems. On the other hand, world history must be careful for historiographical reasons to not project upon the past the spatialities of modernity. Further complications are added by the undermining of these spatialities by contemporary forces of globalization. The discussion seeks to demonstrate the historiographical problems presented by issues of space through the examples of China, Asia, and Islam. It suggests that world history is not just a subject, but a method, and the methodological questions it raises may be resolved best through translocal approaches to history that are not confined by the boundaries of the spatial units of modernity. The latter need not be abandoned, only placed in historical perspective
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Dilemma · Epistemology · Globalization · Historiography · Modernity · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · World history · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
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Transoceanic Arabic historiography
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Siena on the Silk Roads
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Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
The 1943 West African Editors’ Press Delegation to the United Kingdom
Bonded by reverence toward the Buddha’
Scholars and the Sea
The world(s) between places
Duplicities
TimeSpace of the ‘international’
On Methodology
Japanese Confucianism
Global History with Chinese Characteristics
Espacio, territorio y territorialidad
Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
Transnationalism and the Evolution of Post-National Citizenship in Japan
Weeping Qingdao Tears Abroad
Arabia’s Anti-Colonial Hub
Histoire globale, histoires connectées
Global History
The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
The Chinese Chameleon
Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam
Conquerors and Rulers. Social Forces in Medieval China
The End of the Nation State
The Idea of China
Inner Asian Frontiers of China
Voyager from Xanadu
Rescuing History from the Nation
Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism
Modernity in Question
Scratches on Our Minds
The Living Tree
Millennial Capitalism
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |