On historical consciousness and popular pasts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4776032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kalle Pihlainen (0000-0002-3361-5840, Research Council of Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 15 |
| Pages | 10-26 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | História da Historiografia International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1983-9928 • E-ISSN: 1983-9928 |
| Publisher | Sociedade Brasileria de Teoria e Historia de Historiografia (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15848/hh.v0i15.685 |
| OpenAlex | W2096818572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article investigates the nature of historical consciousness – conceptualizations and constructions of the past outside academic history – and the way in which this has changed in parallel with developments in historical theory in recent decades. With the increased constructivist questioning of historical narratives as somehow objectively true, academic history is seen to have lost some of its authority regarding the past. It is argued that, in becoming more aware of its nature as interpretation as well as more sensitive to its motives and consequences, history now has the potential to become more pragmatic and presentist. At the same time, some theoretical discussions have turned to the less strictly historical questions of memory and presence, thus evading the call to responsibility. By examining historical consciousness in relation to these debates, the article suggests that, in line with the liberation of the past from the constraints of academic history, historical consciousness no longer needs to be as focused on the interpretations and knowledge provided by the institution of history but can be increasingly determined by popular understandings and the needs of consumers
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Psychology
At Memory's Edge
The Future of History
The Content of the Form
Introduction
Metahistory
Experience and its Modes
Experience and its modes
History Goes to the Movies
Experiments in Rethinking History
Historiography between Scholarship and Poetry
History in the world
Inventing the new from the old – from White's ‘tropics’ to Vico's ‘topics’
Of Closure and Convention
History's affective turn
Historiography and Postmodernism
Truth and Authenticity in Contemporary Historical Culture
On historical consciousness and popular pasts
History, the Referent, and Narrative
On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse
Tropics of Discourse
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |