Professional historians in public : old and new roles revisited / edited by Berber Bevernage ; Lutz Raphael

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Intro -- The Politics of Historical Thinking -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 New Roles for Professional Historians and New Public Uses of the Past -- Part One: Histoires Engagées: A Critical Look Back -- 2 Eric Hobsbawm as a Public Champion of Cosmopolitan Universalism -- 3 Two Sides of Activist Scholarship Within UNESCO's General History of Africa (1964-1998) -- 4 Colonial Historiography, Hindutva, and the Difficulty of Reading the Ancient Indian Historical Traditions -- Part Two: Law and Historical Expertise -- 5 Challenges of Historical Expert Witnessing in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Elsewhere -- 6 The Waitangi Tribunal and the Public Life of History -- Part Three: Old and New Public Demands on Professional Historians -- 7 Between Discipline and Profession: Historical Studies and Their Public Relevance in Brazil -- 8 Policy-Oriented History for the EU: The Rise of a New Type of Professional Practice for Historians? -- 9 Indigenous History, Activism, and the Decolonizing University: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Struggle over the Khoisan Past in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Part Four: Public History in New Media -- 10 Russian Public Historians in the New Media (The Case of Telegram) -- 11 Practices of Popular Science and Digital Curation in Theory of History on the Portuguese Edition of Wikipedia -- Part Five: Perspectives: Moral, Epistemic, and Political -- 12 Historians and Human Rights Advocacy -- 13 The Politics of Memory and the Task of Historians -- 14 Languages of Legitimation and the Registers of Legitimate History -- Biographical Notes -- Selected Bibliography on 'Public Uses of the Past and the Role of Professional Historians in the Public Sphere' -- Index.

This series seeks to focus on the politics inherent in historical thinking, professional and non-professional, promoted by states, political organisations, 'nationalities' or interest groups, and to explore the links between political (re-)education, historiography and mobilisation or identity formation.