scholarly journals 2005 Presidential Address of the CHA

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Gerald Friesen
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
To Come

Abstract The spatial dimensions of contemporary society differ substantially from those prevailing in earlier centuries and even in the first half of the twentieth century. The change requires a re-thinking of “region,” one of the fundamental concepts in discussions of Canada as nation-state. In the past, the concept of region has enabled Canadians to come to terms with physical, cultural, and historical differences within the country and to imagine the community as an appropriate and cohesive whole. In the conditions created by changing trade patterns, global migration, and electronic communication, the concept of region has to be revised if it is to serve as one of the underpinnings of the contemporary nation-state. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, this paper advocates the use of three regional concepts in place of one. Denoted, instituted, and imagined regions acknowledge the social change, the negotiation, and the contingency that must be part of a spatial approach to Canadian history.

Conservation and Heritage As Creative Processes of Future-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290
Author(s):  
Cornelius Holtorf
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Conservation Ethics ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come

AbstractAccording to the logic of the conservation ethics, the heritage sector has the duty to conserve cultural heritage because it has inherent value and constitutes a non-renewable resource that once destroyed cannot be substituted and, therefore, must be preserved for the benefit of future generations. In this article, I argue, however, that the cultural heritage of the past is not a comprehensive legacy that theoretically, at any point, might have been considered complete but, rather, that it can be understood as frequently updated manifestations of changing perceptions of the past over time. The most important question for conservation and heritage management, thus, is not how much heritage of any one period may or may not survive intact into the future but, instead, which heritage, as our legacy to the generations to come, will benefit future societies the most. In particular, I am calling for more research into the possible significance of heritage in addressing some of the social consequences of climate change.

ÇAĞDAŞ SANATTA TRAVMAYLA YÜZLEŞME BAĞLAMINDA MEKTUP

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Rabia Demir
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

Events such as illness, death, violence, and war deeply affect the life of the individual or the social structure and cause radical changes and traumas. In the historical process of art, it is seen that artists are not indifferent to traumas, on the contrary, traumas constitute the center of their work. This article examines how the letter is handled as a means of communication between the artist and the audience in contemporary artworks that want to face personal or social traumas. In this context, examples of contemporary art that want to be aware of the traumas experienced, to tell them, to come to terms with the past and to achieve improvement in the name of the future, and using the letter as a means of expression, are included. In these works, where the letter is used as a means of expression and communication, the writer, reader or listener changes; the letter is written/read/listened to by the artist or the audience. Thus, the audience plays an important role as well as the letter in the emergence and completion of the work. This, in turn, turns the works into an interactive space, allowing to face the past and to realize the trauma experienced.

What is Social Science History, Anyway?

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-480
Author(s):  
Paula Baker
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Science History ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Methodologies

This group of essays came out of an attempt to address the “usually unasked,” “bound to embarrass” question that Eric Monkkonen raised in his 1994 presidential address to the Social Science History Association. As both the social sciences and history have been reshaped in recent years by intellectual tendencies variously labeled “postmodernism,” “poststructuralism,” or the “linguistic turn,” the never especially clear relationship between the social sciences and history has grown even more muddy. The essays that follow are drawn from two sessions of the 1998 annual program of the Social Science History Association. The sessions brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines and cohorts who held divergent ideas about the links between social science and history and different substantive agendas for explaining historical change. A mix of essays that highlight new methodologies for analyzing the past and pieces that offer explanations or remedies, the articles printed here point to some of the central issues in the debate about what social science history might mean today.

scholarly journals Presidential Address: A View From the Lectern

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
J. E. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Defence

Abstract This paper explores the relationship among teaching, research, and publications for, the author argues, a good teacher must carry out advanced historical research and >report results to a wider academic audience. This observation leads to an examination of three kinds of questions which challenge the historian as teacher: the first, questions to which the primary and secondary literature provide no answer; the second, questions to which standard works offer no adequate response but which inspire research and rethinking and thereby lead to a new understanding of the issue; and the third, questions which can be fully answered only by informed speculation. The paper then illustrates the challenge posed by each type of question by looking at important incidents in twentieth-century Canadian history: the first, why Prime Minister Borden on 1 January 1916 doubled Canada's manpower in the Great War to five hundred thousand; the second, why did the tariff disappear as an issue from elections after 1935; and the third, why did the Cabinet accept the forced resignation of J. L. Ralston as Minister of National Defence in November of 1944? The specialised knowledge required to respond to such questions necessarily enriches our overall understanding of the past.

Introduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogumil Jewsiewicki ◽  
Bob W. White
Keyword(s):  
Primary Objective ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Horizon Of Expectations

In many societies, especially those where individual and collective memory are marked by the trauma that can accompany authoritarian rule, people attempt to come to terms with the past by finding ways of making it relevant to the present. One way to understand this complex relationship with history is through a careful examination of the practice of mourning. Mourning constitutes, above all, a framework from which the deceased's relationship with the living is collectively inventoried, evaluated, and debated so that the social work of memory may graft the experiences of yesterday onto a horizon of expectations. Defining the status of the deceased means making important decisions about how to “move on,” since the moment of mourning is not only a moment for weighing the acts and deeds of the deceased, but also a way of testing more generally the criteria for becoming recognized as an ancestor. As death seems increasingly present in the lives of people in many parts of Africa, emerging forms of social mourning echo the need for new political futures, and mourning shows itself as an important terrain for the social production of meaning. The primary objective of this collection of articles is to look at how the process of mourning mediates between the past and the future, and how the practices and perceptions of mourning are linked to real and imagined divisions in political time. Mourning, in other words, is a way of rethinking time.

Accountability: The Debate in South Africa

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kollapen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Solid Base ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Just Society ◽  
To Come

The constitutional and political negotiations in South Africa have reached an advanced stage and elections for a government of national unity might take place within the next twelve months. For the millions of South Africans who have waited, fought, sacrificed and suffered the end appears to be in sight. While they will have every right to celebrate the results of their hard-fought battles to achieve a democratic and just society, they equally have a solemn duty to ensure that they proceed to build the future on a solid base, not only to guarantee the protection of democracy and justice but more importantly to ensure that no other South African is ever again the victim of the types of human rights abuses that have for the past decades become synonymous with the country. There will only be one opportunity to rebuild the nation. If it fails it will be a great disservice to South Africa's countrymen and women and to the generations that will follow. Even as a South African one has difficulty in fully comprehending the enormity of the social and human destruction caused in the name of apartheid. It has brutalized and dispossessed its people; robbed children of their youth and their innocence; widowed and orphaned thousands and destroyed the dreams and hopes of decent men and women. The 18 million people gaoled in terms of the pass laws and the 15.5 million people uprooted by forced removals bear testimony to the brutality and savagery with which apartheid was applied. The legacy of those policies will remain for many years to come.

scholarly journals Thinking forward through the past: Prospecting for urban order in (Victorian) public parks

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Churchill ◽  
Adam Crawford ◽  
Anna Barker
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Public Parks ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
The Past ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come

Supplementing familiar linear and chronological accounts of history, we delineate a novel approach that explores connections between past, present and future. Drawing on Koselleck, we outline a framework for analysing the interconnected categories of ‘spaces of experience’ and ‘horizons of expectation’ across times. We consider the visions and anxieties of futures past and futures present; how these are constituted by, and inform, experiences that have happened and are yet to come. This conceptual frame is developed through the study of the heritage and lived experiences of a specific Victorian park within an English city. We analyse the formation of urban order as a lens to interrogate both the immediate and long-term linkages between past, present and possible futures. This approach enables us to ground analysis of prospects for urban relations in historical perspective and to pose fundamental questions about the social role of urban parks.

Aboriginal Pre-Pre-School

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-33
Author(s):  
Lynda Leidig
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Social Club ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Aboriginal Children

The Aboriginal Social Club of Port Augusta has been operating a pre-pre-school for Aboriginal children for the past six months or more. The idea behind this venture was to enable Aboriginal children between the ages of 2½ to 4 years to come together in a playgroup situation where they could experience the social contacts and educational experiences which many middle-class children already experience in the home. Such experiences prepare the children for kindergarten which they attend between the ages of 4 and 5 years.

Presidential Address: The People of Britain and Ireland, 1100–1400, 1.Identities

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Human Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Intellectual Climate

PEOPLES are back on the historian's agenda. Their return to the historical limelight, or at least out of the historical shadows, is doubtless in part a response to the growing awareness of the power of ethnicity in our own contemporary world. So it is with changes of historical fashion at all times. But it also no doubt arises in part from the growing recognition that the centrality that academic historians have so long given to the unitary nation state as the natural, inevitable and indeed desirable unit of human power and political organisation is itself a reflection of the intellectual climate in which modern academic historiography was forged in the nineteenth century. The linear development of the nation state is no longer of necessity the overarching theme and organising principle in the study of the past that it once was. Once our historical gaze could be shifted from the state and its institutions and from the seductive appeal of its prolific archives, other solidarities and collectivities could come more clearly into historical focus. Some of them seemed to have as great, if not occasionally greater, depth and historical resilience than did the nation state. At the very least they deserve to be studied alongside it. Not least in prominence among such collectivities are the peoples of Europe.

scholarly journals Da implementação à verificação do cumprimento da política de acesso aberto a publicações científicas: o caso da NOVA FCSH (2014-2018)

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Cátia Carvalho ◽  
Cátia Teles e Marques ◽  
Ricardo Castro
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
To Come

: Over the past 10 years NOVA FCSH has been engaged with the Open Access movement in a reactive way, seeking, above all, regulatory compliance. In 2020, a new R&D framework programme reinforced the importance of FCT's Open Access policy and committed the R&D Units to its compliance. It was therefore imperative to think the strategy over, to clarify concepts and the requirements of the policy and to come up with a new strategy and a plan of action for the future. This article focuses on the main topics of this analysis and the steps taken at NOVA FCSH, as a starting point for a case study on Open Access and the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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