Title:The Party as a New Utopia: Reshaping communist identity after Stalinism
Author(s):KOLAR, PavelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the transformation of communist identity in the eastern bloc after 1956, showing both moments of decline as well as attempts to reforge it. It explores how communist identity was negotiated and reshaped ...
Title:Making Use of the Past: The role of historians in Baltic Sea Region building
Author(s):GRZECHNIK, MartaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper I analyze how the histories of the Baltic Sea region have been constructed and used in the post-Cold War period. After 1989, historians assumed the role of region-builders. Historical narratives were constructed ...
Title:Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-GerhardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by ...
Title:O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta
Author(s):DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
Title:Beyond 'Media Panics': Reconceptualising public debates about children and media
Author(s):BUCKINGHAM, David; JENSEN, Helle StrandgaardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents a critical review of the use of “moral panics” theory as a means of understanding public debates about children and media, and specifically of the notion of “media panics.” Following a brief presentation ...
Title:La “Public History”: una disciplina fantasma?
Author(s):NOIRET, SergeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The essay aims to analyze how the past is appropriated in the European Public Sphere and which institutions, media and actors are involved in Public History practices. In contrast to the Anglo-Saxon world, a variety of ...
Title:Public History oltre lo Stato: presentare il passato Yiddish nell’Europa contemporanea
Author(s):ZAAGSMA, GerbenDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses how Europe’s ‘Yiddish past’ is presented, commemorated and engaged with in contemporary Europe from a Public History perspective. It investigates the ways in which Yiddish, its culture and its speakers, ...
Title:I festival di storia: una via italiana alla Public History?
Author(s):CATASTINI, FrancescoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper discusses the absence of public history-teaching programs in Italian universities, and focuses on the practice of history in Italian open public spaces. The emergence of history festivals is analyzed as a ...
Title:Genocide and the Terror of History
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas ...