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The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous,
particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration
in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed
by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in
shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and
increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past
experiences and their representation. The result has been a
broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously
taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses.
Considering how crucial the auditory aspect of life has been, a
shift from seeing to hearing past societies offers a further
perspective for examining the complexity of historical events and
experiences. Historians in many fields have begun to listen to the
past, developing new arguments about the history and the memory of
sensory experience. This volume builds on scholarship produced over
the last twenty years and explores these dimensions by coupling the
history of sound and the senses in distinctive ways: through a
study of the sound of violence; the sound of voice mediated by
technologies and the expression of memory through the senses.
Though sound is the most developed field in the study of the
sensorium, many argue that each of the senses should not be studied
in isolation from each other, and for this reason, the final
section incorporates material which emphasizes the sense as
relational.
The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous,
particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration
in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed
by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in
shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and
increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past
experiences and their representation. The result has been a
broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously
taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses.
Considering how crucial the auditory aspect of life has been, a
shift from seeing to hearing past societies offers a further
perspective for examining the complexity of historical events and
experiences. Historians in many fields have begun to listen to the
past, developing new arguments about the history and the memory of
sensory experience. This volume builds on scholarship produced over
the last twenty years and explores these dimensions by coupling the
history of sound and the senses in distinctive ways: through a
study of the sound of violence; the sound of voice mediated by
technologies and the expression of memory through the senses.
Though sound is the most developed field in the study of the
sensorium, many argue that each of the senses should not be studied
in isolation from each other, and for this reason, the final
section incorporates material which emphasizes the sense as
relational.
Addressing current trends in feminist historical and literary
scholarship in relation to digital media, this book looks at how
the field has developed since the first feminist archival research
projects were initiated over twenty years ago. The contributions to
the book explore three key concerns: projects which document the
history of women's political activism; the digitising of primary
document archives by women; and the impact of digitisation on
historical research about women. In addition, the book sheds light
on the way in which historians and literary scholars fuse digital
sources with traditional forms such as books and journal articles
to imagine different and ground-breaking histories of women's
experience. With the field of feminist history and its relationship
to the digital world in a dynamic position, the contributions to
this volume can be read as signposts for future research in the
field, posing questions for scholars and readers to explore in more
detail. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Women's History Review.
Addressing current trends in feminist historical and literary
scholarship in relation to digital media, this book looks at how
the field has developed since the first feminist archival research
projects were initiated over twenty years ago. The contributions to
the book explore three key concerns: projects which document the
history of women's political activism; the digitising of primary
document archives by women; and the impact of digitisation on
historical research about women. In addition, the book sheds light
on the way in which historians and literary scholars fuse digital
sources with traditional forms such as books and journal articles
to imagine different and ground-breaking histories of women's
experience. With the field of feminist history and its relationship
to the digital world in a dynamic position, the contributions to
this volume can be read as signposts for future research in the
field, posing questions for scholars and readers to explore in more
detail. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Women's History Review.
As `offenders' turn their backs on crime, they often change their
identities as well as their behaviour, yet we know much less about
how reforming identity might be affected by gender, age or
ethnicity. This book showcases research from a wide range of
authors in the field. It considers the similarities and differences
between desisting from crime and recovering from addiction. Taking
the desistance and recovery debates in unfamiliar directions, it
examines the experiences of change for individuals seeking
healthier and more successful futures
As `offenders' turn their backs on crime, they often change their
identities as well as their behaviour, yet we know much less about
how reforming identity might be affected by gender, age or
ethnicity. This book showcases research from a wide range of
authors in the field. It considers the similarities and differences
between desisting from crime and recovering from addiction. Taking
the desistance and recovery debates in unfamiliar directions, it
examines the experiences of change for individuals seeking
healthier and more successful futures
If historical culture is the specific and particular ways that a
society engages with its past, this book aims to situate the
professional practice of public history, now emerging across the
world, within that framework. It links the increasingly varied
practices of memory and history-making such as genealogy,
podcasting, re-enactment, family histories, memoir writing,
film-making and facebook histories with the work that professional
historians do, both in and out of the academy. Making Histories
asks questions about the role of the expert and notions of
authority within a landscape that is increasingly concerned with
connection to the past and authenticity. The book is divided into
four parts: 1. Resistance, Rights, Authority 2. Memory,
Memorialization, Commemoration 3. Performance, Transmission,
Reception 4. Family, Private, Self The four sections outline major
themes emerging in public history across the world in the 21st
century which are all underpinned by the impact of new media on
historical practice and our central argument for the volume which
advocates a more capacious definition of what constitutes 'public
history'.
This core text offers you an accessible foundation to the topics of
diversity, inclusion and marginalisation. Not only will you develop
an understanding of how marginalisation happens, you will be
encouraged to question and challenge policy and practice through
case studies, reflective questions and activities. The book
analyses issues encountered by marginalised groups and the impact
these may have on the lives of those concerned, together with how
you, as a practitioner, can help to empower these individuals and
groups. With key chapters bringing attention to less cited
marginalised groups such as transgender children, children with
mental health conditions and looked after children, the author
critically analyses the difficulties and challenges of inclusive
ideology in practice, the role of mass media in reinforcing
prejudice and examines theoretical frameworks and concepts related
to marginalisation, inclusion and diversity.
This core text offers you an accessible foundation to the topics of
diversity, inclusion and marginalisation. Not only will you develop
an understanding of how marginalisation happens, you will be
encouraged to question and challenge policy and practice through
case studies, reflective questions and activities. The book
analyses issues encountered by marginalised groups and the impact
these may have on the lives of those concerned, together with how
you, as a practitioner, can help to empower these individuals and
groups. With key chapters bringing attention to less cited
marginalised groups such as transgender children, children with
mental health conditions and looked after children, the author
critically analyses the difficulties and challenges of inclusive
ideology in practice, the role of mass media in reinforcing
prejudice and examines theoretical frameworks and concepts related
to marginalisation, inclusion and diversity.
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant
memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first
century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing
political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are
negotiated and commemorated by individuals, communities and the
nation. Remembering Migration is divided into two sections, the
first on oral histories and the second examining the complexity of
migrant heritage, and the sources and genres of memory writing. The
focused and thematic analysis in the book explores how these
histories are re-remembered in private and public spaces, including
museum exhibitions, heritage sites and the media. Written by
leading and emerging scholars, the collected essays explore how
memories of global migration across generations contribute to the
ever-changing social and cultural fabric of Australia and its place
in the world.
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant
memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first
century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing
political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are
negotiated and commemorated by individuals, communities and the
nation. Remembering Migration is divided into two sections, the
first on oral histories and the second examining the complexity of
migrant heritage, and the sources and genres of memory writing. The
focused and thematic analysis in the book explores how these
histories are re-remembered in private and public spaces, including
museum exhibitions, heritage sites and the media. Written by
leading and emerging scholars, the collected essays explore how
memories of global migration across generations contribute to the
ever-changing social and cultural fabric of Australia and its place
in the world.
The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates
within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a
public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It
views public history as a dynamic process combining historical
research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed
by a conceptual context. The editors acknowledge the imprecision
bedeviling attempts to define public history, and use this book as
an opportunity to shape the field by taking a deliberately broad
view. They include professional historians who work outside the
academy in a range of institutions and sites, and those who are
politically committed to communicating history to the wide range of
audiences. This volume provides the information and inspiration
needed by a practitioner to succeed in the wide range of workplaces
that characterizes public history today, for university teachers of
public history to assist their students, and for working public
historians to keep up to date with recent research. This handbook
locates public history as a professional practice within an
intellectual framework that is increasingly transnational,
technological, and democratic. While the nation state remains the
primary means of identification, increased mobility and the digital
revolution have occasioned a much broader outlook and awareness of
the world beyond national borders. It addresses squarely the
tech-savvy, media-literate citizens of the world, the"digital
natives" of the twenty-first century, in a way that recognizes the
revolution in shared authority that has swept museum work, oral
history, and much of public history practice. This volume also
provides both currently practicing historians and those entering
the field a map for understanding the historical landscape of the
future: not just to the historiographical debates of the academy
but also the boom in commemoration and history outside the academy
evident in many countries since the 1990s, which now constitutes
the historical culture in each country. Public historians need to
understand both contexts, and to negotiate their implications for
questions of historical authority and the public historian's work.
The boom in popular history is characterized by a significant
increase in both making and consuming history in a range of
historical activities such as genealogy, family history, and
popular collecting; cultural tourism, historic sites, and memorial
museums; increased memorialization, both formal and informal, from
roadside memorials to state funded shrines and memorial Internet
sites; increased publication of historical novels, biographies, and
movies and TV series set in the past. Much of this, as well as a
vast array of new community cultural projects, has been facilitated
by the digital technologies that have increased the accessibility
of historical information, the democratization of practice, and the
demand for sharing authority.
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history
interviews are used \u0022in public,\u0022 they invariably both
reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and
Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship,
in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of
venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example,
of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in
post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal
testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American
history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping
heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and
of the way an oral history project with homeless people in
Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken
together, these original essays link the well established practice
of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies.
The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates
within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a
public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It
views public history as a dynamic process combining historical
research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed
by a conceptual context. The editors acknowledge the imprecision
bedeviling attempts to define public history, and use this book as
an opportunity to shape the field by taking a deliberately broad
view. They include professional historians who work outside the
academy in a range of institutions and sites, and those who are
politically committed to communicating history to the wide range of
audiences. This volume provides the information and inspiration
needed by a practitioner to succeed in the wide range of workplaces
that characterizes public history today, for university teachers of
public history to assist their students, and for working public
historians to keep up to date with recent research. This handbook
locates public history as a professional practice within an
intellectual framework that is increasingly transnational,
technological, and democratic. While the nation state remains the
primary means of identification, increased mobility and the digital
revolution have occasioned a much broader outlook and awareness of
the world beyond national borders. It addresses squarely the
tech-savvy, media-literate citizens of the world, the"digital
natives" of the twenty-first century, in a way that recognizes the
revolution in shared authority that has swept museum work, oral
history, and much of public history practice. This volume also
provides both currently practicing historians and those entering
the field a map for understanding the historical landscape of the
future: not just to the historiographical debates of the academy
but also the boom in commemoration and history outside the academy
evident in many countries since the 1990s, which now constitutes
the historical culture in each country. Public historians need to
understand both contexts, and to negotiate their implications for
questions of historical authority and the public historian's work.
The boom in popular history is characterized by a significant
increase in both making and consuming history in a range of
historical activities such as genealogy, family history, and
popular collecting; cultural tourism, historic sites, and memorial
museums; increased memorialization, both formal and informal, from
roadside memorials to state funded shrines and memorial Internet
sites; increased publication of historical novels, biographies, and
movies and TV series set in the past. Much of this, as well as a
vast array of new community cultural projects, has been facilitated
by the digital technologies that have increased the accessibility
of historical information, the democratization of practice, and the
demand for sharing authority.
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