Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Paris campus
Course Title:
NARRATIVES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST
Course Number:
AHIS 25A11
Course Description:
Historians are part in the process of representing, writing and appropriating the past. Their approach is based on a quest for truth and objectivity, and on precise procedures to provide evidence. This endeavor coexists with the multiple social and political interpretations of the past, which have proliferated over the last forty years (referred to as the so-called “memory boom”). Due to memory claims, demands for reparations, ideological constructions and the “invention of tradition”, numerous and contradictory discourses have flourished and taken on various forms (literature, cinema, visual arts, commemorations, collections, etc.). As a shared object, the past is at the heart of political and social conflicts, notably through the major process of “competitive victimhood”. The very goal of this course is thus to understand the background, logic and forms of these various uses of the past, and to define the specificity of historical knowledge, its requirements and objectives, as well
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HIST 388
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