Public history’ as a vocation

Irina Savelieva ()
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Irina Savelieva: National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). Poletaev In-stitute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI)

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Abstract: The paper analyzes the contents and objectives of ‘public history’, the relationship between scholarly and popular knowledge, conventions governing the representation of the past out-side the academic context, and the transfer of scholarly knowledge from academic to media environment. The article is divided into sections titled What? Who? When? Why? What for? and How? These lapidary subtitles reflect the fact that very little has been written about public history yet, and a preliminary review of the field is necessary. First of all, we need to deter-mine what kind of new historical work it is, and to draw several distinctions between different types of historians who engage in professional and/or public history. Public history is treated as a specific type of historical judgment and historical practice, thus the analysis of ‘public history’ covers cognitive aspects as well as social ones

Keywords: public history; academic knowledge; popular knowledge; transmission of knowledge; media; professionals; public; modes of historical writing; disciplinary conventions; historical method; historical truth; vocation; participation; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, June 2013, pages 1-29

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