Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics
Partisan Histories is an introduction to the multiple uses of
history in contemporary political debate and conflict. As
communities reimagine themselves, a contest over defining
legitimacy, identifying us and others, and jockeying for political
control intersects with fights over history and memory. Here
distinguished scholars examine how competing versions of national
identity are legitimized through appeals to carefully constructed
'pasts' both in democracies and in repressive regimes. The
essays focus on the cases of Armenia, Chile, France, Germany, India
and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Japan, Nigeria, and the United
States to draw broader conclusions about the worldwide effect of
traumatic memory, questions of punishment and restitution, and the
instrumentalization of the past for political purposes.
Table of contents:
History in Politics; P.Kenney & M.P.Friedman
PART I: NEW REGIMES
The Past in the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany;
A.H.Beattie
Apologizing for the Past Between Japan and Korea; A.Dudden
Breaking the Silence in Post-Authoritarian Chile; K.Hite
Political Uses of the Recent Past in the Spanish Post-authoritarian
Democracy; C.Humlebæk
PART II: NEW NATIONS
Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations
(Kazakhstan and Armenia); R.Grigor Suny
Knowledge For Politics: Partisan Histories and Communal
Mobilization in India and Pakistan; S.Das & S.Basu
Historiophobia or the Enslavement of History: The Role of the 1948
Ethnic Cleansing in the Contemporary Peace Process; I.Pappe
Nigeria: The Past in the Present; T.Falola
PART III: NEW LESSONS
Histories and 'Lessons' of the Vietnam War; P.Hagopian
Edited By Padraic Kenney and By (Author) Max Paul Friedman
Inhaltsangabe
History in Politics; PART I: NEW REGIMES The Past in the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany; Apologizing for the Past Between Japan and Korea; Breaking the Silence in Post-Authoritarian Chile; Political Uses of the Recent Past in the Spanish Post-authoritarian Democracy; PART II: NEW NATIONS Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations (Kazakhstan and Armenia); Knowledge For Politics: Partisan Histories and Communal Mobilization in India and Pakistan; Historiophobia or the Enslavement of History: The Role of the 1948 Ethnic Cleansing in the Contemporary Peace Process; Nigeria: The Past in the Present; PART III: NEW LESSONS Histories and 'Lessons' of the Vietnam War;
