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Rozemarijn Van De Wal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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constructing the persona of a Professional Historian on eileen power s early career persona formation and her year in paris 1910 1911
Persona Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Rozemarijn Van De WalAbstract:British medieval Historian Eileen Power (1889-1940) was one of Britain's most eminent female Historians of the first half of the twentieth century. Becoming professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1931, Power gained academic recognition to a degree that was difficult for women to obtain in this period. Numerous writings on Power discuss 1920-1921, when she travelled around the world as an Albert-Kahn fellow, as a formative year in her career indicating the importance of travel for achieving scholarly success. In contrast, no attention has been paid to the significance of Power's first academic journey in 1910-1911, when she spent a year in Paris. This stay abroad would however be equally decisive since it was then that she decided to pursue a career in history and become a Professional scholar in the medieval discipline. However, at this time, women were not self-evident scholars but rather considered amateurs, even if they had an academic degree. Therefore, the main question in this article is whether and how Power started to build up her scholarly persona while in Paris, trying to overcome her amateur status, to be seen and recognized as a credible, trustworthy scholar. To do so, I analyse two types of personal writing namely Power's diary and letters to her close friend Margery Garrett. Employing the concept of 'autobiographical performativity', I consider these writings as performative acts that help us gain valuable insight into Eileen Power's persona formation during the early stages of her career.
Van De Wal, Rozemarijn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Constructing the Persona of a Professional Historian. On Eileen Power's Early Career Persona Formation and Her Year in Paris, 1910-1911
'Deakin University', 2018Co-Authors: Van De Wal, RozemarijnAbstract:The medieval Historian Eileen Power (1889-1940) was one of Britain’s most eminent female Historians of the first half of the twentieth century. Becoming Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1931, Power gained academic recognition to a degree that was difficult for women to obtain in this period. Numerous writings on Power discuss the period 1920-1921, when she travelled around the world as an Albert Kahn Fellow, considering it a formative year in her career and indicating the importance of travel for achieving scholarly success. In contrast, little attention has been paid to the significance of Power’s first academic journey in 1910-1911, when she spent a year in Paris. This stay abroad would however be equally important since it was then that she decided to pursue a career in medieval history. At the time, even if women had an academic degree, they were not self-evident, Professional scholars. Therefore, the main question in this article is whether and how Power started to build her scholarly persona while in Paris, attempting to construct an identity for herself as a credible and reliable academic. This will be addressed by analysing her personal writings; specifically, her diary and her letters to her close friend, Margery Garrett
Bhattacharya Sourit - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Colonial governance, disaster, and the social in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s novels of 1943 Bengal famine
'Project Muse', 2016Co-Authors: Bhattacharya SouritAbstract:How does a creative writer, situated in a geography of disaster, represent a disaster? Which areas or factors of the disaster does he highlight and which does he ignore? What happens if that writer is also a Professional Historian, journalist, and social scientist? These are some of the questions that this essay asks through a reading of the representation of the 1943–44 Bengal famine in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s novels. The first section concerns the relations between late colonial governance, disaster, and violence in So Many Hungers! (1947), and the second analyses the roles of caste, law, and subaltern agency during this famine in He Who Rides a Tiger (1954). This essay argues that the Second World War, the class basis of the disaster, and the immediacy of suffering compelled Bhattacharya to write in a deeply analytical-ethnographic mode that also had to negotiate with the literary. By studying the novels’ representations of the economic, historical, and political elements of the era, this essay attempts to situate the wider horizons of the social in times of famine
Sourit Bhattacharya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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colonial governance disaster and the social in bhabani bhattacharya s novels of 1943 bengal famine
Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2016Co-Authors: Sourit BhattacharyaAbstract:How does a creative writer, situated in a geography of disaster, represent a disaster? What happens if that writer is also a Professional Historian, journalist, or social scientist? Which areas or factors of the disaster are projected and which discarded? These are some of the questions that this article asks through a reading of the representation of the 1943-44 Bengal famine in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s novels. There are two-fold investigations here: the first section concerns the relations between late colonial governance, disaster, and violence in So Many Hungers! (1947), and the second analyses the role of caste, law, and subaltern agency in the famine times in He Who Rides a Tiger (1954). In doing so, the article also engages with the crisis in anti-colonial bourgeois leadership in India. It argues that the Second World War, the class-basis of the disaster, and the immediacy of suffering compel the writer to take a deeply analytical-ethnographic mode that has to also negotiate significantly with the literary. In a close study of the novels and their representation of the economic, historical, and political elements, the article attempts to situate through literature the wider horizons of the social in famine times.
Colazzo Salvatore - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public History e Pedagogia di Comunità: sulla possibilità di una convergenza
University of Salento, 2019Co-Authors: Colazzo SalvatoreAbstract:EnPublic history is a relationship, mediated by effective communication, between historical knowledge and the public dimension of action. Public history questions above all the places and times of production and the use of history in the polis.Today the question becomes of particular importance, since with the spread of the Internet, the need for history has begun to find satisfaction bypassing the Professional Historian. A story started from the bottom up, by associations, groups and individuals who have undertaken the design of processes to legitimize their convictions, claiming to base them on more or less effective historical reconstructions. The web amplifies a process of appropriation of history that began with the demands of the labor movement and feminism, which had underlined the need to tell the past from other points of view, since the alleged objectivity pursued by the Professional Historian often coincided with the reconstructions that legitimized the domination of the hegemonic classes over the subordinate classes. Public history deals with the problems of recognition and visibility, two themes of great interest for pedagogy. In recent years, the social sciences have emphasized the turning point of social struggles towards the claim of recognition, as if it had been understood that the fundamental question for the dominated groups is not only to have access to more economic resources, but to actually be in able to see the full dignity of their being and their actions. This ethical and political activation can lead to forcing historical truth. But this can be avoided if a culture of the historical method is spread, which requires a rigorous and honest comparison with the sources. In this way it will be possible to establish a less viscous comparison between the social actors and the recognition processes will be facilitated.ItLa Public History è una relazione, mediata da una comunicazione efficace, tra il sapere storico e la dimensione pubblica dell'agire. La Public History si interroga soprattutto sui luoghi e i tempi della produzione e della fruizione della storia nella polis. Oggi la questione diventa di particolare rilievo, poiché con il diffondersi di internet, il bisogno di storia ha cominciato a trovare soddisfazione scavalcando lo storico di professione. Ha cominciato a nascere una storia dal basso, a cura di associazioni, gruppi e singoli che hanno preso a disegnare processi di legittimazione delle loro convinzioni, pretendendo di fondarle su più o meno efficaci ricostruzioni storiche. Il web amplifica un processo di appropriazione della storia che era cominciato con le rivendicazioni del movimento operaio e del femminismo, che avevano sottolineato la necessità di raccontare il passato da altri punti di vista, dal momento che la presunta oggettività perseguita dallo storico professionista spesso ha coinciso con ricostruzioni che legittimavano il dominio delle classi egemoni su quelle subalterne. La Public History ha a che fare con le problematiche del riconoscimento e della visibilità, due temi di grande interesse per la pedagogia. Negli ultimi anni, le scienze sociali hanno sottolineato la viratura delle lotte sociali verso la rivendicazione di riconoscimento, come se si fosse compreso che la questione fondamentale per i gruppi dominati non è solo avere accesso a maggiori risorse economiche, ma potersi vedere effettivamente garantita la piena dignità del loro essere e del loro fare. Quest'attivazione etica e politica può condurre a forzature della verità storica. Tali forzature potranno essere limitate a patto che si diffonda una cultura molto capillare del metodo storico, che esige il confronto con le fonti serrato, rigoroso e onesto. In questo modo sarà possibile istituire un confronto meno viscoso fra gli attori sociali e potranno essere agevolati proprio i processi di riconoscimento
