Description:
- This proposed volume draws on three decades of applied research into historical consciousness--comparative, national, and focused--to tease out what has been learned from the field.
- It asks leading scholars from around the world to reflect on their research and their practice--as historians, ethnographers, history educationists, social scientists and demographers--to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.
- This collection of scholarly, yet personal, essays explores the possibilities and limitations of research in historical consciousness, and poses important questions about future directions.
Brief description:
Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. Her latest book, Private Lives, Public History (2016), uses interviews with one hundred Australians to consider the ways personal connections to the past intersect with broader historical narratives and debates.
Review Quotes:
"Without any doubt, this expansive volume represents an important contribution to research on historical consciousness. Expert authors, including some new and promising voices, offer a concise overview of the field while developing thought-provoking new ideas." - Carlos Kölbl, University of Bayreuth
"Clearly written and engaging, Contemplating Historical Consciousness makes new and important contributions to the current conversation on historical consciousness by giving readers a glimpse into the researchers' thought processes, their conceptual frameworks, the aspirations for their own work, and their hopes for the field." - Ann Chinnery, Simon Fraser University