National Identity (Nationalidentität)

Monthly Editorial: June 2023 Abstract: Is it possible to separate geography from history and what role do place names play in positioning the things they name politically? These are two... Read More ›

The post The British Isles: Simple Geography or Complex Histories? appeared first on Public History Weekly.

Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-5/british-isles-editorial/

11 (2023) 4, Language: French, National Identity (Nationalidentität), Switzerland (Schweiz), Tourism (Tourismus)

From Alpine Myth to Triumphant Tourism

25. Mai 2023 Keine Kommentare

National swiss history means the ideological, political and institutional points of reference which created an Alpine model of tourism.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-4/alpine-myth-tourism/

9 (2021) 2, Augmented Reality (AR), Digital Change (Digitaler Wandel), National Identity (Nationalidentität), Textbook (Schulbuch)

Elastic Textbooks: Pulling National Pasts Forward

18. März 2021 Keine Kommentare

History textbooks have always been changing. From textual narratives in the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century’s books filled with images, source documents and tasks. Now, in our postdigital twenty-first century, textbooks are moving online as apps and websites. But what happens to the content as textbooks’ materiality changes? I suggest here that textbooks are “elastic”. Like an elastic band, they pull the national(ist) past, which was once the reason to institutionalise history education, with them. First, textbooks pull on the curriculum. Second, textbooks pull linearity with them. Third, textbooks pull on monovocality. The piece concludes by noting some augmentations which may reshape the elastic band of national(ist) history.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-2/elastic-textbooks/