Historiografija/povijest u suvremenom društvu. Zbornik radova s okruglog stola održanog 11. i 12. listopada 2011. u Zagrebu
Historiography/History in Contemporary Society. Collected Papers Presented at Round Table on October 11th and 12th 2011 in Zagreb
Contributor(s): Gordan Ravančić (Editor), Dinko Župan (Editor), Vlasta Švoger (Editor), Ivana Horbec (Editor), Mislav Gregl (Editor)
Subject(s): Media studies, Military history, Social history, Government/Political systems, Methodology and research technology, 19th Century, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Historical revisionism, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Philosophy of History, Politics of History/Memory, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Historiography; History; Croatian History;
Summary/Abstract: The proceedings before you brings together the collected works based on a smaller part of the presentations at the round table "Historiography/History in Contemporary Society". The meeting was held on October 11 and 12, 2011 as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the scientific work of the Croatian Institute of History. The aim of the meeting was to determine historiographical trends over the past half century and to question the diverse research perspectives and methods of using and processing information about historical heritage, to examine different historiographical discourses and the interaction of these discourses with political and educational discourses and to consider their relationship to the phenomenon of memory. Our desire was also to assess the contribution of the Croatian Institute of History and the scientific work of its employees to historical research.
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-953-7840-27-3
- Page Count: 138
- Publication Year: 2014
- Language: Croatian
Suvremena historijska znanost pred izazovom interdisciplinarnosti i transdisciplinarnosti
Suvremena historijska znanost pred izazovom interdisciplinarnosti i transdisciplinarnosti
(Contemporary historical discipline and the challenge of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity)
- Author(s):Zrinka Blažević
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Methodology and research technology, Philosophy of History
- Page Range:11-22
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:historiography; interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity; methodology of history; post-poststructuralist history; theory of history;
- Summary/Abstract:The first part of this text focuses on revision of epistemological postulates, theoretical conceptions and methodological procedures of historical discipline which have been generated by the linguistic and cultural turns during the last two decades. On the epistemological level, these revisionist tendencies are marked by an attempt to establish a dialectic relationship between discursive and non-discursive practices as well as to “embody” historical actors and “materialize” culture. Alongside, “experience” and “practice” have been inaugurated as dominant metatheoretical categories of the contemporary historical discipline. Second part of this text deals with the impulses that historical discipline can absorb from transdisciplinary exchange with various approaches and paradigms of humanities and social sciences (cultural theory, sociology of emotions) as well as of life-sciences (neuroscience) on the example of neurohistory and history of emotions. It is argued that, in this manner, history will be able to increase its own cognitive and interpretative potentials and become creative and imaginative research practice.
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Interdisciplinarnost u urbanoj povijesti: povijest i perspektive
Interdisciplinarnost u urbanoj povijesti: povijest i perspektive
(Interdisciplinarity in urban history: history and perspectives)
- Author(s):Irena Benyovsky Latin
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Historical Geography, Local History / Microhistory, Middle Ages, Methodology and research technology, Rural and urban sociology
- Page Range:23-34
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:urban history; interdisciplinarity; medieval city; medieval studies;
- Summary/Abstract:Urban history is a relatively new field within historiography that has been intensively developed within the European historiographies during the last decades, embracing interdisciplinary approach (though the interdisciplinarity should be included in all the historiographical investigations, especially in the field of medieval studies). However, methodologies of investigation of (medieval) city, as a quite complex socio-spatial organism in the wider European context, are still in the defining process, especially within the Croatian historiography. Investigation of urban history includes results and methodological patterns of other disciplines such as art history, geography, linguistics, and/or archeology. In the European historiographies one can even notice and trace formation of a methodological approach that is quite specific for the urban history and includes knowledge of certain specialized techniques such as design and creation of informational databases. This contribution reveals some research examples and discusses position of (medieval) urban history in the European and particularly Croatian historiographical realm, methodologies of investigation and types of used primary sources.
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Hrvatsko-slavonska vojna krajina u novijoj historiografiji: dva desetljeća istraživanja i otvorenih pitanja
Hrvatsko-slavonska vojna krajina u novijoj historiografiji: dva desetljeća istraživanja i otvorenih pitanja
(Croatian-Slavonian military border in recent historiography: two decades of research and open questions)
- Author(s):Zlatko Kudelić
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Military history, Government/Political systems, Military policy, Politics and religion, Methodology and research technology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
- Page Range:35-50
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Military border; historiography; research; methodology;
- Summary/Abstract:Recent historiography about the Military border – i.e. research that was conducted from the beginning of 1990s’– embraced various topics within domestic and international projects. Scholars investigated topics such as military communities, ecclesiastical union, environmental history of multi-border territories, questions regarding identity of borderline communities, influence of enlightenment processes to the education of military officers in the Monarchy, as well as tolerance and intolerance in the broader South Eastern European region. Although these topics and questions were analyzed from various perspectives, recent syntheses of Croatian history and few scientific articles on history of Military border still incude some unreliable stereotypes of nineteenth century historiography. Among these stereotypes one can emphasize interpretations of immigration and ethnical background of the Orthodox borderers, questions regarding historical background and affiliation of the borderline territories, and religious policy of Vienna court regarding the Military border. Moreover, the author concludes that the recent historiography lacks an interest regarding the investigation of military aspects of Military border history.
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Hrvatska, srpska, austrijska i mađarska historiografija o povijesti Židova od 1868. do danas
Hrvatska, srpska, austrijska i mađarska historiografija o povijesti Židova od 1868. do danas
(Croatian, Serbian, Austrian and Hungarian historiography on history of Jews since 1868)
- Author(s):Ljiljana Dobrovšak
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
- Page Range:51-70
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Jews; Judaism; historiography; Croatia;
- Summary/Abstract:In the Croatian historiography of the second half of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth century not much attention was paid to the history of Jews. Only at the turning of the centuries several articles written by some Croatian novelists and journalists can be noticed. At the same time, it is important to note that there were just a few Jewish authors who dealt with their own history. The positive examples were Julije Diamant Grand Rabbi of Vukovar and Gavro Schwarz Rabbi of Zagreb. During the inter-war period there was not much written about Jewish history in Croatia – at the beginning of 20s’ and in the late 30s’ of the twentieth century just two Jewish writers can be traced: Lavoslav Šik and Lavoslav Glesinger. On the other hand, after the World War Two the situation significantly changed. Namely, after the war there was no one in Jewish communities in Croatia who would be interested in investigation of Jewish history. Thus, in the 50s’ authorities founded Jewish historical museum in Belgrade in order to invoke investigation and preserve memory about the history of Jews in the territory of Yugoslavia. Although this museum became a center that gathered a certain number of researchers, none of them ever became predominantly involved in the research of Jewish history. Still, from the 50s’ one can notice a number of articles and discussions dealing with the history of Jews in Croatia and Slavonia (works by Slavko Gavrilović, Miroslava Despot-Bliss etc.), and also in Dalmatia (works by Duško Kečkemet and Bernard Stulli). By the end of the twentieth and at the beginning of the twenty first century attitude towards investigation of the history of Jews has changed. During the last several years many books, articles, memoirs have been published including studies about holocaust and histories of Jews within small local communities.
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Komunikologijske teorije i historiografija
Komunikologijske teorije i historiografija
(Communication theories and historiography)
- Author(s):Tihomir Cipek
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Media studies, Government/Political systems, Politics and communication
- Page Range:71-78
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:democracy; media; historiography; policy;
- Summary/Abstract:Author discusses relations among democracy, media and historiography. The main thesis is that historiography has an important role in legitimacy of a political system. On example of the basic communication theories author reveals importance of political communication and the media for a normal functioning of democracy. On the basis of the media selection code author describes the ways historiographical topics are used by modern media. The analysis includes cases from Western Europe and Croatian radio-television. In the conclusion author emphasizes the importance of interpretation of historiographical knowledge in the media for the development of democracy.
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Diskurs sjećanja u sjeni prošlosti 20. stoljeća
Diskurs sjećanja u sjeni prošlosti 20. stoljeća
(Discourse of memory in the shadow of the past of the twentieth century)
- Author(s):Nada Kisić Kolanović
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Criminal Law, International Law, Law and Transitional Justice, Military history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
- Page Range:79-99
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:memory; history; identity; transitional culture of remembrance;
- Summary/Abstract:Author analyzes discursive praxis in confronting the past and reasons why such approach is considered as a stabilizing concept within historiography. The example of holocaust and its implementation within national and transnational memory of the entire humankind shows how history and memory coexist. Namely, a historiography is inspired by a new model of ethical awareness that imposes revealing of a negative memory in order to avoid repetition and manipulation of the remembrance, especially regarding possible retroactive justification of historical crimes. Generally speaking, such a concept of confronting the past opens question about “negative memories”, and maintains idea that not speaking about historical evil enables its possible return in the future. From the perspective of historical memory one can say that historiography today emphasizes its ethical orientation. Historians today do not have a monopoly on interpreting the past, and this fact enables dialogue between historiography and other scholarly disciplines. Namely, during the last twenty years many sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, literary scholars and philosophers contributed a lot in the investigation of contradictions and anomalies that accompany transformation of a living communicated remembrance to the commemorative and institutionalized memory. The question of transformation of individual remembrance to collective memory is rather well investigated in the relation to the meaning and significance of social obligation towards a social group, especially regarding question of merging or debarring of certain memories. Author also points out some examples of making the memories in Croatia during the transition period in 1990s’. Moreover, question of rememorizing the World War Two (1941-1945) is discussed in comparison to the rising of social importance of the remembrance of the Homeland War (1991- 1995), especially in the relation to the decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and collapse of communism in the Central and South-Eastern Europe provoked numerous nationalistic re-interpretations in the small local historiographies. Consequently, some of the Croatian historians during 1990s’ treated their nation as a victim, and confronting the past was rather strongly present in the investigation of victims of communism 1945- 1990, which was necessary at that time because of the need to create a social balance. Nowadays some recent studies show that Croatian historians are more open towards new theoretical approaches within the research field of culture of remembrance. Finally, there is an open question of memorial function of the Homeland War 1991-1995. Namely, many analysts think that international justice has failed in the case of processing crimes during the Yugoslav war. If the International Court of Justice took more clear and undisputable position regarding crime against peace that was committed by Milošević’s Serbia during the aggression to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, we could do much more effective work regarding negation of mass crimes and recurrence of genocide in Europe.
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Suvremena iskustva i rezultati suodnosa hrvatske i srbijanske historiografije (Dijalog povjesničara / istoričara)
Suvremena iskustva i rezultati suodnosa hrvatske i srbijanske historiografije (Dijalog povjesničara / istoričara)
(Contemporary experiences and results of correlation between Croatian and Serbian historiographies (Dijalog povjesničara / istoričara))
- Author(s):Igor Graovac
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Comparative politics, Methodology and research technology, History of Communism, Conference Report
- Page Range:101-108
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Croatian and Serbian historiography; dialogue of historians from Croatia and Serbia; international scholarly conferences Dijalog povjesničara / istoričara; proceedings;
- Summary/Abstract:After the collapse of the second Yugoslavia all the official bonds that Croatian historiography had with other former Yugoslav historiographies were broken. Still, the cooperation among historians was soon renewed, especially between Croatian and Serbian historians through participation on the international scholarly conferences called Dijalog povjesničara / istoričara (Dialogue among historians) organized by Foundation Friedrich Naumann. During eight years (1998-2005) the foundation organized 10 conferences, and published the conference proceedings. These conferences managed to gather 165 participants (from twelve different countries), who delivered their papers and worked in the form of workgroups. The most important part of these conferences is the fact that they were organized without any political influence, though many participants emphasized idea of international and internal reconciliation project. However, this reconciliation does not include political reconciliation but only reconciliation with the past. Throughout the years, these conferences showed that historians from both countries can cooperate and exchange ideas without any significant problem but only in the framework of a scholarly dialogue.
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Mediji i činjenice – interpretacija događaja iz Domovinskoga rata
Mediji i činjenice – interpretacija događaja iz Domovinskoga rata
(Media and facts – interpretation of the Homeland War)
- Author(s):Ante Nazor
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Media studies, Military history, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
- Page Range:109-126
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:historiography; media; Homeland War;
- Summary/Abstract:Many events that happened during the Homeland War were not correctly interpreted in the media. Author reveals three examples, in fact historiographical question, about which Croatian media discussed much during the last several years. The first is the question who was the first fallen Croatian defender; the second is the problem whether Serbs were expunged from the first Croatian Constitution; and the third topic was related to the, so called, artillery log books of the liberation operation Oluja (Storm). Namely, comparative analysis of the available primary sources and what was written and broadcasted in the Croatian media, reveals that some of journalists, and also some of historians, who dealt with these topics were deliberately not objective. Moreover, it seems that these problems were treated in sensationalistic manner, with tendency to misinform the public, which could lead to the incorrectly shaped public opinion and imposition of responsibility / guilt to the Croatian policy and Croatians in relation to some events from the recent history.
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Problem revizije u povijesnoj znanosti
Problem revizije u povijesnoj znanosti
(Problem of revision in historiography)
- Author(s):Zdenka Janeković Römer
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Epistemology, Methodology and research technology, Historical revisionism, Philosophy of History
- Page Range:127-136
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:historiography; methodology; revision; historical science;
- Summary/Abstract:A great discussion about the notion of revision of history can recently be followed. Many researchers (Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Ronald Hutton, Arthur Marwick, Ernst Nolte, Deborah Lipstadt, François Furet, Gabrielle Spiegel, Jonathan Gorman, Ethan Kleinberg etc.) approach this problem from theoretical and methodological point of view. Even the notion of revision itself is under discussion. Other topics include methods of revisionism, evolutionary / revolutionary aspects of this process of history revision, (un)necessity of consensus among historians and other researchers regarding the change of paradigm, problem of interpretation, and territorial / temporal framework of revision. On the other hand, the problem of historical revision in the Croatian historiography has not been discussed theoretically as legitimate part of historiography, but only as a part of ideological or political paradigms. Namely, the notion of revisionism is tightly connected with negation of notorious historical facts, primarily in relation to (war) crimes. Such aspects of revisionism in fact can be covered by some other terms such as negationism, misuse, distortion, falsification, ideologization, and political manipulation / control of history. By the same token, with such a precise usage of terminology regarding the notion of revisionism one could avoid misunderstanding and misusage of terms. At the same time, historiography would not be burdened with political or ideological boundaries that limit scholarly investigation and interpretation of historical facts. However, disapproving of historical revisionism often does not argue impartiality of historical facts but aims at defending of some historical interpretations, treating them as historical truth, which basically leads to ideologization that cannot be scholarly acceptable since such approach prevents scientific development of historiography. Of course, history has its social and political role, but as a scholarly discipline it must not become “storage” of historical facts and “acceptable” interpretations. The basic meaning of term “revision” is “re-view”, that is interpretation and re-interpretation, thinking about history from different angles and perspectives and such an approach is distinctive scholarly tool of historiography. New scholarly methodologies and methods enable historiography to detect new historical facts, sources and other testimonies of the past times. However, this does not mean that we should avoid reinterpretation of existing interpretations and theses, since new methods impose new sets of questions that can change / broaden our perspective of research of the historical events / past. Some of historical sub-disciplines have already empirically demonstrated what new can be done if we only take a different angle of monitoring the historical facts. For example, women’s history has completely redefined modernists’ paradigm of the European male political elite history. Similarly, reinterpretation of the Middle Ages, renaissance, French revolution, American civil war, Eurocentric historiographical approach opened a completely new vision of global historical development, and, as we speak, discussion about revisionism regarding the World War One, World War Two, and Cold War period goes through tremendous change. Regarding theoretical discussion one can notice the recent examples of post-modern revision of post-structuralism, and such radical position of post-modernist supporters mainly was provoked by an unjustified glorification of objectivism in historiography, since post-modernists have revealed that “objective discourse” is basically another ideological construction. Namely, modernists’ empiricism thought of historical facts as something that was “found” in the past, unrelated to any interpretation, and consequently that historical cognition is absolute and independent from our perspective. However, such point of view basically leads to the instrumentalization of historiography with imposition of absolute essential concepts, often heavily burdened with political and ideological positions. Istrumentalization of history for some political reasons produces questionable and limited knowledge that is subjected to a political power. Various political and socially engaged groupations seek in history their own “acceptable past”, their identity, legitimacy and continuity. Historiography in their eyes represents only a tool for their non scholarly shaped goals. Such an approach towards history can be traced within dominant and marginal parties equally, but it is particularly evident among those who control institutions and educational system. Consequently, historical events and processes are put into present-day context, and historiography becomes a kind of tool and authority for legitimacy of the past. As George Orwell said: He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
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