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De publieke historicus
Geschiedenis is actueler dan ooit. Het brede publiek snakt naar verhalen over het verleden. Historische games en films 'gebaseerd op waargebeurde feiten' voeren de hitlijsten aan. Ook politici spreken graag hun woordje mee. En toch staat het vak geschiedenis onder druk in het onderwijs. Aan de universiteiten lijdt het historische onderzoek dan weer onder hyperspecialisering, verengelsing en een ver doorgedreven marktdenken. Hoe kunnen academische historici in die omstandigheden nog in dialoog gaan met de samenleving? In de afgelopen drie decennia heeft Bruno De Wever - waarschijnlijk de belangrijkste publiekshistoricus van Vlaanderen - zijn hoofd meer dan eens gebroken over deze vragen. Naar aanleiding van zijn emeritaat zoeken enkele van zijn collega's en oud-studenten mee naar een antwoord. Waarom? Omdat geschiedenis nooit vrijblijvend is. Onder hoofdredactie van Koen Aerts, Maarten Van Ginderachter, Antoon Vrints en Nico Wouters. Met bijdragen van Gita Deneckere, Giselle Nath, Annelies Beck, Kaat Wils, Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, Berber Bevernage, Pieter Lagrou, Margo De Koster, Laura Nys, Fien Danniau en Christophe Verbruggen.
Wartime Schooling and Education Policy in the Second World War
This book deals with the development of private secondary schooling during the Second World War in Belgium. It focuses on how the German occupier used education to gain acceptance of the regime, and discusses the attitudes of Belgian education authorities, schools, teachers and pupils towards the German occupation. Suggesting that the occupation forced Belgian education authorities, such as the Roman Catholic Church, to take certain positions, the book explores the wartime experiences and memories of pupils and teachers. It explains that the German Culture Department was relatively weak in establishing total control over education and that Catholic schools were able to maintain their education project during the war. However, the book also reveals that, in some cases, the German occupation did not need total control over education in order to find support for some authoritarian ideas. As such, Van Ruyskenvelde’s analysis presents a nuanced view of the image of the Catholic Church, schools, teachers and pupils as mere victims of war.
The Use and Abuse of Memory
Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their memories remain part of our lives. In academic and human terms, preserving awareness of this past is an ethical imperative. This volume concerns narratives about—and allusions to—World War II across contemporary Europe, and explains why contemporary Europeans continue to be drawn to it as a template of comparison, interpretation, even prediction. This volume adds a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the trajectories of recent academic inquiries. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, political scientists, and area study specialists contribute wide-ranging theoretical paradigms, disciplinary frameworks, and methodological approaches. The volume focuses on how, where, and to what effect World War II has been remembered. The editors discuss how World War II in particular continues to be a point of reference across the political spectrum and not only in Europe. It will be of interest for those interested in popular culture, World War II history, and national identity studies.
Experience and Memory
Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people’s experiences and memories? What differences and what similarities existed in Eastern and Western Europe? How did the political framework influence the individual and the collective interpretations of the war? Finally, what are the benefits of Europeanizing the history of the Second World War? Experts from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Russia discuss these and other questions in this comprehensive volume.
A Throne in Brussels
Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Local Government in Occupied Europe (1939-1945)
Through a collection of case studies, this volume aims to address the question how the German occupier during World Ward II organized its collaboration with local and regional authorities.
Inside the Radical Right
What explains the cross-national variation in the radical right's electoral success over the last several decades? Challenging existing structural and institutional accounts, this book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes, skills and experiences of radical right activists in eleven different countries. Based on extensive field research and an original data set of radical right candidates for office, David Art links the quality of radical right activists to broader patterns of success and failure. He demonstrates how a combination of historical legacies and incentive structures produced activists who helped party building in some cases and doomed it in others. In an age of rising electoral volatility and the fading of traditional political cleavages, Inside the Radical Right makes a strong case for the importance of party leaders and activists as masters of their own fate.
Flemish Patriots and the Construction of the Nation. How the Flemish Nation Ceased to be 'small'.
This publication is the English translation of the in WT (2015-4) published 'De Vlaamse patriotten en de natievorming. Hoe de Vlaamse natie ophield 'klein' te zijn." H.
Battles and Borders
Battles and Borders. Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas is about literature on the fringes of Europe. The authors all discuss the often unique ways in which literary history and cultural transfer function in peripheral and central regions against the background of shifting national borders in the last two centuries. Special attention is paid to minority and migrant groups in Northwest Europe. The present volume aims to prompt a reconsideration of the concepts of minority' and migrant' cultures and literatures in the past and the present day. It also suggests a new topic for further study: the importance of cultural transfer for migrant groups (whether or not they form a diaspora) and their ability to create new words and to develop new identities.
