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Usos do passado, ética e negacionismos, incide sobre um dos maiores problemas enfrentados pelos historiadores e historiadoras na atualidade, a saber, a deslegitimação gradual que a produção científica do saber histórico vem sofrendo a partir da influência de grupos ligados à extrema direita. A crise de autoridade epistêmica que, segundo muitos especialistas, acomete não só a história como outros campos do saber acadêmico, exige respostas que envolvam simultaneamente aspectos epistemológicos e éticos. Os textos do livro contemplam reflexões emergentes da relação da atuação historiadora na pesquisa, na docência e nas atividades desenvolvidas junto à comunidade não acadêmica. Soma-se a isso o compromisso ético e político com a memória dos mortos e com as demandas de homens e mulheres do presente.
A obra 300 anos de histórias negras em Minas Gerais: Temas, fontes e metodologias, organizada por Marileide Lázara Cassoli, aborda questões histórica, social e racial. Reunido em doze capítulos, o livro traz estudos de pesquisadores que se dedicaram a pesquisas e buscaram enfocar as realidades vividas, não só pelos antepassados negros, mas também por seus descendentes. Na busca por seus direitos civis, tratamentos adequados e pela própria liberdade. Aprofundando discussões sobre histórias de resistência, estratégias de sobrevivência e construção da cidadania, que formaram e ainda formam a história da sociedade em que vivemos hoje.
This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of 'Updatism', the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future. Using the theoretical works of Lyotard and Heidegger as its foundation, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History analyses our digital modernity and the significance of key themes, such as updating, solitude, democracy,...
Rodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between eleventh-century reality and the mythology that developed later. By placing El Cid in a fresh, historical context, Fletcher shows us an adventurous soldier of fortune who was of a type, one of a number of "cids," or "bosses," who flourished in eleventh-century Spain. But the El Cid of legend--the national hero -- was unique in stature even in his lifetime. Before his death El Cid was already celebrated in a poem; posthumously he was immortal...
This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.
This volume of comparative studies documents the continuing relevance of the state in environmental politics and policy. The book also demonstrates the analytical power of the comparative approach to the study of environmental politics and policy, offering cross-national comparisons of environmental governance in both developed and developing countries. Some chapters are based on qualitative studies from a small number of countries; others offer statistical analyses of quantitative data from many more countries over a longer time period.
An international team of twelve expert contributors provides both an introduction to and an interpretation of the key themes in German history from the foundation of the Reich in 1871 to the end of the First World War in 1918.
History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by carrying the fight into the center of its domain. Fasolt considers the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/14-57), two antipodes in early modern battles over the principles of European thought and action that ended with the tri...
"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his concern about the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new social history. Admitting that the essays are...