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Winds of Change podcast, Episode 4: Robbert-Jan Adriaansen
No full textJoke speaks with Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, associate professor at the History Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam and recently appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University
Winds of Change podcast, Episode 4: Robbert-Jan Adriaansen
No full textJoke speaks with Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, associate professor at the History Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam and recently appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University
Generaties en geschiedenis
No full textHet begrip generatie gebruiken we volgens Robbert-Jan Adriaansen nu vooral om politieke en maatschappelijke discussies over bijvoorbeeld het klimaat of Brexit uit te vechten. Dat reduceert complexe, historische vraagstukken onterecht tot generatieconflicten
Digitalisation and Historical Culture: Internet Memes as Multimodal Historical Analogies
No full textThe digitalization of our communication has a major impact on contemporary historical culture, society's engagement with the past. New media and communication platforms not only change how we share and consume information about the past but also how we interpret it and give it meaning. Social media enable new forms of historical representation, for example through the combined use of image, text, and audio, but also impose limitations and thus guide forms of historical thinking.In this opening lecture of the EuroClio Chair Historical Culture in Transition, Prof. dr. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen specifically addresses the role of internet memes as a new form of historical representation. Using innovative digital methods for image-text analysis, he demonstrates how memes on the popular platform Reddit facilitate analogical reasoning and the role of meme templates in this process. He also discusses the educational possibilities and limitations of using 'multimodal historical analogies' that combine text and image
Digitalisation and Historical Culture: Internet Memes as Multimodal Historical Analogies
No full textThe digitalization of our communication has a major impact on contemporary historical culture, society's engagement with the past. New media and communication platforms not only change how we share and consume information about the past but also how we interpret it and give it meaning. Social media enable new forms of historical representation, for example through the combined use of image, text, and audio, but also impose limitations and thus guide forms of historical thinking.In this opening lecture of the EuroClio Chair Historical Culture in Transition, Prof. dr. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen specifically addresses the role of internet memes as a new form of historical representation. Using innovative digital methods for image-text analysis, he demonstrates how memes on the popular platform Reddit facilitate analogical reasoning and the role of meme templates in this process. He also discusses the educational possibilities and limitations of using 'multimodal historical analogies' that combine text and image
Champions of Regeneration: Conceptions of History and Expectations of the Future of the Praktisch Idealisten Associatie [Practical IdealistsAssociation] (1919-1931)
Get PDFChampions of Regeneration: Conceptions of History and Expectations of the Future of the Praktisch Idealisten Associatie [Practical IdealistsAssociation] (1919-1931)Historical debates about reform movements in the fin de siècle and the interwar period in the Netherlands have focussed on what the Marxist historian Jan Romein once called ‘small faiths’ – naïve idealistic movements resulting from the guilt complex of the bourgeois class. Romein’s analysis has been criticised numerous times and historians have argued that although many ‘small faiths’ did not succeed in reaching their goals, at least they contributed to the imagination of the future. In this article Robbert-Jan Adriaansen argues that such analysis should always be paired with that of the conceptions of history that underlie the imaginations of the future. Not only the imagination, but also the meaning and function of the ‘future’ are historically variable. The ‘small faiths’ were environments par excellence in which conceptions of history were explored that are at odds with the modern historical consciousness usually presupposed in the study of history. Inthis article this approach is used to analyse the Praktisch Idealisten Associatie (1919-1931) – a bourgeois youth movement striving for a new and better society inspired by a conception of history derived from the odd combination of Hegelianism and Theosophy. Het historisch debat over de hervormingsbewegingen van het fin de siècle en het interbellum is lange tijd bepaald geweest door Jan Romeins analyse van deze bewegingen als ‘kleine geloven’ – naïeve idealistische bewegingen die ontstaan zijn uit het schuldcomplex van de burgerlijke klasse. Romeins analyse is al vaak bekritiseerd en historici stellen dat hoewel veel ‘kleine geloven’ hun idealen niet hebben gerealiseerd, zij op zijn minst hebben bijgedragen aan de verbeelding van een nieuwe toekomst. In dit artikel wordt gesteld dat de analyse van deze toekomstbeelden altijd gepaard moet gaan met een analyse van degeschiedopvatting van de betreffende bewegingen. Niet alleen de verbeelding, maar ook de betekenis en functie van de ‘toekomst’ zijn historisch variabel en juist door de ‘kleine geloven’ werd geëxperimenteerd met geschiedopvattingen die afwijken van het moderne historisch besef dat door de geschiedwetenschap doorgaans voorondersteld wordt. In dit artikel wordt deze benadering toegepast op de casus van de Praktisch Idealisten Associatie (1919-1931), een burgerlijke jeugdbeweging die zich in het interbellum de verwezenlijking van een nieuwe, betere samenleving ten doel stelde op basis van een geschiedbeeld ontleend aan de merkwaardige combinatie van hegelianisme en theosofie
Conceptualizing the Period Rush:Ludic Dimensions of Immersive History in Historical Reenactment
Get PDFIn chapter 2, Adriaansen focuses on historical reenactors’ thrill of being immersed in the past while reenacting a historical event, which has often been referred to as the “period rush.” He sets out to conceptualize this phenomenon in the framework of Huizinga’s (1949) and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s (2004) theories of play. By applying ludic theory, it is shown that the immersiveness of the period rush need not be understood as a being immersed in the past itself, but rather as being immersed in the play of the reenactment. Highlighting the play element of reenactments will show that they often function as historical simulations—operationalized models of historical reality and of the behavior of historical actors—rather than as mere representations of the past. In this way this chapter aims at constituting an analytical framework for the interpretation of immersion in the context of historical reenactment that acknowledges that we are not dealing with the past itself, but rather with its traces
Conceptualizing the Period Rush:Ludic Dimensions of Immersive History in Historical Reenactment
Get PDFIn chapter 2, Adriaansen focuses on historical reenactors’ thrill of being immersed in the past while reenacting a historical event, which has often been referred to as the “period rush.” He sets out to conceptualize this phenomenon in the framework of Huizinga’s (1949) and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s (2004) theories of play. By applying ludic theory, it is shown that the immersiveness of the period rush need not be understood as a being immersed in the past itself, but rather as being immersed in the play of the reenactment. Highlighting the play element of reenactments will show that they often function as historical simulations—operationalized models of historical reality and of the behavior of historical actors—rather than as mere representations of the past. In this way this chapter aims at constituting an analytical framework for the interpretation of immersion in the context of historical reenactment that acknowledges that we are not dealing with the past itself, but rather with its traces
Conceptualizing the Period Rush:Ludic Dimensions of Immersive History in Historical Reenactment
Get PDFIn chapter 2, Adriaansen focuses on historical reenactors’ thrill of being immersed in the past while reenacting a historical event, which has often been referred to as the “period rush.” He sets out to conceptualize this phenomenon in the framework of Huizinga’s (1949) and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s (2004) theories of play. By applying ludic theory, it is shown that the immersiveness of the period rush need not be understood as a being immersed in the past itself, but rather as being immersed in the play of the reenactment. Highlighting the play element of reenactments will show that they often function as historical simulations—operationalized models of historical reality and of the behavior of historical actors—rather than as mere representations of the past. In this way this chapter aims at constituting an analytical framework for the interpretation of immersion in the context of historical reenactment that acknowledges that we are not dealing with the past itself, but rather with its traces
Ireland in Ruins. The representation of cultural property destruction during the Irish Revolution in Irish, Anglo-Irish, and English newspapers, 1916-1923
Get PDFThe Irish Revolution (1916-1923) was one of the bloodiest and most violent conflicts in Irish history. Irish paramilitaries fought for an independent Ireland free from British rule. The Easter Rising (1916) lasted a week, in which the Irish Volunteers held out against the British military. During the War of Independence (1919-1921), the IRA fought the military, police and British paramilitary forces, resulting in the Anglo-Irish Treaty that granted Ireland Dominion status and established Northern Ireland’s own Parliament. The Civil War (1922-1923) concluded the Revolution, in which the Pro-Treaty and Anti-Treaty IRA fought each other. The Civil War ended in 1923 with a victory for the Pro-Treaty forces.
This study focusses on the representation of cultural property destruction and the actors involved in Irish, Anglo-Irish, and English newspapers during the Revolution, in which the representation in newspapers will be studied from a framework of nationalism and othering. During this period, many buildings that are considered to be cultural property were destroyed. The study approaches the subject by means of a qualitative content analysis of newspapers articles which allows for a comparison of the newspapers. The research conducted is based on three case studies: the destruction of historic buildings during the Easter Rising, the destruction of Big Houses during the War of Independence, and the destruction of (Catholic) premises during the Belfast Pogroms in 1920-1922. Throughout all these periods, there were censorship regulations in place which influenced the newspapers.
It is argued that during the Easter Rising and the War of Independence, the English and Anglo-Irish newspapers were irrationalising the destruction of buildings by the Irish, stating that the Irish paramilitaries were the enemy of Ireland and Britain, whereas the British troops were attempting to save the buildings or their contents, while also fighting the Irish forces. These newspapers negatively depicted these Irish paramilitaries as the ‘other’ to create a positive image of the self. However, during the pogroms the English and Anglo-Irish newspapers were rationalising the destruction, which was instigated by ‘their (national) community.’ The newspapers negatively depicted the Irish forces, whereas they were justifying the actions of their own troops. The Irish newspapers were doing the opposite. These newspapers were rationalising the destructions of the Easter Rising and Big House destruction, but depicting the Catholics in Belfast as the victims of British troops. Where they attempted to offer a moderate view of the destruction in the first two cases, they irrationalised the destruction of premises during the pogroms. In all cases, the newspapers attempted to present their own nation in a favourable way, by negatively depicting the opposing forces as ‘the other.
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