3 Two Sides of Activist Scholarship Within UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1964–1998)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. The Politics of Historical Thinking V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction
5. 1 New Roles for Professional Historians and New Public Uses of the Past 1
6. Part One: Histoires Engagées: A Critical Look Back
7. 2 Eric Hobsbawm as a Public Champion of Cosmopolitan Universalism 37
8. 3 Two Sides of Activist Scholarship Within UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1964–1998) 65
9. 4 Colonial Historiography, Hindutva, and the Difficulty of Reading the Ancient Indian Historical Traditions 89
10. Part Two: Law and Historical Expertise
11. 5 Challenges of Historical Expert Witnessing in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Elsewhere 117
12. 6 The Waitangi Tribunal and the Public Life of History 141
13. Part Three: Old and New Public Demands on Professional Historians
14. 7 Between Discipline and Profession: Historical Studies and Their Public Relevance in Brazil 163
15. 8 Policy-Oriented History for the EU: The Rise of a New Type of Professional Practice for Historians? 185
16. 9 Indigenous History, Activism, and the Decolonizing University: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Struggle over the Khoisan Past in Post-apartheid South Africa 213
17. Part Four: Public History in New Media
18. 10 Russian Public Historians in the New Media (The Case of Telegram) 245
19. 11 Practices of Popular Science and Digital Curation in Theory of History on the Portuguese Edition of Wikipedia 271
20. Part Five: Perspectives: Moral, Epistemic, and Political
21. 12 Historians and Human Rights Advocacy 299
22. 13 The Politics of Memory and the Task of Historians 327
23. 14 Languages of Legitimation and the Registers of Legitimate History 351
24. Biographical Notes 373
25. Selected Bibliography on ‘Public Uses of the Past and the Role of Professional Historians in the Public Sphere’ 379
26. Index 385