Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. The Politics of Historical Thinking V
3. Contents VII
4. Part One: History from Below: Reflexions on a Global Phenomenon
5. 1 The Upside-Down World Turned Upside Down Again? 1
6. 2 History from Below and the Populist Temptation: Nationalism, Indigenism and Authenticity 29
7. Part Two: National and Regional Varieties
8. 3 Microhistory and Micropolitics. The Political Background to a New Historiographical Approach 57
9. 4 Barfußhistoriker and Geschichtswerkstätten – History from Below in West Germany in the Late 1970s and the 1980s 85
10. 5 Indigenous History from Below? Problems and Perspectives from the Pacific 113
11. 6 Horizontality and Decolonisation of Knowledge: Doing Oral History in Latin America 141
12. Part Three: Case Studies
13. 7 Jerusalem’s History from Below – a History of Personal and Historiographical Transitions 175
14. 8 Art “from Below”: Activating Socially Engaged Art at a Site-in-Conflict – the Israeli-Palestinian Case 197
15. 9 Regimes at Play: Rethinking Games, Agency, and Power Relations under the Portuguese Estado Novo 227
16. 10 Violence during the Transition “From Below” in South Africa 259
17. Biographical Notes
18. Selected Bibliography
19. Index