Signing on: A Contractarian Understanding of How Public History is Used for Civic Inclusion

What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understoo...

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主要作者: Abrahams, Daniel (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2023
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2023, 卷: 26, 發布: 5, Pages: 651-665
Further subjects:B 公眾史學
B Applied Ethics
B Contractarianism
B Social and political philosophy
B Collective Memory
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總結:What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understood as representing groups as a society's contracting parties. One particular value of the contractarian approach is that it helps to elucidate the phenomenon of "signing on," where a marginalized or oppressed group is offered membership in a society without the social order being meaningfully changed.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-023-10386-0