Historiographical Approach Research Articles

Dinamika Organisasi Lembaga Pendidikan Islam Muhammadiyah

This article discusses the organizational dynamics of Muhammadiyah Islamic educational institutions. The purpose of this study is to find out how changes occur in the organization of Muhammadiyah Islamic educational institutions, including the factors that influence them and the programs developed to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education offered. Through socio-historical analysis with a historiographical approach, the factors influencing the development of this educational institution were identified, including political policies, social and cultural changes, technological developments, and Muhammadiyah’s educational thoughts and movements. Development programs developed to improve the quality of education are also reviewed, such as curriculum development, human resources, facilities and infrastructure, learning methods and technology, and cooperation with other educational institutions. The results of this study are that there are four dynamic periods of educational development in the Muhammadiyah organization, namely the pioneer period (1900-1923), the development period (1923-1/970), the development period (1923-1970), the institutionalization period (1970-1998), and the transformation period. (1998-present). In the 1970s, the development of Islamic education in the Muhammadiyah body began with the establishment of schools plus religion, which became the forerunner to the establishment of the Muhammadiyah Islamic Boarding School.

ClaireWeeda: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950–1250: Medicine, Power and Religion. York: York Medieval Press, 2021; pp. 346.

ClaireWeeda: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950–1250: Medicine, Power and Religion. York: York Medieval Press, 2021; pp. 346.

Historical Perspective on Mental Health: Emergence, Transformations of Subjectivity and Consequences in Clinical Practices

Mental health has become a prolific field of research, concern, debate and intervention in the health sciences and human sciences in the last two decades. The fundamental interest of this brief history of the concept of mental health is to analyze the semantic and pragmatic configuration of the concept. There is a wide range of social uses of mental health. In the conditions of life of post-industrial capitalism since the Second World War, mental health has become a field of production of discourses and commodities addressed to the individual as coping templates, tools for self-understanding of their lives or mechanisms of meaning to overcome the difficulties of life. The event of mental health entails registers social events, socially mediated life experiences, cultural meanings, as well as capacities of agency over reality to the point of becoming a systematic articulation of human acts and contents of experience that ordered reality, therefore, it acquired the quality of a concept. Mental health is of relevance for historical work because it has left in its wake sources of various categories that require an exercise of compilation, systematization, reflection and narration. It is a reflexive concept for history: it reflects on experience, functions, practices and uses. It is part of what has been called the linguistic turn and the emotional turn, the awareness that both language and affective sensitivities sediment the understanding of the world. For this historiographic approach it is necessary to understand the context of emergence, the transformations of subjectivity, the consequences on clinical practices, and the means that have allowed its scientific and cultural appropriation in the second half of the twentieth century.

Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)

This article focuses on the realization of official government regulations of egalitarianism policy in secondary technical schools, especially on the informal practice that was “quietly” tolerated by the communist regime. The research is based on the historiographical approach of the history of everyday life. The primary research method is the oral history method based on interviews with witnesses—teachers who worked at secondary technical schools in the period under review. Research using the oral history method is further supplemented by the study of period legislation, periodicals, and the study of archival materials obtained in the National Archives in Prague and the Brno City Archives. The study provides a unique illustration of the application of the policy of egalitarianism in the everyday life of secondary technical schools in the normalization period in Czechoslovakia. In particular, the witnesses’ recollections reveal a practice toward some students that went beyond government regulations and influenced their studies in various ways, including admission procedures, dealing with disciplinary offenses, graduation, and obtaining a school-leaving certificate.

Rice Farmers’ Agrarian Dynamics, a Historical Perspective

Abstract: As the staple food of Indonesians, rice has become an economic and political commodity in the country. This study aims to analyze the agrarian dynamics of rice farmers from a historical perspective, focusing on studying how the agrarian change affected the rice production mode in the present situation. The historiography approach used to produce critical analysis was complemented by tracing literature studies, especially in West Java, one of the main rice producers in Indonesia. The results showed that the structure of land tenure and ownership in rice farming had undergone a fundamental change. The dynamics that appear in rice can be seen at the level of agricultural technology intervention and local and national policies, which have experienced changes due to pressure from the agricultural production input sub-system. This pressure led to a change in peasant institutions that shifted from informal to formal, which was not in line with the structure of land tenure and ownership, which was still dominated by petty commodity producers. Keywords: Agrarian dynamics, farmers, historical, paddy

Viper on the Hearth's Unfinished Business: Anti-Mormonism and Mormon Studies

<i>Viper on the Hearth</i>'s Unfinished Business: Anti-Mormonism and Mormon Studies

Deconstruction Overflowed

This article seeks to characterize deconstruction (and “theory” generally) as a practical activity in order to assess its potential effects in view of Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach. Taking its cue from Derrida’s reference to the “inner edge of philosophy” in Theory and Practice, the article juxtaposes Derrida’s ostensibly philosophical approach with the contentious, historiographic approach taken by Ian Hunter. Reflecting on the activity of deconstruction from the outer edge of philosophy, as it were, the discussion first reviews Derrida’s diagnosis of the philosophical impulse to monopolize authority over all theory and practice, then interprets this move via Hunter’s “empirical” attempt to situate and analyze different modes of philosophizing as concrete exercises in self-problematization. The discussion highlights the surprising convergences in Derrida’s and Hunter’s arguments before adopting this view from the outer edge of philosophy in order to reassess where and how deconstruction’s practical effects may be registered.

Should Wine History Have a Post-colonial Future? British Imperial Viticulture and Settler Colonialism

As the history of wine emerges as a field of scholarly study, scholars may wish to consider the historiographical and theoretical approaches best suited to its study, particularly in regards to recent research into the central role of colonization in the global spread of viticulture. This article gives an overview of some major historiographical approaches to wine history, noting the general absence of overarching discussions of imperialism and colonialism. Then, to illustrate some of the complexities of applying these frameworks, it considers two related stories, and briefly retells them through each of three theoretical lenses. The first story is of the creation and operation of the Burgoyne Company, the major British importer of Australian and South African wine from the 1870s through the 1950s. The second story is of Burgoyne, and others, importing their wine into the Irish market. These microhistories illustrate what is potentially at stake, and what is complicated, in incorporating colonial and post-colonial frameworks into our understanding of wine history.

The mosaic of African feminisms: An historiographic approach of political eras

Resumo A historiografia feminista tradicionalmente é narrada por meio de ondas, que demarcam momentos e agendas da mobilização das mulheres. Essa narrativa, porém, é centrada primariamente nas experiências euro-americanas. Alternativas a essa abordagem têm surgido recentemente como forma de conferir significado aos feminismos de outros lugares, em particular do Sul Global. Os feminismos africanos, mais especificamente, inovam sua historiografia ao chamar a atenção para o colonialismo como eixo analítico das experiências das mulheres do continente. Neste artigo, discuto a proposta de analisar os feminismos africanos a partir de eras políticas centradas no colonialismo. Discuto como as feministas africanas articulam suas interpretações acerca dos movimentos de mulheres no continente vis-à-vis esse eixo analítico e em cada uma das eras políticas. Com essa abordagem, argumento que os feminismos africanos são melhor compreendidos como feminismos em mosaico, dada sua diversidade e multiplicidade de agendas e demandas.

Hungarian and International Russian Studies in a Modern Academic Journal: Overview and Trends

Russian studies have a decade-long tradition in Hungary. As part of a professional renewal following the change of the regime, new forums were established, including the Eötvös Lóránd University Russian Studies Institute, which later became a centre, and then was replaced by the Centre for the Research and Methodology of Russian Studies. In the meantime, Russian studies workshops were launched at other universities in Pécs, Szeged, Eger, Szombathely, and Debrecen. Research in Russian studies covers a broad spectrum in Hungary both in terms of time and topics, applying a multidisciplinary approach to Russian history and culture. The Russian Studies Hu periodical has undertaken to provide this multi-layered cultural and academic community with a medium and, along with it, a unique opportunity to present their most recent research findings in Russian studies. Representing a broad scholarly perspective, the periodical also promotes cooperation with international researchers studying Russian history and culture. The composition of the editorial board and the content of the issues published so far reflects this approach, with recognised international historians among the authors whose works have been published in the journal between 2019 and 2022. The issues of Russian Studies Hu provide an overview of the trends in modern Russian studies (after 2000). The periodical covers a wide range of historical genres and views and is strongly connected to historiographical approaches. This is especially true of the issues published after 2021, which we will pay particular attention to in our study.

SOVIET CINEMATOGRAPH AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

The article is dedicated to the use of soviet cinema as a historical source in modern Russian historiography. The purpose of the study is a definition of current trends and main streams in this field of historical science. The author considers some methodological aspects and most popular topics raised by the researchers, highlighting the works of a historical perspective. The following approaches in historiography are distinguished: the study of cinema as a historical source of daily and political history of a particular era; cinematography as a tool of official soviet ideology and indoctrination; reflection in films of society’s dominant views on historical events of pre-revolutionary Russia and USSR; cinematography as a teacher suggesting “correct” patterns of behavior for Soviet Union’s citizens; the creation of an actual image of “enemies” in cinema.

Mirjana Gross i Eric Hobsbawm: revolucionarni ili longue durée povjesničari?

Through the personality, work and texts of historians Mirjana Gross and Eric Hobsbawm, this paper tries to compare their professional, methodological, but also ideological starting points, their influence in the context of time, especially the second half and the end of the 20th century, when historiography was undergoing major transformations and an attempt was made to constitute itself as a full-fledged social science while preserving its own critical position and autonomy. It also went through the antithetical dance between modernity and tradition, revolution and longue durée, both as phenomena and historiographical approaches. Gross and Hobsbawm, due to similar scientific ambitions, long professional experience and personal longevity, also because of thematic similarities (movements, revolutions, ideologies, nations, nationalisms, etc.), their (Central) European cultural formation and finally involvement in international theoretical and methodological debates, are the best subjects for possible comparative insights, especially in the framework of Croatian historiography, where otherwise there is a lack of similar comparison between historians.

FROM HEGEL TO SARAMAGO: LITERARY GOSPELS

"From Hegel to Saramago: Literary Gospels" is a comparative retrospective of modern "apocryphal" fiction about the life of Christ. It shows that in line with the cultural innovations resulting from the Enlightenment, the historiographical approach to the desacralization of Christ was established in the world literature of the nineteenth century, while at the turn of the twentieth and even more so the picture changed dramatically. The presented picture presents a rich base for future research and at the same time it is advisable to function as an auxiliary literature in certain study programs

Phenomenon of Sovietness in Russian Historiographical Tradition

The author proposes a new historiographic approach which is based on the identification of the essential lines of the historiographic split without dividing the works according to the disciplinary principle. The author connects another historiographic turn in the study of the phenomenon of Sovietness with the expansion of the source base and, above all, with the appeal to mass personal sources, in particular, letters to the authorities, which, due to the representation of different social groups, make it possible to clarify the process of establishing new Soviet values and, accordingly, existing historiographic conclusions, as well as to verify the theoretical and methodological foundations of modern research. The analysis showed that with all the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, the idea of the dual nature of the phenomenon of Sovietness and the appeal to “greater meanings” seems to be the most promising one, and mass sources contribute to the transition from the study of the abstract Soviet man to the study of “homo soveticus” in all the diversity of his life at different stages of history.

Beyond a Lush Life: Representation and Performativity at America's [Only] Queer Jazz Festival

Beyond a Lush Life: Representation and Performativity at America's [Only] Queer Jazz Festival

La tesis doctoral de Joaquín V. González en un estudio sobre tesis doctorales en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba de fines del Siglo XIX

This work emerges from my ongoing doctoral research, called "The doctoral theses produced in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Córdoba during the period 1883-1904: meanings and representations in the framework of modernization". I develop an analytical approach, from the historiographical approach of intellectual history, of the thesis entitled "Study on the Revolution", written by Joaquín V. González, whose choice justified in the political, social and cultural transcendence of the work and its author. I propose to describe the institutional, social and symbolic context of production of the thesis studied, within the political-ideological process of Argentina in the late nineteenth century and describe the trajectory of the thesis. Considering both, develop a beginning of their analysis, exposing the use of predominant words, such as the word revolution.

Technological myopia

PurposeThis paper provides an argument to consider in more detail the development and application of technology in the context of sustainability. It argues the need to go beyond economic benefit and that timescale is significant.Design/methodology/approachThis argument is based upon Socratic argument and focuses upon the historiography of technology with particular references to agricultural developments. It then proceeds to apply the same arguments to artificial intelligence (AI) and to climate change.FindingsThe findings are encompassed in the argument and show the need to be more open and careful when considering the development, and especially, the implementation of technology to address problems.Practical implicationsThis argument has significant implications for the adoption of technological developments.Social implicationsThe social implications are equally profound and will impact upon the application of technological solutions to current problems.Originality/valueSuch a historiographical approach to this problem has not previously been applied to this.

Fare ricerca sulla storia di Venezia oggi: il seminario Venice in Question

This review describes the topics covered during eleven meetings held from February 4 to June 17, 2021 within the “Venice in Question” seminar, coordinated by Daniele Dibello (Universiteit Gent) and organized by the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie, alongside other Venetian institutions. Presenting recent studies on Venetian history, the seminar involved Italian and international scholars, animating a dialogue between different historiographical approaches and traditions. While embracing a broad chronological span, from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century, the seminar pointed out aspects relevant to scholars of the 18th century.

Evangelical Historiography in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras

AbstractTo better understand how a particular community understands its story, we look at the philosophy, aesthetics, and historical–cultural contexts of those who have written its history. This article analyses an example of colonial era historiography entitledThe Progress of Dogmawritten by Scottish evangelical theologian James Orr. It critically evaluates how Orr’s historiographical approach is at once an asset and a liability for evangelical Christians in the postcolonial era. Orr argued for the cohesiveness and continuity of historical orthodox doctrine, particularly as it stood over against the liberal, deconstructive approaches that were gaining traction in his day. In this sense, Orr’s work may be considered an asset to evangelical Christians today as they attempt to defend a foundationalist reading of history over against that of postfoundational philosophers such as Michel Foucault. There is a concern, however, with Orr’s adaptation of the historical methodology presented by GWF Hegel. This dialectical, linear approach has had a disastrous effect on the evangelical interpretation of doctrinal history. Rich traditions have been ignored or lost, Eurocentrism has prevailed, and many Christians whose home or origin is in the Global South continue to struggle with what they perceive as the residue of the colonial enterprise. This article argues that Evangelical historiography must be reconstructed. In the conclusion, new lines of enquiry are presented that may allow evangelicals to affirm the historical cohesiveness and continuity of their doctrine, while at the same time giving serious consideration to postcolonial sensibilities.

‘Beirut you will rise again’

Abstract This study examines the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of two streets in Beirut (Foch and Weygand) following a series of protests in October 2019 against the Lebanese government. We analyzed signs of protest on those two streets collected in 2020 and compared them to archival data collected back in 2015 prior to the commencement of the protests. We drew upon an expanding LL literature of contestation and resistance and theoretically framed our study in concepts of reclaiming public spaces through protest signs (Martín Rojo, 2014a). Photographic data was collected and analyzed based on a critical discourse historiographical approach (Flowerdew, 2017). Implications with regard to Beirut’s changing identity and conflicting discourses of protest, hope, and censorship competing for space on its streets are presented. The study also presents asynchronous narrative layering as an approach that addresses historical and cultural dimensions and power structures that underlie the narratives that shape protest movements.