Sociology of identity
Week 11 IDENTITY. THE REPRESENTATION IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
‘… perhaps we should think of history writing, not as something that engages in the building of national identities, but rather as something that critiques all historical identity-claims, and in doing so, as a by-product, opens a space for constitutional allegiances and behavioural norms that stand at a remove from what is simply given to us by the past.’
Allan Megill "Historical Representations: Identity Allegiance" in: Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas, Andrew Mycock (eds.) "Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts". Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008, 32.
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