- Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Stephan Scheuzger
Bern University, Department of History, Faculty Member
This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history,... more
This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history, including memory laws, monuments and memorials, state-archives, science policies, history in schools, truth commissions, historical expert commissions, the use of history in courts and tribunals etc. The handbook contributes to the study of history and public memory by combining elements of state-focused research in separate fields of study. By looking at the state’s memorialising capacities the book introduces an analytical perspective that is not often found in classical studies of the state. The handbook has a broad geographical focus and analyses cases from different regions around the world. The volume mainly tackles democratic contexts, although dictatorial regimes are not excluded.
[Contributing authors: Ąžuolas Bagdonas, Onur Bakiner, Tomas Balkelis, Denise Bentrovato, Berber Bevernage, Luigi Cajani, José Gabriel Cristancho Altuzarra, Kurt W. Clausen, Rommel A. Curaming, Violeta Davoliūtė, Antoon De Baets, Pierre-Olivier de Broux, Ramses Delafontaine, Francesca Dominello, Lawrence Douglas, Cornelia Eisler, Oz Frankel, Idesbald Goddeeris, Richard J. Golsan, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Martha Cecilia Herrera Cortés; Gisele Iecker de Almeida; Matt James; Michael Karabinos; Alexander Karn; Dora Komnenović , Stiina Löytömäki, Lynn Lemisko, Seiko Mimaki, Gotelind Müller-Saini, Ewa Ochman, Carol Pertuz-Bedoya, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Vladimir Petrović, Eva-Clarita Pettai, Gertjan Plets, Ilaria Porciani, Lutz Raphael, Erna Rijsdijk, Achim Rohde, Stephan Scheuzger, Nina Schneider, Peter Seixas, Dorothea Staes, Pietro Sullo, Shanti Sumartojo, Patrizia Violi, Torsten Weber, Ben Wellings, Niké Wentholt, Christian Wicke, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Nico Wouters]
[Contributing authors: Ąžuolas Bagdonas, Onur Bakiner, Tomas Balkelis, Denise Bentrovato, Berber Bevernage, Luigi Cajani, José Gabriel Cristancho Altuzarra, Kurt W. Clausen, Rommel A. Curaming, Violeta Davoliūtė, Antoon De Baets, Pierre-Olivier de Broux, Ramses Delafontaine, Francesca Dominello, Lawrence Douglas, Cornelia Eisler, Oz Frankel, Idesbald Goddeeris, Richard J. Golsan, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Martha Cecilia Herrera Cortés; Gisele Iecker de Almeida; Matt James; Michael Karabinos; Alexander Karn; Dora Komnenović , Stiina Löytömäki, Lynn Lemisko, Seiko Mimaki, Gotelind Müller-Saini, Ewa Ochman, Carol Pertuz-Bedoya, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Vladimir Petrović, Eva-Clarita Pettai, Gertjan Plets, Ilaria Porciani, Lutz Raphael, Erna Rijsdijk, Achim Rohde, Stephan Scheuzger, Nina Schneider, Peter Seixas, Dorothea Staes, Pietro Sullo, Shanti Sumartojo, Patrizia Violi, Torsten Weber, Ben Wellings, Niké Wentholt, Christian Wicke, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Nico Wouters]
Biographies of internationalists provide a promising approach to the global history of Communism, especially in the interwar years. A prominent figure of internationalism in this period was Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist,... more
Biographies of internationalists provide a promising
approach to the global history of Communism,
especially in the interwar years. A prominent figure
of internationalism in this period was Manabendra
Nath Roy, Indian nationalist, high-level cadre of the
Communist International and one of the organization's
leading experts for the so-called national or
colonial question. Taking as an example a recently
written biography of Roy, which highlights his
capacity as an intermediary between many worlds,
the article explores the potential and limitations
of a central analytical category of global history
approaches-cosmopolitanism-for the research on
Communism between the world wars.
approach to the global history of Communism,
especially in the interwar years. A prominent figure
of internationalism in this period was Manabendra
Nath Roy, Indian nationalist, high-level cadre of the
Communist International and one of the organization's
leading experts for the so-called national or
colonial question. Taking as an example a recently
written biography of Roy, which highlights his
capacity as an intermediary between many worlds,
the article explores the potential and limitations
of a central analytical category of global history
approaches-cosmopolitanism-for the research on
Communism between the world wars.
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Historical approaches to the study of transitional justice are rare. In the process of its expansion to the dominating paradigm in dealing with past injustices, the field experienced extensive changes. Scholarship about transitional... more
Historical approaches to the study of transitional justice are rare. In the process of its expansion to the dominating paradigm in dealing with past injustices, the field experienced extensive changes. Scholarship about transitional justice, however, has hardly ever taken into account these shifts in appropriate ways. This article examines from a historical point of view how knowledge about transitional justice was generated and transferred across the borders of the national sites of dealing with the past. It asks for the groups of actors involved and analyses the effects that the transformations of the knowledge circulation and the changes in the relationship between the actors had on the development of the field since the late 1980 s. The focus thereby is on the instrument of truth commissions.
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It was the complex and far-reaching transformation of the Mexican Revolution rather than the First World War that left its mark on Mexican history in the second decade of the 20 th century. Nevertheless, although the country maintained... more
It was the complex and far-reaching transformation of the Mexican Revolution rather than the First World War that left its mark on Mexican history in the second decade of the 20 th century. Nevertheless, although the country maintained its neutrality in the international conflict, it was a hidden theatre of war. Between 1914 and 1918, state actors in Germany, Great Britain and the United States defined their policies towards Mexico and its nationalist revolution with a view not only to improve their respective economic interests but also to influence the course of the world war.
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Braucht die Schweiz eine Geschichte? Dringender denn je, lassen die diversen neuen Schweizer Geschichten vermuten, die in den letzten Jahren erschienen sind. Auch Jakob Tanners 2015 publizierte «Geschichte der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert»... more
Braucht die Schweiz eine Geschichte? Dringender denn je, lassen die diversen neuen Schweizer Geschichten vermuten, die in den letzten Jahren erschienen sind. Auch Jakob Tanners 2015 publizierte «Geschichte der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert» stellt die Nation ins Zentrum. Allerdings weist Tanner auch auf die Grenzen der Nationalgeschichte hin. Zum Welttag des Buches diskutieren wir, welche Fragen eine Geschichte der Schweiz beantworten kann und welche sie übersieht. Was für Impulse kann die Schweizer Geschichte von der Migrations- und der Globalgeschichte übernehmen? Wo steht die Schweiz in der Welt? Wer bringt die Welt in die Schweiz? Braucht die Geschichte überhaupt eine Schweiz?
