Common Ground: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Public History and the NCPH

Scarpino, Philip V.

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“…Shopes misalnya berpandangan, Sejarah Awam adalah usaha membina wacana sejarah yang sarat dengan pemikiran, kritikal, bermakna, sekaligus, mudah-akses bagi khalayak awam (lihat Cole Jr., 1994). Pandangan Shopes disokong Scarpino (1994) dengan menyatakan Sejarah Awam adalah cara memahami dan menghasilkan wacana sejarah berwibawa untuk tatapan khalayak. Hal ini dipertegas lagi oleh Jordanova (2000) dengan menyatakan Sejarah Awam bersifat popular, yang dihasilkan untuk konsumsi masyarakat awam.…”

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Sejarah Awam, Pemikiran Dan Aktivisme Omar Mohd Hashim (Public History, Thought and Activism of Omar Mohd Hashim)

Ahmad Shatir

2023

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Sejarah Awam (Public History) sebuah konsep baharu di Malaysia. Namun secara praktisnya, fenomena yang dirujuk sebagai ‘Sejarah Awam’ bukan hal asing di negara ini. Ia telah lama berkembang semenjak era penulisan hikayat lagi. Dalam hal ini, fenomena tersebut boleh dikatakan sekadar ‘baharu’ menemukan landasan heuristik. Artikel ini cuba menghujah serta mempertahankan usulan di atas secara konseptual dan empirikal melalui gandingan konsep Sejarah Awam dengan keprihatinan Allahyarham Tan Sri (Dr.) Omar Mohd Hashim ke atas fenomenanya sebelum ia ditakrif sebagai ‘Sejarah Awam.’ Analisis memfokuskan dua perkara. Pertama, pemikiran sejarah Omar dan kedua, aktivisme beliau bersama organisasi pimpinannya, Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia. Fokus perbincangan ini bukan sahaja untuk memprofilkan pemikiran dan aktivisme Omar, tetapi juga memperlihatkan Sejarah Awam dalam bentuk fenomena telah muncul lebih awal sebelum ia dikonseptualisasikan. Hal ini penting bagi mengimbangi beberapa penulisan terdahulu, yang seolah-olah melihat fenomena ‘Sejarah Awam’ hanya muncul setelah konsepnya diartikulasikan secara formal. Artikel ini bersifat argumentatif dengan menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan ke atas data primer, temubual dan juga bahan sekunder. Penemuan artikel ini adalah, dalam kes Malaysia, meskipun konsep ‘Sejarah Awam’ muncul lebih terkemudian, namun keprihatinan ke atas fenomenanya telah wujud semenjak sekian lama. ABSTRACT ‘Public History’ is a new concept in Malaysia. Practically, the phenomenon referred as 'Public History' is not novel in this country. It has been developing for a long time since the era of traditional historical writing. In this case, the phenomenon can be simply said as a 'new' finding on a heuristic basis. This article tries to argue and defend the above proposal, conceptually and empirically through the coupling of the concept of Public History and the concern of the late Tan Sri (Dr.) Omar Mohd Hashim on the phenomenon before it was defined as 'Public History.' The analysis focuses on two things. First, Omar’s historical thought and second, his activism with Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia (PSM). The focus of this discussion is not only to profile Omar's thoughts and activism, but also to show Public History in the form of a phenomenon that has appeared earlier before it was conceptualized. This is important to neutralize some previous writings, which seemed to see the phenomenon of 'Public History' only appearing after the concept has been formally articulated. This article is argumentative by using content analysis methods on primary data, interviews and also secondary materials. The finding of this article is that in the case of Malaysia, although the concept of 'Public History' appeared later, the concern over the phenomenon has existed for a long time.

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Sejarah Awam, Pemikiran Dan Aktivisme Omar Mohd Hashim (Public History, Thought and Activism of Omar Mohd Hashim)

Ahmad Shatir

2023

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“…Many of these sentiments and ideas have also been rippling throughout the academy in recent years (see Attwood, 2007), with particular growth in the disciplines of anthropology, history and archaeology. For example, public history is underpinned by a desire for the practical application of history, working for and with the public, engaging the public while also attempting to draw them into the writing of history (see Kelley, 1978;Ryant, 1986;Recken, 1993;Scarpino, 1994;Champion, 2003). It is argued that 'what differentiates public history from academic history is its focus on audience' (Recken, 1993: 188), or, as Scarpino suggests, 'the primary difference between public and academic history is in the area of communication -in the audiences that we attempt to reach and in the products that we use to convey our scholarship to those audiences' (Scarpino, 1994).…”

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“…For example, public history is underpinned by a desire for the practical application of history, working for and with the public, engaging the public while also attempting to draw them into the writing of history (see Kelley, 1978;Ryant, 1986;Recken, 1993;Scarpino, 1994;Champion, 2003). It is argued that 'what differentiates public history from academic history is its focus on audience' (Recken, 1993: 188), or, as Scarpino suggests, 'the primary difference between public and academic history is in the area of communication -in the audiences that we attempt to reach and in the products that we use to convey our scholarship to those audiences' (Scarpino, 1994). 11 Such is the aspiration behind much public anthropology too, as epitomized by the www.savageminds.org, website and blog, and the recent provocative works by Lamphere (2003) and Eriksen (2006).…”

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Public geographies: taking stock

Fuller

2008

Progress in Human Geography

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and in the wake of the invitation to write a series of reports documenting the recent 'rise' of public geographies, I decided it would be interesting (if not potentially fruitful!) to consult a 'public' about their perceptions and understandings of 'public geographies'. So I sent email messages out into the ether asking for 'geographers' views upon, and any examples of, apparently 'public'-ly orientated work. 1 This request was fairly open and non-directive in that I genuinely wanted to see how members of lists such as the Critical Geography Forum, LeftGeog, and so on would respond -what they thought 'public geographies' were. The only real hint towards where I thought any discussion might go concerned the suggestion for respondents to think 'beyond (but including) journals, beyond the RAE, beyond the academy, beyond the UK/USA ...'. 2 Responses suggested that 'public geographies' are multi-faceted, multiple, plural, engaged, engaging, amorphous, unbounded, and uncertain. That much is certain. Many argued that 'public geographies' are part of the geographical furniture, a 'fi eld' maybe, but not just a 'fi eld', a tradition, what we all do, from 'where we are at' (of course). Many

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"Home is What You Can Take Away with You": K. Ross Toole and the Making of a Public Historian

Newell¹

2001

The Public Historian

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Common Ground: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Public History and the NCPH

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Sejarah Awam, Pemikiran Dan Aktivisme Omar Mohd Hashim (Public History, Thought and Activism of Omar Mohd Hashim)

Sejarah Awam, Pemikiran Dan Aktivisme Omar Mohd Hashim (Public History, Thought and Activism of Omar Mohd Hashim)

Public geographies: taking stock

"Home is What You Can Take Away with You": K. Ross Toole and the Making of a Public Historian

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