Deconstructing history

Munslow, Alun

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“…Nonetheless, a historical narrative differs from fiction because it is obligated to rest on evidence, including the critical assessment of other historians’ interpretations (Mink, ). Narrative approaches to the study of history continue to be popular today and represent an increasingly prominent way of understanding the role of historians as interpreters of the past (Munslow, ; Roberts, ).…”

Section: Competing Conceptualizations Of History: From Science To Stomentioning

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“…In particular, there is a paucity of guidance for narrative historians who define history as a narrative construction or a form of literature, where historical reality is discursively produced (Munslow, ). From this perspective, the past is not discovered but is, instead, a text that has been created by historical researchers, each of whom ‘produce a historical account instead of the historical account’ (Coraiola, Foster and Suddaby, , p. 211).…”

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Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques

Gill

Roulet

2017

British J of Management

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Organizational scholars increasingly recognize the value of employing historical research. Yet the fields of history and organization studies struggle to reconcile. In this paper, the authors contend that a closer connection between these two fields is possible if organizational historians bring their role in the construction of historical narratives to the fore and open up their research decisions for discussion. They provide guidelines to support this endeavor, drawing on four criteria that are prevalent within interpretive organization studies for developing the trustworthiness of research: credibility; confirmability; dependability; and transferability. In contrast to the traditional use of trustworthiness criteria to evaluate the quality of research, the authors advance the criteria to encourage historians to generate more transparent narratives. Such transparency allows others to comprehend and comment on the construction of narratives, thereby building trust and understanding. Each criterion is converted into a set of guiding principles to enhance the trustworthiness of historical research, pairing each principle with a practical technique gleaned from a range of disciplines within the social sciences to provide practical guidance.

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Section: Competing Conceptualizations Of History: From Science To Stomentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques

Gill

Roulet

2017

British J of Management

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“…11 The proposal of a new hypothesis, step (1) above, is called constructionism. The "discovery" of new laws, step (3), is called reconstructionism.…”

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Histophysics: A New Discipline

Lam

2002

Mod. Phys. Lett. B

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History is the most important discipline of study. The system investigated in history is a many-body system consisting of biological material bodies, Homo sapiens, and hence can be studied scientifically. The unique role physicists can play in advancing the science of human history is presented. We will discuss the methods of study in history; worldviews; modeling history as a complex, dynamical system; predicting the future and retrodicting the past; and artificial history. In particular, active walk is shown to provide the foundation for a new worldview, and found to be widely applicable in modeling history, as illustrated by three examples from economic, evolutionary and social histories, respectively.

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“…The above has demonstrated what attention to Foucault's work—to his version of performative apophasis, his alertness to narrative prosthesis, and their imbrication within the formation of a mad‐reason nexus in the midst of writing history—opens. It lends to education a unique approach for reconsidering what Munslow (1997) calls ‘the vehicle of our reports’, the conditions of their possibility, and the dependencies of discourse. In terms of contributions to the field it generates, firstly, broader consideration of scholarly efforts to transgress noncrossable borders that lead not to silence but to new modes of engagement.…”

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Torsions Within the Same Anxiety? Entification, apophasis, history

Baker

2008

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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In Anglophone educational research in the United States, the name Foucault has been more pointedly celebrated in some subfields such as curriculum studies relative to its more noticeable censorship in subfields such as history of education. This paper illustrates how such differential epistemological politics might be accounted for through reapproaching the challenges to historiography that Histoire de la Folie (Madness and Civilization) raised. Through the formalist lens of performative apophasis, and with attention to the dependencies of discourse that characterize narrative prosthesis, this paper re-engages the least referenced of Foucault's major histories in the educational field to bring into noticeability other 'conditions of possibility'-ones that explicate how an apophatic turn might account for divergent reactions to less familiar philosophies of history and/or to 'alternative' approaches to documents through which history is now being narrated and critiqued in education and beyond.

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Deconstructing history

Cited by 135 publications

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Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques

Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques

Histophysics: A New Discipline

Torsions Within the Same Anxiety? Entification, apophasis, history

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