Poverty, Exclusion and Social Conflict in the Schoolbooks of Argentina during the First Peronist Period

Rodríguez, Miguel Somoza

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“…Studies of history textbooks from different countries have shown that textbooks’ narratives tend to circumvent the subject of social conflict and to avoid the depiction of violence (Apple : chapter 5, Cole ; Kumar ; Levstik ; Pathak ; Rodríguez ). However, it is my contention that the idea of a general avoidance needs to be nuanced and I suggest the following specification: when textbooks are elaborated primarily as nation‐building instruments, the historical narratives they contain shun the mention of social conflict within the nation as it is imagined .…”

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The Indian nation and selective amnesia: representing conflicts and violence in Indian history textbooks

Guichard

2012

Nations and Nationalism

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‘Unity is always obtained by means of brutality’ wrote Ernest Renan. Following this idea, this article investigates how social conflicts and violence are included or muted in national history. This is done by comparing the successive series of history textbooks used in India in the postindependence period. The historical narratives contained in the textbooks were influenced by different conceptions of the Indian nation, and these variations allow us to observe and better understand what is remembered or forgotten in the national narrative. We will see that conflicts and violence are referred to when they involve the nation against its ‘other’ but depictions of conflicts within the nation as it is imagined are avoided. Thus, certain violent episodes of the past find a place in the national historical narrative, yet violence in itself is never described.

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The Indian nation and selective amnesia: representing conflicts and violence in Indian history textbooks

Guichard

2012

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Poverty, Exclusion and Social Conflict in the Schoolbooks of Argentina during the First Peronist Period

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The Indian nation and selective amnesia: representing conflicts and violence in Indian history textbooks

The Indian nation and selective amnesia: representing conflicts and violence in Indian history textbooks

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