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    • Can It Be a Gamechanger? Interrogating the Prospects of Decolonization Through Public History in Japan 

      Tozawa, Emi (E. Tozawa, Can It Be a Gamechanger? Interrogating the Prospects of Decolonization Through Public History in Japan, «Public History Review», 1 (2024), pp. 45-52, 2024)
      As a historical settler and colonizer in Asia, yet a state not colonized by European countries, Japan and its colonial history seem to have been left out from the debates on public history as a decolonizing process, due ...
    • Decolonizing Through Public History – Introduction 

      Cauvin, Thomas <University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg> (T. Cauvin, Decolonizing Through Public History – Introduction, «Public History Review», 1 (2024), pp. 1-4, 2024)
      Decolonization is the subject of an abundant literature, both as a historical event and as a contemporary process. In relations with the past, debates have risen about issues such as colonial monuments, museum collections, ...
    • Family History Collaborators in Conversation 

      Barnwell, Ashley <University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia>; King, Laura <University of Leeds, Leeds, England> (A. Barnwell, L. King, Family History Collaborators in Conversation, «International Public History», 2, 2019, n. 2, pp. 1-3, 2019)
      Ashley Barnwell and Laura King converse about their collaborations with family historians in Australia and England. They reveal the potential uses of collaboration when challenging understandings of ‘the family’, decolonizing ...
    • Public History and Emancipatory Politics in Transition: From the Anti-Apartheid Struggle to Democracy in South Africa Noor Nieftagodien EMAIL logo 

      Nieftagodien, Noor <University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Johannesburg, South Africa> (N. Nieftagodien, Public History and Emancipatory Politics in Transition: From the Anti-Apartheid Struggle to Democracy in South Africa, «Public History Review», 1 (2024), pp. 5-15, 2024)
      The expansion of public history in the context of the ‘decolonial turn’ has generated conversations about the potential productive and mutually constitutive relations between the two. While recognizing that there is no ...
    • Some Reflections on Public History in Canada Today 

      Dean, David <Carleton University, Canada>; Walsh, John C. <Carleton University, Canada> (D. Dean, J. C. Walsh, Some Reflections on Public History in Canada Today, «International Public History», 2, 2019, n. 2, pp. 1-3, 2019)
      This article offers a reflection on the state of public history in Canada today. The authors focus on four particularly significant and related developments: the growth of the field within universities and colleges; the ways ...
    • The Haunting Past of Colonialism in Belgium the Death of Patrice Lumumba in Public Memory 

      Verbeeck, Georgi <Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium> (G. Verbeeck, The Haunting Past of Colonialism in Belgium the Death of Patrice Lumumba in Public Memory, «International Public History», vol. 4, 2021, n. 2, pp. 89-98, 2021)
      The remembrance of the death of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of the Congo in Belgium is indicative of a fundamental transformation in the latter country’s public memory of its former role as a colonizing ...