Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7
Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories
Georg Grote
; Eurac Bozen
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APA 6th Edition
Grote, G. (2021). Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories. Vjesnik istarskog arhiva, 28 ((2021)), 147-159. https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7
MLA 8th Edition
Grote, Georg. "Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories." Vjesnik istarskog arhiva, vol. 28, no. (2021), 2021, pp. 147-159. https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Grote, Georg. "Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories." Vjesnik istarskog arhiva 28, no. (2021) (2021): 147-159. https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7
Harvard
Grote, G. (2021). 'Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories', Vjesnik istarskog arhiva, 28((2021)), pp. 147-159. https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7
Vancouver
Grote G. Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories. Vjesnik istarskog arhiva [Internet]. 2021 [cited 2024 December 01];28((2021)):147-159. https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7
IEEE
G. Grote, "Endeavour & Responsibility of the Historian – Creating an Archive of Ego Documents in Regions of Highly Contested Memories", Vjesnik istarskog arhiva, vol.28, no. (2021), pp. 147-159, 2021. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.31726/via.28.7
Abstract
The Irish folklore collection is a national social archive and has been an important focal point and a stabilizing influence on the development of the Irish collective identity after the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. This historic blueprint has been adapted and modified to fulfill a similar role in the emerging collective identity of South Tyrol in Northern Italy, where a challenging minority issue was pacified through far-reaching concessions and a regional political and cultural autonomy. This contribution outlines that establishing a social archive in this area of contested memories and conflicting interpretations of the history of the 20th century poses many challenges to the historian, ranging from the respect for individual recollections to the adoption of internationally accepted interpretations of the Fascist past in Germany and Italy. It concludes that despite these challenges, a social archive might be the appropriate instrument to foster reconciliation and mutual understanding.
Keywords
Historiography; ‘nation’-building; collective identity; archive creation; collective memory; history from below; ego documents
Hrčak ID:
267508
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/267508
Publication date:
17.12.2021.
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croatian
italian
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