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My presentation at the New History Lab [http://www.newhistorylab.org/] on The Resilient Historian. This will also form the backbone of a workshop at the History HEA Subject Centre Conference.
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The Resilient Historian
Richard Hall ([email protected], @hallymk1)Richard Hall ([email protected], @hallymk1)
me: work• PhD = C18th political engagement/relationships to
power/role of community in civil and political action
• RA on Effective Early Learning Project
• Project Manager on HEFCE-funded technology-in Humanities project [Chic]
• E-Learning Co-ordinator @ DMU; History mentor; NTFS
me: voluntary
I am a Trustee of this: http://www.openchristmas.org/
I am a Governor here: http://www.forestlodge.leicester.sch.uk/
I am a disillusioned football fan: http://www.youtube.com/user/hallymk1
I twitter at: http://twitter.com/hallymk1
What does the act of being a historian in C21st civil society mean?
• Uncoerced• Shared• Boundaries• Diversity• Advocacy• Decision-making• Agency• Power
Word 1: context
• Resilience: thriving in spite of disruption
• Decision-making and agency
• Co-governance: towards social justice
• Core economy: what do we value?
Word 2: disruption• The economy
• The environment
• Power and control
• Energy
• Techno-determinism
Word 3: complexity
disruption and cultural context
Ravensbourne, 2008Hall, 2009; after Ravensbourne, 2008
Word 4: resilience
Rob Hopkins: Transition Culture
“the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks”
Systemic diversity, modularity, feedback
Word 5: action
we have a choice between reliance on government and its resources, and its approach to command and control, or developing an empowering day-to-day community resilience. Such resilience develops engagement, education, empowerment and encouragement
Political action or civil action? [DEMOS, nef]
Word 6: critical
• Gramsci on organic intellectuals: praxis in context
• Friere on critical pedagogy: social transformation and emancipation
• Habermas on legitimation, colonisation, value and participation in a “lifeworld”
• Barnett on the will to learn
Word 7: lessons
• Owenite co-operation
• Thompson’s legitimation of craft and class consciousness
• Cuban attempts at self-sufficiency
• Chavez and Venuzuela
• Holocaust denial
• The ideology of UKIP/BNP
Word 8: role
Tosh: context; risk-management; open agendas
Validity, reliability, plausibility, detachment
Managing complexity and difference of interpretation
“[History] lives through debate and controversy, and that very sense of controversy by analogy is what should be sustaining public debate more generally”
Some unused words
• Adaptation
• Awareness
• Dependence
• Revaluing
• Persistence
Towards a curriculum for resilience?
• Complexity and increasing uncertainty in the world demands resilience
• Integrated and social, rather than a subject-driven• Engaging with uncertainty through projects that involve
diverse voices in civil action• Discourses of power – co-governance?• Authentic partnerships, mentoring and enquiry, in
method, context, interpretation and action
• How does History enable C21st society to address disruption?
• How do historians support the development of ideas, decision-making and agency?
• Are we helping people to exist in authentic, socio-political spaces where switches may be turned off?
Resilience: what do we value?
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