Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history
| dc.contributor.author | Phillips, Howard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-27T07:46:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-27T07:46:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-12-24T08:20:36Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This session of the colloquium began where the preceding one had left off, with the lead-in speaker, Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas, arguing that if ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ were meaningful concepts for historical understanding, so too was ‘nation’. For him, national history was both meaningful and vital in the current era of globalisation, when global history was being touted as the only paradigm within which seriously to understand modern processes and events. Indeed, he believed that national history was an essential defence – even means of survival – against the dominant brand of global history in the contemporary world, which in his view amounted to ‘a narrative of western power and its expansion, …[which sought to turn] the national history of one great power [the USA] into the metanarrative of global history … by eras[ing] the experiences of so-called local identities, sweeping the dust of the ethnic under the carpet of the national, and the national itself under the table of the universal’. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470409464803 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Phillips, H. (2004). Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history. <i>South African Historical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20825 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Phillips, Howard "Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history." <i>South African Historical Journal</i> (2004) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20825 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Phillips, H. (2004). Writing and teaching national history in africa in an era of global history : Centenary of the UCT history department. South African Historical Journal, 50, p.215-217. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-2473 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Phillips, Howard AB - This session of the colloquium began where the preceding one had left off, with the lead-in speaker, Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas, arguing that if ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ were meaningful concepts for historical understanding, so too was ‘nation’. For him, national history was both meaningful and vital in the current era of globalisation, when global history was being touted as the only paradigm within which seriously to understand modern processes and events. Indeed, he believed that national history was an essential defence – even means of survival – against the dominant brand of global history in the contemporary world, which in his view amounted to ‘a narrative of western power and its expansion, …[which sought to turn] the national history of one great power [the USA] into the metanarrative of global history … by eras[ing] the experiences of so-called local identities, sweeping the dust of the ethnic under the carpet of the national, and the national itself under the table of the universal’. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Historical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 SM - 0258-2473 T1 - Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history TI - Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20825 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20825 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Phillips H. Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history. South African Historical Journal. 2004; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20825. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Historical Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Historical Journal | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshj20/current | |
| dc.title | Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |