Hurra, en ny tidsskrift

En ny tidskrift har sett ljuset, och en med det underbara namnet History of the Present: A journal of critical history:

History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural, or culturally necessary; and to publish work that calls into question certainties about the relationship between past and present that are taken for granted by the majority of practicing historians.

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The journal's objective is to provide an intellectual space for historical scholarship that is explicitly political and theoretical, but not in the usual sense of those words. The point is to link the present to the past not as its inevitable outcome, but as the contingent product of changes in relationships of power and in the ideas through which such relationships are conceived. We are less interested in articles that concentrate on the affairs of governments or politicians—wherein power is so often a given—than in those that analyze the operations of power through a more finely-grained conceptual frame. We seek neither work that approaches power from a position of simple moralism, as a denunciation of past injustices or as an exposure of the ways the powerful have oppressed or victimized their "others." Nor will we look for work that seeks to right the balance of past mistreatment, showing, for example, that those thought to be without power—women or homosexuals or colonial subjects or workers—indeed had agency. Rather, we will look for articles that analyze power relationships in their complexity: how are they established and justified? How has history been used to legitimize or challenge them? 

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