'I don't even trust now what I read in history books': family history and the future of co-production and collaboration
'I don't even trust now what I read in history books': family history and the future of co-production and collaboration
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“我现在甚至不相信我在历史书上读到的内容”：家族历史以及联合制作和合作的未来
DOI：
10.1080/13642529.2023.2228629
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发表时间：
2023
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0.6
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Evans T
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Evans T
家庭历史学家是一个庞大而又常常被忽视的历史研究群体。他们对自己的实践有着强烈的意识，以及一套完善的方法论和研究仪器。他们大多独自工作，或与其他家庭成员合作，并与公共图书馆、档案馆和当地历史学会有联系。他们是一个位于学院之外的社区，经常被主流边缘化。他们因天真和业余而被解雇，并因寻求与祖先前世的情感联系而受到嘲笑。家庭历史学家的研究实践和兴趣通常被定义为不科学，不批判，情绪化，对学术界或其他任何人都没有价值。我们在这里质疑这些假设，并展示家族史如何使大量的人能够历史地思考，并产生独特的历史理解形式，挑战学术垄断的历史知识。本文考虑了家庭历史学家的工作实践，并阐述了家庭历史工作为社会参与研究提供模式的一些关键方法。
Family historians are a large and often neglected group of historical researchers. They have a strongly articulated sense of their practice, and a well-developed set of methodologies and research apparatuses. They mostly work on their own, or in partnership with other family members, and are associated with public libraries, archives and local historical societies. They are a community who are situated outside the academy, often marginalised by the mainstream. They have been dismissed for their naiveté and amateurism and are ridiculed for seeking emotional connections with the past lives of their forebears. The research practice and interests of family historians are often defined as unscientific, uncritical, emotional and of little value to the academy or anyone else bar their own family group. We interrogate these assumptions here and show how family history is enabling a huge number of people to think historically and to produce distinctive forms of historical understanding that challenge academic monopoly of historical knowledge. The essay considers the working practices of family historians and elaborates some of the key ways that family history work provides models for socially engaged research.