“Ordinary” conceptions and “vernacular” vocabulary in the mediation of history

Most case-studies analyzing the relationship to the past are grounded in a qualitative or ethnographic approach with clearly identified institutions (political party, family, school…) and inscribed in a period of time, or, inversely, punctual interactional situations with heritage institutions (museums, memorials, historical productions). They have taken as their principal variable transmission: inter-generational, top-down, or from those in the know to those who do not.
Breaking from these exclusive approaches, this research project wishes to reintegrate the analysis of the mediation of history and of processes of evoking the past with classic sociological questionings. Class membership, religious beliefs, migratory and social trajectories, education level, gender, mobilization context, etc. are thus tackled in this study. The objective is to question the mediation of history prior to the confrontation of collections and outside the interaction with heritage institutions. These works can also be put into perspective with reception studies of collections developed in the framework of the cluster, to measure the specificity of the mediation of history that plays in the interactions between individuals, collections, and heritage institutions.
Project Leader
Marie-Claire LAVABRE , Director of the ISP , ISP
Internal cluster partners
- Institute for Social Sciences of Politics (ISP) - UMR 7220
- La contemporaine | library, archives, museum of contemporary societies
- Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC) - UMR 7186
Associated partners
Hanyang University, Seoul
http://www.hanyang.ac.kr/web/eng
Duration
4 yearsSylvain ANTICHAN
Title:
Dr. Political sciences
Institution:
Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, UMR 7220
Takes part in the project:
Study of social appropriations of historical exhibitions
Email:
sylvain.antichan@yahoo.fr
Visites scolaires, histoire et citoyenneté
Publisher:
La Documentation française
ISBN:
978-2-11-010193-8
URL / DOI:
Site de la Documentation française
La commémoration en pratique : les lieux sociaux du rapport au passé
Publisher:
BDIC
ISBN:
0769-3206
URL / DOI:
Lire l'article en ligne
Faire l’expérience de l’histoire ? Retour sur les appropriations sociales des expositions du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale
Publisher:
BDIC
ISBN:
0769-3206
URL / DOI:
Lire l'article en ligne
Un terrain en train de se faire. Éléments sur le (possible) paradoxe de la transmission
URL / DOI:
Lire le billet de blog
Quand les publics s'approprient l'histoire - Working Paper
URL / DOI:
Published on the blog MEMU
Quand les publics s'approprient l'histoire - Working Paper
URL / DOI:
Publié sur le blog MEMU
Marie-Claire LAVABRE
Title:
Senior Research Fellow, CNRS
Position:
Director of the ISP
Institution:
ISP
Leader of the project:
“Ordinary” conceptions and “vernacular” vocabulary in the mediation of history
,
Memory and public uses of the past