The distinction of history: on valuing the insularity of the historical past

Pihlainen, Kalle

doi:10.1080/13642529.2016.1208951

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“…The research of the historical past is focused on (re)constructing the assumed factual representation of events, situations and processes in the organization's past, whereas the research of the practical past is focused on unpacking the organizational stakeholders' interpretations and experiences of the past (e.g. memory, heritage, legacy and nostalgia) that are meaningful and useful in the organization's present (Pihlainen, 2016).…”

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Taking an eventful historic turn down the cultural memory lane

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Novičević

Mills

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Purpose This paper aims to find common ground between the supposed incompatible meta-historical positioning of positivism and post-positivism through a turn to mnemohistory in management and organizational history. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the idea of creative synthesis and positioning theory, the authors interject concepts from cultural memory studies in historical research on business and organizations to encourage management historians and organization theorists interested in joining the dialogue around how the past is known in the present. Using notions of “aftermath” and “events,” the idea of apositivism is written into historical organization studies to focus on understanding the complex ways of how past events translate into history. The critical historic turn event is raised as an exemplar of these ideas. Findings The overview of the emergence of the controversial historic turn in management and organization studies and the positioning of its adherents and antagonists revealed that there may be some commonality between the fragmented sense of the field. It was revealed that effective history vis-à-vis mnemohistory may hold the potential of a shared scholarly ethic. Originality/value The research builds on recent work that has sought to bring together the boundaries of management and organizational history. This paper explains how mnemohistory can offer a common position that is instrumental for theorizing the relationships among the past-infused constructs such as organizational heritage, legacy and identity.

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Taking an eventful historic turn down the cultural memory lane

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“…This serves as a reminder that multimediality (the simultaneous use of different media) and intermediality (the cross‐fertilisation between media) are not recent phenomena, but powerfully characterised the nineteenth‐century cultural memory (Rigney, , 50). Thus, the present paper questions the belief in (professional) history's superiority and insularity as a form of ‘past talk’ (Pihlainen, ), and seeks to demonstrate that a more transgressive—multi‐ and intermedial—approach to historical cultures can reveal significant factors that explain the persistence of certain pasts.…”

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The metrics and poetics of historical drama

Pikkanen

2019

Orbis Litterarum

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This article analyses four history plays, published between 1837 and 1869 in Sweden and Finland, and asks how the playwrights of the early nineteenth century represented the same premodern episode: the unsuccessful peasant uprising called the Club War (1596-1597). The focus is on the plays' dramatis personae, and the article will make comparable suggestions of the themes and topics each protagonist brings to the stage. The article studies literary factors that PIKKANEN

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“…attempts by empiricist guardians to identify a form of adjudication that is somehow elevated beyond the historian's 'discursive networks' (Pihlainen, 2016a, pp150-152). Whether labelled as 'mediating levels of reason' (Fulbrook, 2002), 'rational warrant' (Kuukkanen, 2015), 'determined inference' (Ahlskog, 2018), or simply 'common sense' and experience, the aim is to distinguish (and privilege) academic scholarship as less subjective, and therefore, more 'truth-full', than other forms of historying (Pihlainen, 2016b). However, although the desire for realist foundations is understandable, Alun Munslow (2014, p571) is correct to claim that historians are being deceptive and irresponsible when continuing to insist that they can be perspectival and yet somehow, through mechanisms of adjudicatory reasoning, remain nonpartisan.…”

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