Indisciplining historiography: from the historical past to the practical past, from crisis to critique

• Main Author: Arthur Lima de Avila
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 2018-01-01
• Series: Revista Maracanan
• Subjects: Passado Prático; Passado Histórico; Historiografia; Disciplina
• Online Access: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/maracanan/article/view/31185

This text’s aim is to try to provoke some reflections about and for contemporary historiography from the standpoint of Hayden White’s idea of the “practical past” and his criticism of the disciplined “historical past”. Through this, I ponder about some of the theoretical and political possibilities and consequences for a historiography anchored in a practical vision of the past and openly critical of some of the disciplinary traditions and injunctions often naturalized by historians, especially in a context where they seemingly seem to be in crisis, given the changes in the conjuncture that made them possible in the first place.