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- Title
Signing on: A Contractarian Understanding of How Public History is Used for Civic Inclusion.
- Authors
Abrahams, Daniel
- Abstract
What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understood as representing groups as a society's contracting parties. One particular value of the contractarian approach is that it helps to elucidate the phenomenon of "signing on," where a marginalized or oppressed group is offered membership in a society without the social order being meaningfully changed.
- Subjects
CONTRACTARIANISM (Ethics); CULTURE conflict; PUBLIC history; TACIT consent; SOCIAL marginality
- Publication
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 2023, Vol 26, Issue 5, p651
- ISSN
1386-2820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10677-023-10386-0