1st Edition
History in a Post-Truth World Theory and Praxis
Foreword
Henry Rousso
1. Who Controls the Past?
Marius Gudonis and Benjamin T. Jones
Part 1: What Is Post-Truth?: Theoretical Considerations
2. Post-Truth as Crisis of Trust and Critical Source Assessment
Jędrzej Czerep
3. Post-Truth and Consequences
Adam Chmielewski
4. The Post-Truth Condition and Social Distribution of Knowledge: On Some Dilemmas with Post-Truth Uses
Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski
Part 2: Case Studies of Post-Truth
5. Pinkersonian Post-Truth: History, Ideology, and Postmodernism
Adrian Wesołowski
6. Denying the Stolen Generations: What Happens to Indigenous History in a Post-Truth World?
Benjamin T. Jones
7. The Oldest Post-Truth?: The Rise of Antisemitism in America and Beyond
Gerald J. Steinacher
8. Post-Truth and the Construction of Representations of the Past: The Theory of the Two Demons and the Case of Argentina
Daniel Feierstein
9. The Post-Truth Environment: Indian Politics and History Education
Basabi Khan Banerjee and Georg Stöber
10. Business as Usual: Feminist History in a Post-Truth World
Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson
11. "I’m Not Even Making That Up": Myths About Moriori and Denials of Indigeneity in New Zealand
André Brett
Part 3: The Truth About "Post-Truth": Evaluation and Response
12. Trump, Fascism, and Historians in the Post-Truth Era
Ben Mercer
13. Decolonising Historiography in South Africa: Reflecting on "Post-Truth" Relevance 25 Years Since Mandela
June Bam-Hutchison
14. Museums as Critical Spaces for Alterity in a Post-Truth World
Andrea Gallardo Ocampo and Miguel A. Híjar-Chiapa
15. Academic Activism in the Age of Post-Truth: How Do Genocide Scholars Respond to Denial?
Marius Gudonis
16. Essence of Post-Truth History and Ways to Respond
Marius Gudonis and Benjamin T. Jones
Biography
Marius Gudonis is a PhD candidate at Collegium Civitas University, Poland.
Benjamin T. Jones is a lecturer in history at Central Queensland University and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Studies Institute.
