FUTURE PASTS GROUP
University of Stavanger, Norway
Research Group for the Study of the Uses of the Past in Education, Culture and Society
The present research program at the University of Stavanger aims to address the relationship between various forms of uses, representations and understandings of the past articulated by individuals or groups and the preconditions these representations shape for the future. The many ways the past is used and interpreted affect our social and cultural life but also educational and cultural policies and practices, understandings and constructions of collective identities, integration, migration and memory politics…
“History can be the raw material for nationalistic or ethnic or fundamentalist ideologies, as poppies are the raw material for opium addiction” – E.J. Hobsbawm