ATA 507: HISTORIOGRAPHY FALL 2003 Nadir Özbek

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1 Monday 10:00-13:00 Office Hrs: Monday 14-17, and by appointment ATA 507: HISTORIOGRAPHY FALL 2003 Nadir Özbek Course Description: The seminar introduces students to the range of methodological, theoretical, and ideological frameworks that have guided historians today. It also provides a brief history of historical writing in the twentieth century with a focus on contemporary theoretical and epistemological issues. We will try to map major turning points in the field by examining social history, cultural and linguistic turn, postcolonial theory, postmodernity s histories, and culturalism and globalism as political discourses. In the seminar we aim to explore major differences in assumptions about the meaning and purposes of history. Requirements: Weekly Readings: This seminar is organized around common readings as the basis for weekly discussions. Optional readings are marked by *. Students are to prepare ten short précis (a freewheeling commentary of no more than 2 pages) on some aspect of the week s readings. Attendance and class participation are mandatory and counts 30% of the final grade. Oral Presentations: Each student will serve as discussion leaders for two of the 12 week s reading. It is the discussion leaders task to make extra readings (chosen by the students in consultation with the instructor) and set the stage for the discussion, organize it, guide it during class and offer a summary of the issues and debates that came out in the discussion. In their class presentations students are expected to make references to relevant agendas and discussion in Turkish academia. 15% Term Papers: Each student will write a term paper of 5000 words exploring certain aspect of history writing in Turkey. In the paper, students could either examine the works of a specific Turkish historian or the influence of a methodological/theoretical school on history writing in Turkey. Students could pursue their class-presentation themes as their paper topics. 30% Final Exam: 25 % I INTRODUCTION: II OVERVIEW: HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the Twentieth Century. Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press, III - SOCIAL HISTORY AND BRITISH MARXIST HISTORICAL TRADITION: Kaye, Harvey J. The British Marxist Historians. New York: St. Martin's Press, (pp.1-23; ) Eley, Geoff. "Edward Thompson, Social History and Political Culture: The Making of a Working-class Public, " In E.P.Thomopson, Critical Perspectives, edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith Mcclelland, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, Desan, Suzanne. "Crowds, Community, and Ritual in the Work of E.P.Thompson and Natalie Davis." In The New Cultural History, edited by Lynn Hunt, Berkeley: University of California Press, Scott, Joan Wallach. "Women in The Making of the English Working Class." In Gender and the Politics of History, New York: Columbia University Press, Wood, Ellen Meiksins. "Falling Through the Cracks: E.P.Thompson and the Debate on Base and Superstructure." In E.P.Thompson: Critical Perspectives, edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

2 Thompson, E.P. "Historical Logic." In The Essential E.P.Thompson, edited by Dorothy Thompson, New York: The New Press, Thompson, E.P. "Marxism and History." In The Essential E.P.Thompson, edited by Dorothy Thompson, New York: The New Press, Thompson, E.P. "History from Below." In The Essential E.P.Thompson, edited by Dorothy Thompson, New York: The New Press, Thompson, E.P. "Agenda for Radical History." In The Essential E.P.Thompson, edited by Dorothy Thompson, New York: The New Press, IV THE ANNALES SCHOOL: Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution, The Annales School (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990). Stoianovich, Traian. "Social History: Perspectives of the Annales Paradigm." Review 1, no. 3-4 (1978): Hobsbawm, E.J. "British History and the Annales: A Note." In On History, New York: The New Press, V SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE REVIVAL OF NARRATIVE: Lawrence Stone, The Past and the Present Revisited (New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987):3-44 & Eric Hobsbawm, "On the Revival of Narrative," in On History (New York: The New Press, 1997): Hobsbawm, Eric. "From Social History to the History of Society." In On History, New York: The New Press, Eley, Geoff. "Is All the World a Text? From Social History to the History of Society Two Decades Later." In The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences, edited by Terence J. McDonald, Ann Arbor: Michigan State University, Eley, Geoff, and Keith Nield. "Why Does Social History Ignore Politics?" Social History 5 (1980): Callinicos, Alex. "History as Narrative." In Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History, Durham: Duke University Press, VI LABOR HISTORY AND THE CULTURAL TURN: Berlanstein, Lenard R. "Introduction." In Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis, edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, Jones, Gareth Stedman. "Introduction." In Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, , New York: Cambridge University Press, Sewell, William H. "Toward a Post-materialist Rhetoric for Labor History." In Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis, edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal Princeton: Princeton University Press, (pp.3-13, ) Katznelson, Ira. "Working-Class Formation: Constructing Cases and Comparisons." In Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and United States, edited by Ira Katznelson and Aristide R. Zolberg, Princeton: Princeton University Press, VII BEYOND THE CULTURAL TURN: Dirlik, Arif. "Culturalism as Hegemonic Ideology and Liberating Practices." In The Postcolonial Aura, Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, Colorado: Westview Press, Hunt, Lynn. "Introduction: History, Culture, and Text." In The New Cultural History, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

3 Dirks, Nicholas B., Geoff Eley, and Sherry B. Ortner. "Introduction." In Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Bonnell, Victoria E., and Lynn Hunt. "Introduction." In Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press, Sewell, William H. "The Concept(s) of Culture." In Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, edited by Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, Berkeley: University of California Press, Biernacki, Richard. "Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History." In Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, edited by Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, Berkeley: University of California Press, Ortner, Sherry B. "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties." In Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, VIII HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: Calhoun, Craig. "The Rise and Domestication of Historical Sociology." In The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences, edited by Terence J. McDonald, Ann Arbor: Michigan State University, Smith, Dennis. The Rise of Historical Sociology. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, IX - THE HABERMAS OF HISTORIANS: Calhoun, Craig. "Introduction: Habermas and the Public Sphere." In Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun, Cambridge, Masschusetts: The MIT Press, Eley, Geoff. "Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century." In Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun, Cambridge, Masschusetts: The MIT Press, Mah, Harold. "Phantasies of the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Habermas of Historians." Journal of Modern History 72, no. 1 (2000): Brooke, John L. "Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Cultural Historians." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29, no. 1 (1998): Texier, Jacques. "Gramsci, Theoretician of the Superstructure." In Gramsci and Marxist Theory, edited by Mouffe Chantal, London: Routledge and Kagan Paul, Habermas, Jürgen. "Further Reflections on the Public Sphere." In Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun, Cambridge, Massachusetss: The MIT Press, Trentmann, Frank. "Introduction: Paradoxes of Civil Society." In Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History, edited by Frank Trentman, New York: Berghahn Books, Bobbio, Norberto. "Gramsci and the Conception of Civil Society." In Gramsci and Marxist Theory, edited by Chantal Mouffe, London, Boston and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, X THE FOUCAULT OF HISTORIANS: Rabinow, Paul. "Introduction." In The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, New York: Pantheon Books, Gutting, Garry. "Michel Foucault: A User's Manual." In The Cambridge Companian to Foucault, edited by Garry Gutting, New York: Cambridge University Press, Flyn, Thomas. "Foucault's Mapping of History." In The Cambridge Companian to Foucault, edited by Garry Gutting, New York: Cambridge University Press, Rabinow, Paul, ed. The Foucault Reader. New York: Pantheon Books, (pp ) O'Brian, Patricia. "Michel Foucault's History of Culture." In The New Cultural History, edited by Lynn Hunt, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

4 XI GENDER AND WOMEN S HISTORY Scott, Joan Wallach. "Women's History." In New Perspectives on Historical Writing, edited by Peter Burke, Cambridege: Polity Press, Scott, Joan Wallach. "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." In Gender and the Politics of History, New York: Columbia University Press, Shapiro, Ann-Louise. "History and Feminist Theory, or Talking Back to Beadle." History and Theory 31, no. 4 (1992): Kandiyoti, Deniz. "Contemporary Feminist Scholarship and Middle East Studies." In Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, edited by Deniz Kandiyoti, New York: Syracuse University Press, Frader, Laura L., and Sonya O. Rose. "Introduction: Gender and the Reconstruction of European Working-Class History." In Gender and Class in Modern Europe, edited by Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Boxer, Marilyn J., and Jean H. Quataert. "Women in the Era of the Interventionist State: 1890 to the Present." In Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present, edited by Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, XII - EDWARD SAID, ORIENTALISM AND BEYOND: Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman. "Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, New York: Columbia University Press, Porter, Dennis. "Orientalism and Its Problems." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, New York: Columbia University Press, Ahmad, Aijaz. "Orientalism and After." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, New York: Columbia University Press, Dirlik, Arif. "Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism." In The Postcolonial Aura, Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, Colorado: Westview, Abou-El-Haj, Rifa'at 'Ali. "Historiography in West Asian and North African Studies since Sa'id's Orientalism." In History after the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies, edited by Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, Kandiyoti, Deniz. "Post-Colonialism Compared: Potentials and Limitations in the Middle East and Central Asia." Intemational Joumal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): XIII MAPPING SUBALTERN STUDIES: Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "A Small History of Subaltern Studies." In Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies. With a Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, K. Sivaramakrishnan, "Situating the Subaltern: History and Anthropology in the Subaltern Studies Project, Journal of Historical Sociology 8, December, 1994: Sarkar, Samit. "The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies." In Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi, London: Verso, Cooper, Frederick. "Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History." In History After the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies, edited by Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts?" Representations, no. 37 (1992): Bahl, Vinay. "Situating and Rethinking Subaltern Studies for Writing Working-Class History." In History After the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies, edited by Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography." In Selected Subaltern Studies, edited by Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, Guha, Ranajit. "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India." In Maping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi, 1-7. London: Verso,

5 Deringil, Selim. "'They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery': The Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate." Comparative Studies in Society and History 45, no. 2 (2003): XIV: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND ITS CRITIQUE: Dirlik, Arif. "Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Perspective of History." In The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, Colorado: Westview Press, Dirlik, Arif. "The Postclonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism." In The Postcolonial Aura, Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, Colorado: Westview, Dirlik, Arif. "The Global in the Local." In The Postcolonial Aura, edited by Arif Dirlik, Colorado: Westview Press, Dirlik, Arif. "Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism." In The Postcolonial Aura, Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, Colorado: Westview, XV GLOBALISM S HISTORIES; A NEW DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY: Zizek, Slavoj. "Multiculturalism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism." New Left Review, no. 225 (1997): Dirlik, Arif. "Modernity as History: Post-Revolutionary China, Globalization and the Question of Modernity." Social History 27, no. 1 (2002): Dirlik, Arif. "Rethinking Colonialism: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and the Nation." Interviews 4, no. 3 (2002): İslamoğlu, Huri. "Modernities Compared: State Transformations and Constitutions of Property in the Qing and Ottoman Empires." Journal of Early Modern History 5, no. 4 (2001): İslamoğlu, Huri, and Peter C. Perdue. "Introduction." Journal of Early Modern History 5, no. 4 (2001): Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar. "On Alternative Modernities." In Alternative Modernities, North Carolina: Duke University Press, Göle, Nilüfer. "Snapshots of Islamic Modernities." Daedalus 129, no. 1 (2000): XVI WALTER BENJAMIN AND A NEW CONCEPTION OF TIME/HISTORY: Jürgen Habermas, The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies, in Jürgen Habermas, The New Conservatism, Cultural Criticism and the Historian s Debate, Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1989, pp Harootunian, Harry D. "The Benjamin Effect: Modernism, Repetition, and the Path to Different Cultural Imaginaries." In Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History, edited by Michael P. Steinberg, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Harootunian, Harry. "The Unavoidable "Actuality" of Everyday Life." In History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life, New York: Columbia University Press, Harootunian, Harry D. "In the Tiger's Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters Post-Mao China (Review essay on Streetlife China by Michael Dutton)." Postcolonial Studies 3, no. 3 (2000). Harootunian, Harry. "All the Names of History." In Overcome by Modernity, ix-xxxii. New York: Princeton University Press, Lindroos, Kia. "Scattering Community: Benjamin on Experience, Narrative and History." Paper presented at the Political Studies Association-UK 50th Annual Conference, London Arendt, Hannah. "Introduction: Walter Benjamin: " In Illuminations: Walter Benjamin, Essays and Reflections, New York: Schocken Books, Benjamin, Walter. "The Storyteller." In Illuminations: Walter Benjamin Essays and Reflections, edited by Hannah Arendt, New York: Schocken Books, Benjamin, Walter. "Theses on the Philosophy of History." In Illuminations: Walter Benjamin Essays and Reflections, edited by Hannah Arendt, New York: Schocken Books, 1969.