The editors of Korean Histories invite submissions responding to the theme of historiography as social practice in Korea in the broadest sense possible. We seek original research on Korean history from all periods and dealing with all subjects. We especially invite interdisciplinary or comparative submissions.
History is alive on the Korean peninsula. Contentious historical issues mobilise crowds, infuse political debates and rally netizens in fierce internet discussions. In popular media representations of history are recurrent features. In a society with a tradition of tracing legitimacy in historical precedent, social players have always felt a need to engage history for the sake of their cause. From professional historians to journalists, from novelists to activists, from politicians to religious leaders, from students to artists, all are (re-)producers of historiographies in and of Korea. Korean Histories seeks articles that engage these fields of historiographical production where different players interact and influence each other, creating a web of variations and diversions from "standard/authoritative" national history. Methodologically sound and empirically solid histories produced by professional historians based on "authoritative" sources coexist in such a landscape with more informal, intuitive, often fluid and highly contextual understandings of history, creating alternative Korean histories.
Korean Histories calls for submissions in any format and from any discipline engaging with these and related themes, regardless of period, subject or angle. We particularly welcome submissions which heavily rely on unconventional sources which may be published alongside the article in digital formats.
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