Znovu k 11. 9. 2001: Jak se „dělá historie“ v politickém diskurzu

• Authors: Jiří Nekvapil , Ivan Leudar

Title variants

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9/11 Revisited: ‘Doing History’ in Political Discourse

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Drawing on ethnomethodology, this article addresses what participants do as ‘practical historians’ – how they use and produce history in and through their activities. Specifi cally, it studies how historical contingencies are built into antagonistic political talk and to what effect. To that end, the authors revisit three of their own papers, all of which analysed how the 9/11 attacks in the United States were represented. The authors reanalyse the texts focusing on how the protagonists in the confl ict (Bush, Blair and bin Laden) ‘did history’. The analysis reveals two related methods of ‘practicing history’: one is to situate contemporary events relative to historical antecedents and so provide them with history-contingent meanings; the other is to constrain the historical understanding of the events in future.

Keywords

EN

political discourse; historicity; use of history; practical historian; ethnomethodology; reanalysis of discourse; 9/11; Bush; Blair; bin Laden

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 619–642

Contributors

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Jiří Nekvapil

• Filozofi cká fakulta UK, nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Ivan Leudar

• School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, UK