Abrahams, D. (2023) Signing on: a contractarian understanding of how public history is used for civic inclusion. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 26, pp. 651-665. (doi: 10.1007/s10677-023-10386-0)
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Abstract
What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understood as representing groups as a society’s contracting parties. One particular value of the contractarian approach is that it helps to elucidate the phenomenon of “signing on,” where a marginalized or oppressed group is offered membership in a society without the social order being meaningfully changed.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Additional Information: | This paper was completed with the help of postdoctoral funding from the Society for Applied Philosophy. |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Abrahams, Daniel |
Authors: | Abrahams, D. |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
Journal Name: | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 1386-2820 |
ISSN (Online): | 1572-8447 |
Published Online: | 28 March 2023 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors |
First Published: | First published in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 26:651-665 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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