História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography

História da Historiografia da Amazônia

Lucilvana Ferreira Barros — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Este artigo é uma contribuição às historiografias brasileira e amazônica no que se refere ao cenário intelectual das primeiras décadas do século XX, propondo-se a analisar o papel do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Pará (IHGP) e do Instituto Geográfico e Histórico do Amazonas (IGHA) na construção de um campo historiográfico regional na Amazônia de 1917 a 1951. Investiga-se, a partir de revistas, capítulos e artigos, o processo de criação dos institutos históricos da Amazônia e concomitantemente o movimento de especialização disciplinar na região, contribuindo para a construção de um campo historiográfico amazônico. A leitura inicial dos documentos possibilitou compreender que o IHGP e IGHA foram criados frente ao contexto da crise da borracha e por influências republicanas, e os historiadores desses institutos institucionalizaram suas produções a partir de publicações nas revistas dessas instituições, bem como suas narrativas revelaram a preocupação com a construção de uma história das origens amazônicas em diálogo com a história do Brasil.

Historiografia, Identidade e Memória paraguaia

José Carlos dos Santos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

O artigo explora a obra "La tirania en el Paraguay" (1903) de Cecílio Báez, analisando como conceitos de Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari auxiliam na compreensão da tradição, memória e territorialidade. Báez, inserido no contexto dos Novecentos, critica as tiranias e propõe uma reconfiguração da identidade paraguaia através da educação. A análise dialoga com Brezzo, Centurión, Corbo e Cerna Villagra para compreender o ecossistema historiográfico platense. As conclusões destacam que a obra de Báez, ao reinterpretar o passado mediante uma ótica romântica e evolucionista, contribui para a construção de identidades paraguaia forjada pela ciência de seu tempo, que considerava a biologia, a moral e os sentidos históricos fundadores da nacionalidade.

O estabelecimento de um campo androcentrado para a história na França oitocentista

Isadora Tavares Maleval — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Nos últimos anos, a história da historiografia tem se proposto a repensar o estabelecimento do campo da história no século XIX problematizando suas marcações misóginas, características e sintomas do processo de disciplinarização. Este artigo é uma tentativa de contribuir com tal debate, tendo como foco a participação de uma “mulher de letras”, a feminista Louise Dauriat, no congresso de história organizado pelo Institut Historique de Paris, em 1837, e toda a querela que se estabeleceu a partir de então. Parte-se desse evento para compreender a rejeição sofrida por mulheres historiadoras ao longo de todo o oitocentos, sobretudo em relação à proibição de entrada em instituições que se propunham a estabelecer formatos de pesquisa e escrita históricas, e os problemas que tal ostracismo acarretou em termos práticos e também epistêmicos.

History of Historiography in the Amazon

Lucilvana Ferreira Barros — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article is a contribution to Brazilian and Amazonian historiographies regarding the intellectual scenario of the early 20th century, proposing to analyze the role of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Pará (IHGP) and the Geographical and Historical Institute of Amazonas (IGHA) in constructing a regional historiographic field in the Amazon, between 1917 and 1951. The process of creating the historical institutes of the Amazon and the concurrent movement of disciplinary specialization in the region, contributing to the construction of an Amazonian historiographic field, is investigated on journals, chapters, and articles. The initial reading allowed us to understand that the IHGP and IGHA were created in response to the rubber crisis and republican influences. The historians of these institutes institutionalized their productions by publishing in their journals, whose narratives revealed a concern with elaborating a history of Amazonian origins in dialogue with the history of Brazil.

Uma história reacionária?

Arthur Lima de Avila — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Este texto tem por objetivo ensaiar algumas hipóteses sobre a atual desdemocratização do passado nos Estados Unidos da Era Trump, a partir de um estudo de caso das leis anti-teoria crítica da raça aprovadas em uma série de estados pelo Partido Republicano e de sua ofensiva contra o julgamento honesto da história da escravidão e da violência racial na/da nação. O texto conclui, assim, que essa ofensiva faz parte de um processo maior de desdemocratização política que visa, dentre outras coisas, redefinir os elos da história com a pólis para legitimar a “saída da democracia” em curso no país.

A Reactionary History?

Arthur Lima de Avila — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The present text aims to propose a few hypotheses about the current de-democratization of the past in the United States of the Trump Age, from the standpoint of a case study of anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) laws approved by the Republican Party in a series of states and their assault on the honest judgment of the US history of slavery and racial violence. The text concludes that this assault is part of a larger process of political de-democratization that aims to, among other things, redefine the links between history and the polis in order to legitimize the “exit from democracy” currently underway in the country.

Twentieth Century Historical Methods in Sri Lanka and S.G. Perera’s

Josie Portz — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Twentieth-century pre-independence Sri Lanka saw the emergence of a new generation of historians that embraced “modern” approaches to writing history. As in other regions of South Asia, these histories were often in service of projects of identity formation. One historian from this group, S.G. Perera, made significant contributions towards knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka in particular, translating a significant amount from Portuguese historical materials. As part of a larger project investigating the relationship between historical practice and Catholic identity through the work of Sri Lankan Jesuit historian and priest S.G. Perera, this article focuses on Perera’s 1932 textbook, A History of Ceylon for Schools. Using qualitative coding methods, it observes the historical method and discourse used in Perera’s textbook to demonstrate how he worked within this modern tradition to rhetorically advance a Catholic, Sri Lankan nationalist perspective.

Beyond the Narrative

Eduardo Borges de Carvalho Nogueira — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article aims to present both an unconventional object of analysis (renegades) and an unusual historical-philosophical approach in studies concerning phenomena located in the State of India. A powerful portion of the Portuguese Empire, this region hosted the only inquisitorial court established overseas by the Portuguese Crown, which, through its investigative procedures generating valuable documentation, made it possible to access the life experiences of six men identified as apostates and renegades. Thus, drawing on concepts from Agamben’s philosophy (the sacred and the profane) and Foucault (transgression) to understand the phenomenon of renegation among subjects of the Catholic Crown in India between the 16th and 17th centuries, this work seeks to propose a historiographical perspective that goes beyond merely recounting past experiences, instead delving into them in greater depth.

The Battle for Jambudvīpa

Rathanasara Kaudagammana — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This study critically examines contemporary efforts to reinterpret Jambudvīpa by relocating key Buddhist sites from their historically recognised locations in India to Sri Lanka. Analysing the works of selected Sinhalese authors and organisations demonstrates how such claims, often framed as expressions of cultural pride or nationalist revival, contradict well-established archaeological, textual, and epigraphic evidence. Although presented in patriotic terms, these narratives lack scholarly credibility and advance ideological agendas aimed at reshaping national identity through religious history. The current study underscores the importance of rigorous, evidence-based historiography in countering pseudohistorical claims and promoting a balanced understanding of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist heritage.

Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Limits of History

Mirian Santos Ribeiro de Oliveira, Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0300

At the turn of the 21st century, South Asian historians Ranajit Guha (1923-2023) and Dipesh Chakrabarty (1948-) turned their attention to the discussion of the limits of history. In this paper, we analyze the limits of history and possible new approaches to historiography as understood by both historians, with a focus on the dialogue with the works by Rabindranath Tagore proposed by them. We argue that: 1) the validity of history as a concept or as discipline to deal with categories such as the Anthropocene or the planet does not depend on expanding the conceptual limits of history indefinitely, and could benefit from the methodological strategy of writing oneself into a history that is, to some extent, one’s own; 2) to do so, creativity, imagination, and empathy combine not to write another version of a single and all-encompassing history, but to recognize multiple worlds that articulate the human, the non-human, and the more-than-human.