Yearbook of Politics and History

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The yearbook for politics and history (JPG) has been published by Franz Steiner Verlag in Stuttgart since 2010 . It is an interdisciplinary academic periodical on the topics of remembrance culture and history politics .

Origin and content profile

The technical background is the new field of systematic analysis of the political and cultural handling of history that has been forming in German and international political and historical studies since the 1980s . This interdisciplinary research area of ​​memory studies, which has been reflected in a large number of academic studies since the 1990s, also led to the establishment of the working group for politics and history in the German Association for Political Science in 1996 . The JPG emerged from this working group. It was founded by political scientists Claudia Fröhlich, Horst-Alfred Heinrich and Harald Schmid .

In the editorial of the first volume, the editors refer to the term "political memory" coined by Max Weber to describe the thematic horizon of the yearbook. It also says: "Politics needs and uses history - for justification and legitimation, self-portrayal and argumentative discussion as well as for one's own temporal orientation. History is not only a breeding ground for public cultures of remembrance, but also an outstanding resource for political actors." Regarding the approach of the yearbook, the editors write that it is "the first periodical in the German scientific field that is specifically dedicated to the diverse, often interdisciplinary studies on the research fields of history politics and culture of remembrance". It sees itself as a scientific forum for the "widely ramified and often specialized research on the political handling of history - from legal-historical studies on criminal law" dealing with the past and political science-contemporary history work on history and past politics to the cultural turn shaped contributions to the complex of remembrance up to studies of the factor history in processes of the transition to democracy " .

Each volume includes the following headings:

  • main emphasis
  • Studio & Gallery (from vol. 3)
  • Current forum
  • Find
  • research paper

The articles in the yearbook appear in German or English.

Editing and editing of the JPG lie with Claudia Fröhlich and Harald Schmid. Horst-Alfred Heinrich was co-editor of Volumes 1 and 2, and Birgit Schwelling co-edited volumes 4 and 5.

Members of the scientific advisory board of the yearbook are:

Main topics

Vol. 1 (2010): Historical Justice

Vol. 2 (2011): Extremism and History Politics

Vol. 3 (2012): Do democracies need history?

Vol. 4 (2013): Exhibiting History

Vol. 5 (2014): 25 years of European change

Vol. 6 (2015): Politics of history and cultures of remembrance globally

Vol. 7 (2016–2019): Virtual cultures of remembrance

reception

The journal "Neue Politische Literatur" described the JPG as "an interesting, innovative and, above all, courageous project". The "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft" wrote: "The editors (...) have succeeded in providing impressive evidence that a new journal is definitely Need may exist. " "Francia-Recensio" judged: "The yearbook impresses with its multi-perspective layout".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the working group. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ Claudia Fröhlich, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Harald Schmid: Editorial . In: Yearbook for Politics and History . tape 1 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, p. 5–10, here p. 5 f .
  3. ↑ Michaela Bachem-Rehm: Review of vol. 1 of the JPG . In: New Political Literature . tape 56 , 2011, p. 500 .
  4. ↑ Christian Dietrich: Review of vol. 2 of the JPG . In: Journal of History . tape 60 , 2012, p. 1045 .
  5. ↑ Nadina Jenke: Review of Vol. 4 of the JPG . In: Francia-Recension . No. 1 , 2017.