Lackenby, Nicholas;
(2025)
History's sides: How people morally inscribe themselves into fractured times.
Anthropology Today
, 41
(4)
pp. 3-5.
10.1111/1467-8322.70009.
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Abstract
his article considers how people think about history in terms of its ‘sides’. When people claim to be on the ‘right side’ – or denounce others as being on the ‘wrong side’ – of history, they simultaneously evoke a (culturally specific) concept of ‘history’ and morally evaluate its passage. This article thinks about this process with reference to the interplay between what Michael Lambek identifies as ‘historical consciousness’ and ‘historical conscience’. In a global sociopolitical context which is increasingly fragmenting and where the old order is challenged, the evocation of history's sides is a means by which people find fixity and morally inscribe themselves into time.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | History's sides: How people morally inscribe themselves into fractured times |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8322.70009 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70009 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Anthropology Today published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Anthropological Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212275 |
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