Together with colleagues from different parts of the world, cultural historians Joris van Eijnatten, Ed Jonker, Willemijn Ruberg and Joes Segal have founded a new digital, open-access journal for the cultural history of modernity. The journal’s aim is to stimulate research and lively academic exchange, and to offer a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. In their mission statement, the editors conceive of modernityas the world in which we live, yet at the same time, regard modernity as a contested concept and a serious practical effort. The concepts and theories that deal with modernity are not free-floating intellectual artefacts but confront real situations and actual dilemmas. Therefore, the journal invites authors to participate in a reflexive conversation on the cultural history of modernity.
The first issue can now be found online at www.history-culture-modernity.org, and includes an opening article by the editors which provides an overview of recent debates relating to “modernity”.
Table of Contents:
Editorial Joris van Eijnatten, Ed Jonker, Willemijn Ruberg & Joes Segal
Shaping the Discourse on Modernity Joris van Eijnatten, Ed Jonker, Willemijn Ruberg & Joes Segal
Modernity and its Discontents: Western Catholic Pioneers of the Hindu-Christian Dialogue Enrico Beltramini
Campsites as Utopias? A Socio-Spatial Reading of the Post-War Holiday Camp in Belgium, 1950s to 1970s Janina Gosseye & Hilde Heynen
From Professionalisation to Global Ambitions: the History of History Writing at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Matthias Middell