The Global and its Paradoxes: the Imagined Construction of a Historiographic Field

• Autor(a) principal: Espada Lima, Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Esboços (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/2175-7976.2019.e66255

This article comments on the piece written by Jurandir Malerba published in the current issue ofEsboços: histórias em contextos globais, in which the author discusses the paradoxes of the global history of historiography. The article is based on the concept of “imagined community” proposed by Benedict Anderson, reflecting on the possibilities and limits to imagine a global history, as well as the collective experience of the community of historians who start to think about themselves through this same category. In dialogue with Malerba, Anderson, Jeremy Adelman, Eric Auerbach, Partha Chaterjee and others, this paper ends by posing the question who is authorized to “imagine” global history and, therefore, to control its narrative. The conclusion is that the answer to this question is inseparable from the matrix of inequalities and asymmetries that are reproduced in the current context of manufacturing a globalized world.