Apresentação
| Autor | Sidnei J. Munhoz - Masuda Hajimu |
| Cargo | Universidade Estadual de Maringá - National University of Singapore |
| Páginas | 330-333 |
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Revista Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 23, n. 36, p.330-333, fev. 2017.
Apresentação
Presentation
Sidnei J. Munhoz*
(Universidade Estadual de Maringá-UEM)
Masuda Hajimu**
(National University of Singapore-NUS)
Organizers
A little more than a quarter of century has passed since the Cold War
ended. As the frenzy associated with it now appears odd, if not surreal, the nature
of inquiry cannot be the same. It’s time to change our ways of thinking about
the Cold War. To this end, we are co-editing a special issue of The Esboços,
one of the leading historical magazines in Brazil on “Many Cold Wars: Re-
conceptualizing the Post-WWII World.” The key questions we are examining
in this edition are as follows: How did local situations contribute to the shaping
and maintenance of the Cold War? In what ways did local people utilize, or
even take advantage of, Cold War narratives? How can we re-conceptualize
the Cold War? How have studies of the Cold War developed in the last two
decades, and what possible directions can we explore further? In short, what we
are trying to do is to question the standard narrative of the Cold War, shedding
that have often been obscured under the Cold War mantle. In doing so, we hope
to draw attention to many “Cold Wars,” seen from many different places and
diverse points of view, and fought for various purposes in many parts of the
world. Ultimately we hope to foster discussions that will question the standard
current in the history of the second half of the twentieth century.
In this special edition, scholars from different parts of the globe analyze
diverse aspects of the Cold War. Some articles look into localized or regional
Others examine various aspects of the global Cold War, exploring its historical
more than four decades.
*PhD in Economic History from the Universidade de São Paulo (1997). Associate Professor at
the Universidade Estadual de Maringá and the Postgraduate Program in History (PPH-UEM,
Maringá, Paraná, Brazil). Email: sidneimunhoz@pq.cnpq.br
** Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012. Assistant Professor in the Department of History
at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Email: hishm@nus.edu.sg
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