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Time and Space in Time and Space
Mapping the Conceptual History of Mental Maps and Historical Consciousness
in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author:
Janne Holmén
Janne Holmén
Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University and Uppsala University, Sweden janne.homen@edu.uu.se
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Abstract
Mental maps and historical consciousness, which describe the spatial and temporal dimensions of worldviews, are not, as commonly stated, twentieth century concepts. Historical consciousness was coined simultaneously by several German scholars in the mid-1800s. Mental maps, used in English since the 1820s, had a prominent role in US geography education from the 1880s. Since then, the concepts have traveled between practical-technical, educational, and academic vocabularies, cross fertilizing fields and contributing to the formation of new research questions. However, when these initial periods of reflection gave way to empirical investigation, strict intra-disciplinary definitions of the concepts have strengthened disciplinary borders by excluding the interpretations of the same concepts in other fields.
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Janne Holmén is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, and associate professor of the history of education at the Department of Education, Uppsala University. Email: janne.holmen@edu.uu.se