Interdisciplinariedad y redes sociales en el siglo XXI: Debatiendo con Peter Burke el presente, pasado y futuro de la Ciencia Histórica

Abstract

: This article presents a debate with the renowned British researcher Peter Burke about the challenges that historians have had to face in contemporary conjunctures, addressing the transformation of the historian’s profession in society during the last decades. In addition to examining the commitment to building a closer relationship between all social sciences and history, this debate revolves around the impact of technological and communicational change on its sources, and the configuration of a critical consciousness to address them. One of the most prominent voices in cultural history speaks of the difficulties in classifying contemporary historiographic production, of the challenges of teaching history today, of the legacy and validity of some of the most recognized historiographic trends of the 20th century, as well as of the limitations and main practical problems that new generations of historians must face.