ABSTRACT
This issue of Rethinking History, like the forthcoming one, 'Futures for the past', has been a long time in the making. Originally, the idea was to bring together a selection of authors who had participated in the inaugural conference of the International Network for Theory of History (INTH), held in Ghent in the summer of 2013. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the case of historians' involvement in the construction of the Estonian state in the 1980s and 1990s. It elucidates the privileged standing of history by offering up alternative political and artistic framings that lead audiences to reconsider traditional practices and to question the logics of history as they have come to know it. The book focuses on outlining the connections between narration, experience and action, in order to show how history inevitably functions as a form of practical knowledge.
