ABSTRACT
To articulate the obscured truths and bring to the fore the temporal and spatial contingency of imagining the form of the relationship between history teaching and identity formation, this chapter employs concepts from international political theory, especially those of realism, liberalism and constructionism. It makes an attempt to locate the emergence and dominance of the imaginary of traditional history teaching and the making of homo nationalis within the interstate system. The chapter discusses major historical and structural changes in international relations that resulted in the creation of new networks and technologies of knowledge building within which the imaginary of new history and homo interculturalis has gradually developed – and through which it has been diffusing across the world. It examines some of the possibilities of interaction between the two antagonistic imaginaries. History education is held to have an important role to play in the making of the intercultural subject.
