Chana Teeger

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Distancing the Past | Columbia University Press Shortlisted, 2025 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological AssociationShortlisted, 2025 MSA First Book Award, Memory Studies AssociationFinalist, 2... | CUP

Huge congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social‬ for winning the Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Human Rights Section with her book, Distancing the Past 🎉✨

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excerpt from Chana Teeger's article, (Not) feeling the past: boredom as a racialised emotion.

👏Congratulations to @cteeger.bsky.social, whose‬ article "(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion" has won the Recent Contributions Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section of the @asanews.bsky.social‬ 🏆

Read the article here ➡️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Thank you @hannahcastner.bsky.social for this generous review of DISTANCING THE PAST 📚

Thank you @bhbradlow.bsky.social for this incredibly generous review of my book!

SA’s history education masks apartheid’s true impact, LSE scholar says Professor says the way in which the past is taught distances it from young people’s everyday lives

Thank you to Kabelo Khumalo at Business Day for discussing research from my new book, DISTANCING THE PAST, which shows how history lessons are teaching young South Africans to ignore racial inequality in the present:

www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Dr Chana Teeger has written for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the history of apartheid is taught in South African schools⤵️

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Why history lessons are so threatening to those with power If students are taught that the racism of the past is done and dusted, then it follows that there is nothing left to do – no policies left to enact. But if the playing field today is not equal – if…

On the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog, Chana Teeger
@lsemethodology.bsky.social looks at how the history of
#apartheid is taught in #SouthAfrican schools, arguing that framing it as firmly in the past ignores its persistent legacies of racism and unequal power relations.

If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...

📚 Why are history lessons so threatening to those with power? Read my blog post, out now in the #LSEInequalitiesBlog @lsemethodology.bsky.social