Author : James V. Wertsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521008808
This book draws on numerous fields to provide a comprehensive review of collective memory.
Author : James V. Wertsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0197551467
How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can underwrite noble aspirations, but the volume focuses largely on how it contributes to the negative tendencies of nationalism that give rise to confrontation. Narratives are taken as units of analysis for examining the psychological and cultural dimensions of remembering particular events and also for understanding the schematic codes and mental habits that underlie national memory more generally. In this account, narratives are approached as tools that shape the views of members of national communities to such an extent that they serve as co-authors of what people say and think. Drawing on illustrations from Russia, China, Georgia, the United States, and elsewhere, the book examines how "narrative templates," "narrative dialogism," and "privileged event narratives" shape nations' views of themselves and their relations with others. The volume concludes with a list of ways to manage the disputes that pit one national community against another.
Author : Ludmila Isurin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107175852
Isurin presents a case study of Russian collective memory as it is constructed by producers and consumed by people.
Author : Pascal Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 052176078X
This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising the role of memory processes in the construction of self-identity, of shared cultural norms and concepts, and of historical awareness. Although the results are fairly new and the techniques suitably modern, the vision itself is of course related to the work of such precursors as Frederic Bartlett and Aleksandr Luria, who in very different ways represent the starting point of a serious psychology of human culture.
Author : David Middleton
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 1990-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780803982352
Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and forgetting as socially constituted activities. The starting point is a conceptualization of remembering and forgetting as forms of social action. Individual memories cannot be understood as `internal mental processes' which occur independently of the interpretive and communicative practices which characterize a particular society or culture. Individuals `read', account for and negotiate their memories within the pragmatics of social life. Contributions also explore the collective processes through which communities' social memories are created, sustained and transformed
Author : Maurice Halbwachs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1992-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226115962
How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? This volume, the first comprehensive English language translation of Maurice Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.
Author : Nicole Fox
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0299332209
Nicole Fox investigates the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors decades after massacres have ended. She examines how memorializations can both heal and hurt, especially when they fail to represent all genders, ethnicities, and classes of those afflicted.
Author : Iwona Irwin-Zarecka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351519255
What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies succeed? Should victims of the Holocaust be celebrated as heroes or as martyrs? These questions have a great deal in common, yet they are typically asked separately by people working in distinct research areas in different disciplines. Frames of Remembrance shares ideas and concerns across such divides.
Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0295746238
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization. Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.
Author : Rita Benn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1947951513
How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity? Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with the aftermath of their parents’ inconceivable experiences during the Holocaust. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain.
