Social Memory And Contemporaneity
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Author | : Gulʹnara Abduvasitovna Bakieva |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Kyrgyzstan |
ISBN | : 1565182340 |
Introduction to social mnemology: the scientific base ; The ontology of human memory ; The semantics of social memory ; The cognitive aspect of social memory ; The praxiological aspect of social memory ; Social memory as communication ; Social memory as a factor of modernization.
Author | : Jeffrey Andrew Barash |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2020-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022675846X |
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by discontinuity and dislocation. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of collective memory, he elaborates an important new philosophical basis for it, one that unveils profound limitations to its scope in relation to the historical past. Crucial to Barash’s analysis is a look at the radical transformations that symbolic configurations of collective memory have undergone with the rise of new technologies of mass communication. He provocatively demonstrates how such technologies’ capacity to simulate direct experience—especially via the image—actually makes more palpable collective memory’s limitations and the opacity of the historical past, which always lies beyond the reach of living memory. Thwarting skepticism, however, he eventually looks to literature—specifically writers such as Walter Scott, Marcel Proust, and W. G. Sebald—to uncover subtle nuances of temporality that might offer inconspicuous emblems of a past historical reality.
Author | : Antonella Pocecco |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2023-12-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3031419219 |
Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a transdisciplinary reflection on how the “presentification of the past” is never a simple reenactment but corresponds to the interaction between memory and cultural sensitiveness, present beliefs and needs, expectations, and forecasts for the future. It studies cultural (re)construction through collective stories, including academic debates, media narratives, collective mobilizations, state narratives of history, architectural reconstructions, and artistic expressions. It looks at how technological innovations have profoundly changed the practices of conservation and dissemination of collective memory, with particular reference to cultural digitization. Finally, it shows that the relevance and selection of events, the organization of connections and cross-references between past, present, and future, as well as the importance of diversified collective imaginaries are the keys to narrative constructions of memory that prove to be sensitive and decisive for its continuity and its intergenerational transmission. This interdisciplinary collection is for students and scholars of the social sciences, cultural studies, and the humanities interested in memory studies.
Author | : James W. Pennebaker |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 113480038X |
Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology. The core idea is that collective attitudes and behaviors are created and shared through common experiences and communication among a cohort of people. For example, people born between 1940 and 1960 are often defined via the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War. Their parents typically experienced lesser impact from these events. Papers about collective memory have appeared in the literature under different guises for the last hundred years. Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Jung's ideas on the collective unconscious, and McDougall's speculation on the group mind posited that identity and action could be viewed as resulting from the shared development of a culture. Halbwachs, a French social psychologist (1877-1945) who was the first to write in detail about the nature of collective memory, argued that basic memory processes were all social. That is, people remember only those events that they have repeated and elaborated in their discussions with others. In the last several years, there has been a resurgence of interest in this general topic because it addresses some fundamental questions about memory and social processes. Work closely related to these questions deals with the nature of autobiographical memory, traumatic experience and reconstructive memory, and social sharing of memories. This book brings together an international group of researchers who have been empirically studying some basic tenets of collective memory.
Author | : James Fentress |
Publisher | : Blackwell Pub |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631166184 |
The perspective, the philosophy and the psychology of remembering and the ways in which events are narrated are used to help work out how remembering and talking define societies in circumstances as diverse as medieval France and Iceland and contemporary Brazil and South Wales.
Author | : Gerd Sebald |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134586418 |
Public debates over the last two decades about social memories, about how as societies we remember, make sense of, and even imagine and invent, our collective pasts suggest that grand narratives have been abandoned for numerous little stories that contest the unified visions of the past. But, while focusing on the diversity of social remembering, these fragmentary accounts have also revealed the fault-lines within the theoretical terrain of memory studies. This critical anthology seeks to bridge these rifts and breaks within the contemporary theoretical landscape by addressing the pressing issues of social differentiation and forgetting as also the relatively unexplored futuristic aspect of social memories. Arranged in four thematic sections which focus on the concepts, temporalities, functions and contexts of social memories, this book includes essays that range across disciplines and present a variety of theoretical approaches, from phenomenological sociology and systems theory to biography research and post-colonialism.
Author | : Maurice Halbwachs |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1992-09 |
Genre | : 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 | : Reyes Mate |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 900445876X |
This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning.
Author | : Jacob Climo |
Publisher | : Altamira Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cognition and culture |
ISBN | : 9780759101784 |
An examination of social memory developed within communities from the perspective of anthropology. Many case studies from around the world.
Author | : Lindsey A. Freeman |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178238281X |
In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.