
Research Methods for Memory Studies
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 31. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-7486-4595-4 (ISBN)
Description
The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field
This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.
Key Features:
Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narrativesExploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritageAttending to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicitiesFocusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memoryAnalysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors
This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.
Key Features:
Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narrativesExploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritageAttending to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicitiesFocusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memoryAnalysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4595-4 (9780748645954)
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Persons
Dr Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Her research interests include the mediation of memory, time and everyday life. As well as recent articles on memory and methodology, generational transmission and painful pasts, she has published the edited collection Time, Media and Modernity (2012) and has co-authored The Mnemonic Imagination (2012) with Michael Pickering. She is assistant editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society. Professor Michael Pickering teaches in the Social Sciences at Loughborough University. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010). Rhythms of Labour: The History of Music at Work in Britain, co-written with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson, will appear in May 2013, published by Cambridge University Press.
Editor
Senior LecturerLoughborough University
Professor of Social SciencesLoughborough University
Content
Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section One: Memory and Identity; 1. Autobiographical Memory - Robyn Fivush; 2. Oral History and Remembering - Joanna Bornat; Section Two: Qualities of Memory; 3. Experience and Memory - Steve Brown and Paula Reavey; 4. Between Official and Vernacular Remembering - Sabina Mihelj; Section Three: Media and Memory; 5. Televised Remembering - Ann Gray; 6. Vernacular Remembering - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section Four: Locations of Memory; 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods - Paul Basu; 8. Ethnicity and Memory - Amanda Kearney; Section Five: Disturbed Memory; 9. Painful Pasts - Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering; 10. Disrupted Childhoods - Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden; Section Six: Confessing and Witnessing; 11. Apologia - Cristean Tileaga; 12. Testimony - Jovan Byford; Conclusion - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Further Reading; Bibliography.