Memory and the Management of Change
Repossessing the Past
1st Edition
Published on 9. November 2017
IX, 228 pages
978-3-319-58744-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject and key scales of remembering in vernacular milieus. The book explores the connections of memory and remembering with transformations in intimate relationships, migration and spatial mobilities, loss and bereavement involving loved ones or those with whom close affinities are felt, resulting in a volume that helps fill the gap in memory studies caused by lack of sustained ethnographic work. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the processes and practices of remembering in everyday life, it demonstrates how the mnemonic imagination is central to the management of change and transition, and how its cross-temporal interanimations of past, present and future are fostered and facilitated by the visual and sonic resources of photography and recorded music.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
IX, 228 p.
File size
2,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-58744-8 (9783319587448)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
11/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Persons
Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK, and Associate Editor of the international journal Media, Culture and Society .
Michael Pickering is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies.Content
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Managing Change and Transition.- Chapter 3. Intimate Relationships.- Chapter 4. Places of Habitation and Belonging.- Chapter 5. Grief and Mourning.-
