Research Methods for Memory Studies

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 narratives
• Exploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage
• Attending to painful pasts and disrupted memory
• Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities
• Focusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory
• Analysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors