| Memory and Methodology Contributor(s): Radstone, Susannah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1859732968 ISBN-13: 9781859732960 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: The increasing centrality of memory to work being done across a wide range of disciplines has brought along with it vexed questions and far-reaching changes in the way knowledge is pursued. This timely collection provides a forum for demonstrating how various disciplines are addressing these concerns. Is an historian's approach to memory similar to that of theorists in media or cultural studies, or are their understandings in fact contradictory? Which methods of analysis are most appropriate in which contexts? What are the relations between individual and social memory? Why should we study memory and how can it enrich other research? What does its study bring to our understanding of subjectivity, identity and power? In addressing these knotty questions, Memory and Methodology showcases a rich and diverse range of research on memory. Leading scholars in anthropology, history, film and cultural studies address topics including places of memory; trauma, film and popular memory; memory texts; collaborative memory work and technologies of memory. This timely and interdisciplinary study represents a major contribution to our understanding of how memory is shaping contemporary academic research and of how people shape and are shaped by memory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Methodology - Self-help | Personal Growth - Memory Improvement |
| Dewey: 153.12 |
| LCCN: 00708837 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (0.92 lbs) 238 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The increasing centrality of memory to work being done across a wide range of disciplines has brought along with it vexed questions and far-reaching changes in the way knowledge is pursued. This timely collection provides a forum for demonstrating how various disciplines are addressing these concerns. Is an historian's approach to memory similar to that of theorists in media or cultural studies, or are their understandings in fact contradictory? Which methods of analysis are most appropriate in which contexts? What are the relations between individual and social memory? Why should we study memory and how can it enrich other research? What does its study bring to our understanding of subjectivity, identity and power? In addressing these knotty questions, Memory and Methodology showcases a rich and diverse range of research on memory. Leading scholars in anthropology, history, film and cultural studies address topics including places of memory; trauma, film and popular memory; memory texts; collaborative memory work and technologies of memory. This timely and interdisciplinary study represents a major contribution to our understanding of how memory is shaping contemporary academic research and of how people shape and are shaped by memory. |
Contributor Bio(s): Radstone, Susannah: - SUSANNAH RADSTONE is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. Her recent publications include two companion volumes Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory and Regimes of Memory. Her forthcoming books include Public Emotion; On Memory and Confession: The Sexual Politics of Time, and Mapping Memory. |