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This is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the 'social frameworks of memory'? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the 'memory of art'? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neurosciences? How do media shape our most personal memories? And can remembrance become globalized? Memory in Culture addresses these and many other questions about the socio-cultural dimensions of remembering, o

'Gedächtnis' und 'Erinnerung' sind Leitthemen in der Wissenschaft und im gesellschaftlich-politischen Diskurs. - Dieser Band bündelt die verschiedenen Theorien, Terminologien und Methoden aus der Forschung zum individuellen und kollektiven Gedächtnis und geht insbesondere den folgenden Fragen nach: Wie unterscheidet sich der Gedächtnisbegriff in Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft und Psychologie? Auf welche Weise kann die gedächtnisbildende Wirkung von Literatur und anderen Medien beschrieben und analysiert werden? Welche Folgen hat die 'transkulturelle und transnationale Wende' in der Gedächtnisforschung? - Ziel des Bandes ist es, das kaum mehr überschaubare Feld der interdisziplinären und internationalen Gedächtnisforschung zu kartieren und insbesondere kulturhistorisch interessierten Literaturwissenschaftler/innen nützliche Analysekategorien zur Verfügung zu stellen. - Für die dritte Auflage wurde der Band überarbeitet, erweitert und aktualisiert. p>

"Memory in Culture is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the "social frameworks of memory"? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the "memory of art"? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neurosciences? How do media shape our most personal memories? And can remembrance become globalized? Memory in Culture addresses these and many other questions about the socio-cultural dimensions of remembering, offeringa unique overview of the history and theory of memory studies. With the concise presentation of key concepts from history, sociology, political sciences, anthropology, psychology, literary, art and media studies, it documents current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way."--Pub. desc.

The volume presents theoretical frameworks, conceptual explications and concrete research perspectives in the subject area of 'Media of collective memory'. Representatives of various disciplines examine the manifestations, social functions, cultural differences and the historical development of the media of memory from the 17th century to the present day

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This article asks how memory studies might use the conceptual insights gained during its "third transcultural phase" for the challenges of its "fourth phase" – heralded in this Special Issue as a phase of research invested in questions about memory and the environment. It argues that memory is fundamentally "eco-logical", and that the relational dynamics explored in research on transcultural memory can enable an understanding of the more-than-human in collective memory. The article offers a brief introduction to the field of memory studies and its transcultural turn around 2010. It traces the emergence of transcultural studies as a field of enquiry and its roots in research on colonialism, postcolonialism, and cultural globalisation. It discusses new developments in memory studies and considers their transcultural and broader eco-logical dimensions. Finally, the article distinguishes between "the relationality of the remembered", "relational remembering", and "mnemonic relationality" as conceptual building blocks for eco-logical mnemohistories.

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Over the past decades, the field of memory studies has produced a wealth of research on explicit (conscious, commemorative, official) collective memory. But beyond this realm of the visible, there is a largely hidden world of 'implicit collective memory'. Elements of this invisible world include narrative schemata, stereotypes, patterns of framing, or world models, which are usually not explicitly known or addressed, but get passed on from generation to generation – in order to shape perception and action in new situations. Implicit collective memory is pervasive and powerful. But it is difficult to trace. It is therefore time to join forces for its systematic study: Drawing on approaches from psychology, sociology, communication studies, anthropology, media culture studies, literary studies, and mnemohistory, this article proposes some building blocks for a future transdisciplinary field of research on implicit collective memory.

Cultural memory studies addresses the question of how the "past" is created and recreated within sociocultural contexts. What is the place of "family"–and of family memories–in this burgeoning field? And how can the concept of memory be used as a tool in comparative family research? This article presents, first, the main notions of Maurice Halbwachs's theory of mémoire collective and asks how the sociologist places family within collective memory. Second, it discusses how the "new memory studies" of the 1980s and 1990s, which clearly showed a bias towards large-scale, often national memories, can be refocused through the lens of small-scale family memories. Third, it provides an overview of current research on the dynamics of remembering within families. It discusses how new approaches, which are based mostly on qualitative interviewing, have adopted innovative transgenerational, transnational, and media culture perspectives.

This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on'mediation' and 'remediation' as two fundamental aspects of media use, and on the dynamics between them.Key questions are:What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered? This book first appeared as a hardback volume in the De Gruyter series Media and Cultural Memory Studies. With the present book the original articles are reissued in an affordable paperback edition for graduate students and scholars in the field of Media and Memory Studies.

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The two authors – one from literary and cultural studies, the other a cognitive psychologist – explore how the
interdisciplinary perspective of Memory Studies can broaden and enrich current research efforts on flashbulb memories (FBMs). FBMs
are memories of the circumstances in which one learned of a public emotionally charged event, such as 9/11. Psychological research
on FBMs have focused on their cognitive properties, their putative accuracy and confidence. But we claim that when seen in the
broader interdisciplinary perspective of collective memory research, FBMs emerge as inextricably linked up with social, cultural,
and narrative dynamics. This article therefore locates FBMs at the intersection of individual and collective memory narratives.
Connecting research in cognitive psychology with cultural Memory Studies, we explore how flashbulb narratives bear on social
identity and how they might travel across national boundaries or across generations. We further discuss how FBMs are tied to
culture, aesthetics, and media history.