Suchergebnisse

Dedication -- Preface: The Feminist Mnemologist -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- chapter 1: Introduction -- Book Rationale -- Book Scope -- Research Methods -- Book Content -- Part I: Concepts -- Part II: Domains -- Part III: Actions -- Key Terms -- Part I: Concepts -- chapter 2: Gender, Memory and Technologies -- Memory Technologies in Early Feminism -- Memory Technologies in 20th-Century Feminism -- Gender and Memory Technologies in Memory Studies -- New Paradigms in Memory Studies -- Notes -- chapter 3: Globital Memory -- Movement and Fixity

This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital cultures are changing the gender of memory and memories of gender through a lively set of original case studies in the 'globital age'. The study analyses imaginaries of gender, memory and technology in utopian literature; it provides an examination of how foetal scanning alters the gendered memories of the human being. Reading draws on original research on women's use of mobile phones to capture and share personal and family memories as well as analysing changes to journalism and gendered memories, focusing on the mobile witnessing of terrorism and state terror. The book concludes with a critical reflection on Anna Reading's work as a playwright mobilising feminist memories as part of a digital theatre project 'Phenomenal Women with Fuel Theatre' which created live and digital memories of inspirational women. The book explains in depth Reading's original concept of digitised and globalised memory - 'globital memory' - and suggests how the scholar may use mobile methodologies to understand how memories travel and change in the globital age.

Introduction / Anna Reading and Tamar Katriel -- Gandhi's salt march: paradoxes and tensions in the memory of nonviolent struggle in India / Ornit Shani -- A modest reminder: performing suffragette memory in a British feminist webzine / Red Chidgey -- Krieg dem Kriege: the Anti-War Museum in Berlin as a multilayered site of memory / Irit Dekel and Tamar atriel -- Film as cultural memory: the struggle for repatriation and restitution of cultural property in central Australia / Hart Cohen -- Remember the Russell Tribunal? / David Torell -- Peace and unity: imagining Europe in the founding fathers' house museums / Bernhard Forchtner and Christoffer Kolvraa -- Singing for my life: memory, nonviolence and the songs of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp / Anna Reading -- Who owns a movement's memory? the case of Poland's solidarity / Susan C. Pearce -- Documenting South Asian American struggles against racism: community archives in a post-9/11 world / Michelle Caswell -- The wall must fall: memory activism, documentary filmmaking, and the second Intifada / Tamar Katriel and Yifat Gutman -- Remembering to play/playing to remember: transmedial and intramedial memory in games of nonviolent struggle / Colin B Harvey

Abstract
Rewilding memory provides the basis for a new theoretical and practical agenda to bring greater neurological human diversity and ecological diversity into research and teaching on memory, mind and media. The article develops the concept of 'more-than-human-memory' to refer to the co-construction of memories between diverse humans and the environment. The article draws on research that examined a transmedia corpus of 40 neurodivergent memory works (life writing, memoirs, autobiographical art, blogs and videos). It found that memory works by autistic people consistently remember the self in terms of the co-composition of human memories through and with the media and matter of environmental memories. The article explores the ways in which some autistic people's memory works decentre human memories through deep ecological memory, conversations with vibrant objects and memories of animating energies. The research suggests that such memories 'rewild' or eco-neuroqueer the human-centred and normatively biased assumptions of memory, mind and media that underpin psychology, philosophy of mind, media and memory studies. It contributes a new angle to research that addresses the dialogical relationship between what Barnier and Hoskins (2018) have termed 'memory in the mind' and 'memory in the wild'. It also goes beyond extended mind theory that understands human memory as enhanced and extended through non-biological tools and suggests the significance to memory of the more-than-human living world. Importantly, it highlights connections between autistic more-than-human-memories and the conceptualisation and practices associated with the more-than-human in research shaped by eco-psychology, Indigenous Studies and Environmental Humanities.

This article intervenes into research on cultural and digital memory by arguing for the significance of the materiality of memory and its underlying political economy. Although cultural and digital memories are characterized as contested, multiple and often involving interplay and conflict between different power dynamics, what remains missing is an understanding of the material basis of digital, globally connective memory or what is termed here 'globital memory'. In work on memory which addresses social and mobile technologies there is an emphasis on the transition from collective to 'connective memory' and the ways in which social media offer possibilities for the articulation of marginalized memories, as well as new forms of archiving. While current concern is signalling a return to the question of the significance of 'mass media' in relation to social and mobile media and digital memory, this work does not yet address the political economy of 'globital' memory which includes the underlying materiality and technical infrastructure of social media. Using the conceptual metaphor of mining memories, the article will attend to what lies beneath the 'digital skin' of memories on social networks such as YouTube. I address the socioeconomic and technical infrastructures that enable the capture, circulation and storage of data that then become the raw material of globital memory.

Historical events and social memories are increasingly articulated and accessed through the means of interactive digital technologies. Particularly in the context of history museums, interactive digital media kiosks and web-sites are used to enhance and in some cases constitute a key way in which the past is conveyed to the public. Yet in what ways are new technologies in such contexts constructing a different relationship to the past and how are visitors themselves using these technologies? This article uses empirical research from the Museum of Tolerance in the US to critically situate and theorize the uses of new technologies in relation to socially inherited memories of the Holocaust.

Cultural and media policies were a key part of the mechanisms of atrocity in the Holocaust. This article looks at the context and implications of some of these policies and argues that, while racism and ethnic exclusion are fundamental to our understanding of the Holocaust and primary to the way in which cultural policies were formulated and used, it is also significant that these were refracted through particular constructions and articulations based on gender.

This study explores how memory forms may be understood through an economic lens tracing how the labour of remembering adds value to and (trans)forms memories. The study focuses on embodied memories and imaginaries of migration and belonging and the ways in which these are (trans)formed through mobile and social media witnessing into a collective living archive and into objectified memory forms that include art works and digital artefacts situated within global mnemonic commodity chains. Empirically, the article draws on an arts-based collaborative research project, 'Moving Hearts' carried out with the UK Migration Museum in 2016–2018 that examined embodied, artistic, and institutional memories and imaginaries of migration. Theoretically, the article builds on the growing body of research in memory studies on the economies of memory, bringing together a political economy approach to memory and work within participatory arts to provide insights into how memory forms may be understood through mnemonic labour and mnemonic capital. Specifically, it shows how the mnemonic labour of participants making, carrying and walking with clay hearts transforms memories of migration and belonging into new kinds of mnemonic capital.

Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles. The book highlights the cultural forgetting and memory of Gandhi's Salt March, the suffragette struggle in Britain, the Russell Tribunal, 'House Museums' in Europe, the anti-nuclear campaign at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Poland's Solidarity movement, cultural repatriation and indigenous Australians, the Anti-War Museum in Berlin, a South Asian community archive, peaceful alternatives in video games and Palestinian activism against The Wall. The chapters explore how memories of nonviolent struggles are mobilized through digital archiving, documentary film-making, video-gaming, and on-the-ground practices such as music, memorial museums, and the building of monuments. By foregrounding an alternative line of memory work whose goal is to commemorate nonviolent struggles in contemporary local, national and global memory cultures, the book opens up new pathways of human hope and agency to the study of cultural memory.