The Pentateuch as (/and) Social Memory of “Israel” in the Late Persian Period

Author(s):  
Ehud Ben Zvi

This essay explores the heuristic potential of Social Memory approach for the study of the Pentateuch. It focus on eight different “windows” that each sheds light on what an approach informed by memory studies may contribute to current discussions on the Pentateuch as a collection and the types of issues, questions or “angles” within existing questions that such an approach may raise. These windows focus on matters such as the Pentateuch as shared foundational memory of not one but two distinctive ‘groups’, beginnings and endings, main sites of memory, villains, multiplicity of voices, and intertwining of laws and narratives.

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rowlinson ◽  
Charles Booth ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Agnes Delahaye ◽  
Stephen Procter

Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. But this model has been rejected by psychologists because it overlooks the distinctly human subjective experience of remembering, i.e. episodic memory. OMS also fails to take account of the specific social and historical contexts of organizational memory. The methodological individualism that is prevalent in OMS makes it difficult to engage with the rapidly expanding sociological and historical literature in social memory studies, where a more social constructionist approach to ‘collective memory’ is generally favoured. However, for its part social memory studies derived from Maurice Halbwachs neglects organizations, focusing primarily on the nation as a mnemonic community. From a critical perspective organizations can be seen as appropriating society’s memory through corporate sites of memory such as historical visitor attractions and corporate museums. There is scope for a sociological and historical reorientation within OMS, drawing on social memory studies and focusing on corporate sites of memory, such as The Henry Ford museum complex, as well as the mnemonic role of founders and beginnings in organizations. Taking a social constructionist, collectivist approach to social remembering in organizations allows connections to be made between memory and other research programmes, such as organizational culture studies.


2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Tumarkin

This article concerns itself with exploring some of the ways in which we can move beyond the ‘cognitive bias’ within social memory studies. A key obstacle to engaging with the kinds of manifestations of remembering that cannot be reduced to intentional and conscious articulations or representations of the mediated past is a deeply entrenched opposition between representational and non-representational (or declarative and non-declarative) mnemonic practices. It strikes me that this opposition is, at least partially, a product of early thinking on memory and trauma, in which affect and representation were opposed to each other, and the notion of non-representational memory was subsumed in the idea of the traumatic. In this article, I intend to try out the idea of ‘more-than-representational’ coined in the field of human geography to reach out to mnemonic processes and practices that operate on various levels not fully reducible to cognition, with the products of these processes exceeding representational form (rather than being completely outside or beyond it).


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Milena Dragićević-Šešić ◽  
Milena Stefanović

Organizational memory studies (OMS) frame memory in a managerial mode, treating it as a data storage, limiting the scope from wider field of social memory studies. There is a lack of understanding about how the process of institutional forgetting works and how some memories stay a part of oral narratives and communicative social memory while they are omitted from the official memory represented by the official documents and events of remembering. Inspired by Paul Connerton’s article on the typology of forgetting we explore his typology in selected case studies of three public theaters located in Belgrade, focusing on remembering policy and practices investigating if a type of forgetting typical for a state/society/nation level is possible to be applied in the context of a cultural organization. We agree with Wessel and Moulds that developing common language and terminology would be important and beneficial for cross disciplinary dialogue. In this sense, the study shows how the typology of forgetting in societies can be applied and developed in the organizational memory studies and cultural management. The focus of the research is the dynamics of remembering and forgetting explored through analysis of the interaction between changing context, official institutional memories, and social communicative memories. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-770
Author(s):  
Marcos Palacios

Este ensaio tem por objetivo estabelecer um breve recorrido cronológico e destacar uma divisão em fases dos Estudos de Memória, sugerindo-se que, presentemente, há algo de novo a ser confrontado no âmbito dessa área de pesquisa, exigindo uma inflexão no paradigma ora vigente, ou ao menos seu alargamento. Inicialmente traça-se um breve resumo das diferentes fases de constituição dos Estudos de Memória, enquanto um campo acadêmico específico e multidisciplinar, com ênfase em suas escalas de abrangência: local, nacional e global. Partindo-se de tal caracterização, uma quarta fase é sugerida, com a adoção de uma nova escala de construção da memória coletiva, com base no conceito de Antropoceno, cuja introdução traz consigo a necessidade de se ressituar os Estudos de Memória, agora em escala planetária. O texto está organizado em três partes: Antecedências, Incidências e Sequências. Palavras-chave: Estudos de Memória; Memória Coletiva; Memória Social; Antropoceno; Ecologia.     ABSTRACT This essay aims to establish a brief chronological overview and highlight distinctive phases of Memory Studies, suggesting that presently there is something new to be confronted within this field of research, requiring an inflection in the current paradigm or at least its enlargement. Initially, a brief summary of the different phases of constitution of Memory Studies as a specific and multidisciplinary academic field is presented, with emphasis on its scales of coverage: local, national and global. Starting from such a characterization, a fourth phase is suggested, with the adoption of a new scale of collective memory construction, based on the concept of Anthropocene, whose introduction brings with it the need to reposition Memory Studies, now on a planetary scale. The text is organized in three parts: antecedents, incidents and sequences.   KEYWORDS: Memory Studies; Collective Memory; Social Memory; Anthropocene; Ecology.     RESUMEN Este ensayo tiene por objetivo establecer un breve recorrido cronológico y destacar una división en fases de los Estudios de Memoria, sugiriendo que, actualmente, hay algo nuevo que se enfrenta en el ámbito de esta área de investigación, exigiendo una inflexión en el paradigma actual, o al menos su ampliación. Inicialmente se traza un breve resumen de las diferentes fases de constitución de los Estudios de Memoria, como un campo académico específico y multidisciplinario, con énfasis en sus escalas de alcance: local, nacional y global. A partir de tal caracterización, una cuarta fase es sugerida, con la adopción de una nueva escala de construcción de la memoria colectiva, con base en el concepto de Antropoceno, cuya introducción trae consigo la necesidad de resituar los Estudios de Memoria, ahora a escala planetario. El texto está organizado en tres partes: Antecedentes, Incidencias y Secuencias.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Estudios de memoria; Memoria Colectiva; Memoria Social; Antropoceno; Ecología


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Author(s):  
Norman Saadi Nikro

The thematic of “place” has since the work of Pierre Nora accrued much conceptual currency in social and cultural memory studies. Nora had defined place as lieu, formal remants of a vanishing notion of memory as social practice. Suggesting an alternative notion of place as milieu, the discussion focuses on social memory as proliferations of present-pasts.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Dakhin

Reflecting some contemporary trends social environment, the author underlines some of them which have increased the level of memory studies discussion. The paper reflects a trend of the postmodern pluralism field, where the social memory is defined as an object for free constructing. The alternative philosophical approach demands to rethink this pluralism by the decision of methodological choice towards memo philosophy which climes the idea of fundamental mission of social memory for social history and future development.


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