Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey K. Olick ◽  
Joyce Robbins
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


2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Tarkowska

In Poland, research into collective memory has a long tradition and clear cultural perspective. The author’s aim is to show that this research tradition, which is deeply associated with the legacy of the Durkheimian school, was very strong in Poland in both the prewar and postwar periods, especially in the work of Stefan Czarnowski, the only Polish member of the school. In this perspective, social memory is closely connected with culture and time. In the first part of the paper, the author explains why the relations between social memory, culture, and social time are important for evaluating the Polish research tradition. The second part is dedicated to the works of Stefan Czarnowski, who started the cultural stream in Polish memory studies many years ago. The third part presents the idea of social time, and the relations between the sociology of time and memory studies in Polish sociology. The specificity of Polish studies on collective memory is little known today, especially to foreign researchers, but the tradition is worth remembering.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Menachem Klein

Jerusalem played an important role in the establishment of collective memory studies by Maurice Halbwachs in the early twentieth century. Recent studies in this field draw attention to the contribution of a variety of agents to building, maintaining, and challenging collective memory realms. Following suit, this article deals with the methods that agents of an alternative collective memory for Jerusalem use to challenge the Israeli hegemonic narrative. Before reviewing their activities in East and West Jerusalem and their resources and impact, I summarize the hegemonic narrative as presented in four memory realms. Special attention is given to both sides’ use of the Internet as a means of overcoming the physical limitations of memory realms.


Author(s):  
Philip F. Esler

This chapter surveys the development of social-scientific readings of the Johannine Gospel and Letters in roughly chronological order from the introduction of the sociology of knowledge and sectarianism to Johannine scholarship by Wayne Meeks in 1972, and the application of sectarian perspectives, especially influenced by Bryan Wilson’s typology of sectarianism, in the 1980s and 1990s. Sociolinguistic insights into anti-society and anti-language to understand the Johannine Sondersprache were also introduced in the 1980s together with Mary Douglas’ notions of grid and group and notions of Mediterranean culture. Applications of sectarianism and Mediterranean culture continued into the 2000s, but were accompnaied by new interests in identity, including the tension between Judean ethnic and Christ-movement identities in the Fourth Gospel, and in collective memory studies. All of these approaches continue to have a role in understanding the Johannine corpus.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Krysowski ◽  
Natalia Szerszeń

The book, which shows the works of Juliusz Słowacki from the perspective of cultural memory, belongs to memory studies. It aims to follow the relations between memory, reminiscence and commemoration, as well as to describe the relations and interdependencies between individual and collective memory, memory, biography and history in the poet’s works. The authors, in an innovative and multi-faceted manner, reconstruct ideas, formulas and notions, which develop a sui generis philosophy of memory in Słowacki’s works.


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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Anthony Le Donne

In response to the essays by Bauckham, Byrskog, Schröter, and Zimmermann concerning “memory”, Le Donne summarizes and critiques four different applications of mnemonic studies to the Jesus tradition. The author notes the different approaches to sociology relative to memory and argues that both autobiographical memory and collective memory fall under the wider category of social memory. Moreover, contra Bauckham social memory is helpful avenue of study for historical Jesus research once properly understood. Contra Schröter, he argues that the study of the social components of autobiographical memory ought to play a part in scholarship concerning the Gospels. He also challenges the false dichotomy between the “remembered Jesus” and the “historical Jesus” as posed by Zimmermann.


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth M. Van Dyke

This review provides a road map through current trends and issues in archaeological studies of memory. Many scholars continue to draw on Halbwachs for collective memory studies, emphasizing how the past can legitimate political authority. Others are inspired by Bergson, focusing on the persistent material intrusion of the past into the present. “Past in the past” studies are particularly widespread in the Near East/Classical world, Europe, the Maya region, and Native North America. Archaeologists have viewed materialized memory in various ways: as passively continuous, discursively referenced, intentionally invented, obliterated. Key domains of inquiry include monuments, places, and lieux de mémoire; treatment and disposal of the dead; habitual practices and senses; the recent and contemporary past; and forgetting and erasure. Important contemporary work deploys archaeology as a tool of counter-memory in the aftermath of recent violence and trauma.


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