Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231202849
M. Makhortykh
The rise of digital technologies has caused a major shift in memory studies. The unprecedented possibilities for storing and retrieving information enabled by platforms not only expand capacities for preserving memory-related content for individuals and collectives but also challenge existing memory power structures. An integral constituent of the scholarly assessment of these transformations is the increased focus on the memory actors’ agency and connectivity. Despite the importance of such a user-centric focus, the article argues that it can be limiting for the field of (digital) memory studies conceptually and methodologically. Under the condition when platforms and their algorithms turn into (hegemonic) memory actors themselves and determine what data memory scholars and the general public can (not) access, there is a pressing need for critically revisiting the key assumptions about memory in the digital age. To address this need, the article discusses the fundamental premises of a more infrastructure-centric approach to memory studies together with the conceptual and methodological implications of its adoption for studying individual and collective remembrance.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231203645
Rosanne Kennedy, Ben Silverstein
We take up the challenge to extend the ‘archive of mnemonic practices’ beyond recent histories of violence by facilitating a dialogue between scholarship on deep history and the fourth wave of memory studies, both emerging under the sign of the Anthropocene. In so doing, we engage with the problem of transmission as it has emerged in both fields. Works in cultural memory studies provide us with compelling ways of thinking through mediated practices of transmission, but they are limited by their focus on the recent past and on encultured technologies of memory that primarily reflect the European origins of the field. Studies of deep history, which engage transmission among Indigenous communities, by contrast, tend to rely on an account of transmission as precise replication, oftentimes over hundreds of generations. To reconsider and theorize mediated practices of transmission, we draw on the concept of the deep present as formulated within ethnomusicology. This term describes a present in which Aboriginal culture-work and performance both transmits memory of the deep past and evokes that deep past itself, activating it today. We consider two public installations as examples of remembrance of the deep past in urban Warrane/Sydney – bara by Judy Watson and Virtual Warrane by Brett Leavy – each of which is of Country in a way that connects memory over time and activates a deep present. We argue that these instances of memory in the deep present might offer ways of reconsidering the possibilities of a decolonizing future.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231204201
Silvana Mandolessi
This article examines the changes experienced by collective memory in the digital era. Contrary to the thesis that digital memory entails a new type of memory, which is radically different from the traditional conceptualization, I argue that the practice of digital memory materializes and implements the theoretical claims made by Memory Studies since the field’s inception – collective memory conceived as a process, mediated and remediated by multiple media, with the participation of dynamic communities that perform rather than represent the past. In the article, I address what I propose are the following four major transformations that collective memory has undergone in the digital era: (1) the new ontology of the digital archive; (2) the shift from narrative as a privileged form of collective memory to the cultural form of the database; (3) the reconfiguration of agency, in which a distributed memory is performed by human and non-human agents in a dynamic entanglement; and (4) the shift from mnemonic objects to mnemonic assemblages, comprising persons, things, artefacts, spaces, discourses, behaviours and expressions in dynamic relatedness.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231207610
Jeffrey K. Olick
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231202339
Daniel Palacios González
The following proposes a reframing of approaches to Memory Studies from a materialist perspective. Memory Studies emerged simultaneously with the decline of materialist theories and political economy in historical and cultural studies. Despite attempts to generate alternative genealogies and methodological updates, materialism and political economy have been omitted from the study of memory. Several possibilities to define frameworks for future work on memory will be explored here. First, working on memory as part of a mode of production; second, understanding memory as a field that organises internal hierarchies; and third, defining memory as an ideology that ensures the reproduction of the mode of production. This theoretical proposal is supported by fieldwork and experience in the study of memory practices and policies related to the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco’s Dictatorship.
{"title":"Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance","authors":"Daniel Palacios González","doi":"10.1177/17506980231202339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231202339","url":null,"abstract":"The following proposes a reframing of approaches to Memory Studies from a materialist perspective. Memory Studies emerged simultaneously with the decline of materialist theories and political economy in historical and cultural studies. Despite attempts to generate alternative genealogies and methodological updates, materialism and political economy have been omitted from the study of memory. Several possibilities to define frameworks for future work on memory will be explored here. First, working on memory as part of a mode of production; second, understanding memory as a field that organises internal hierarchies; and third, defining memory as an ideology that ensures the reproduction of the mode of production. This theoretical proposal is supported by fieldwork and experience in the study of memory practices and policies related to the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco’s Dictatorship.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"23 40","pages":"1452 - 1465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138625134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231204203
Shukuko Koyama
This essay explores transnational history education through the China–Korea–Japan CAMPUS Asia ENGAGE Program. Utilising active learning, project-based activities and joint history textbook creation, students navigate East Asia’s contested past. The approach encourages a shift from national to transnational identities, fostering a ‘global citizen’ perspective. By deconstructing conventional history narratives and constructing alternative, intersectional viewpoints, students develop a nuanced understanding that transcends divisive national boundaries. This pedagogical strategy underscores the potential of active learning in advocating global history perspectives for conflict resolution and reshaping historical memory.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231204177
Dilara Çalışkan
This article focuses on the question of, Can we study memory and its curious itineraries as spaces of kin-making? By focusing on the stories of trans mothers and trans daughters, this research aims to show how women with trans experiences play with the gendered and sexualized links between body, family, time, and memory. The article is organized into two main sections. The first part focuses on everyday practices and experiences of trans motherhoods and trans daughterhoods to illustrate how memory formation and memory transmission are crucial components in the construction of kin-ties and individual identity. Second, I turn my attention to the literature on transcultural and transgenerational memories, highlighting how scholars working across the fields of memory, kinship, and trans and queer studies enrich the scope of trans*. Engaging with trans* approaches to memory and relatedness, expands and plays with legal, political, and social experiences of spatial and temporal confinement while inviting us to attentively see lived experiences that unapologetically experiment with the links between memory and relatedness.
{"title":"Trans theoretical approaches to memory and relatedness: Potentials and suggestions at the intersections of transgender studies and queer studies","authors":"Dilara Çalışkan","doi":"10.1177/17506980231204177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231204177","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the question of, Can we study memory and its curious itineraries as spaces of kin-making? By focusing on the stories of trans mothers and trans daughters, this research aims to show how women with trans experiences play with the gendered and sexualized links between body, family, time, and memory. The article is organized into two main sections. The first part focuses on everyday practices and experiences of trans motherhoods and trans daughterhoods to illustrate how memory formation and memory transmission are crucial components in the construction of kin-ties and individual identity. Second, I turn my attention to the literature on transcultural and transgenerational memories, highlighting how scholars working across the fields of memory, kinship, and trans and queer studies enrich the scope of trans*. Engaging with trans* approaches to memory and relatedness, expands and plays with legal, political, and social experiences of spatial and temporal confinement while inviting us to attentively see lived experiences that unapologetically experiment with the links between memory and relatedness.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" 7","pages":"1484 - 1499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231207471
Hernando Blandón Gómez, P. Golovátina-Mora
Using the case of an undergraduate graphic design course taught in a Colombian private university, this article focuses on ways of teaching memory – historical, collective, cultural and individual. The authors emphasize the importance of the critical and socially responsible approach in education. Drawn from critical pedagogies and affective memory studies, the authors discuss the journey of the students of rediscovering alternative realities of their city and country and learning to acknowledge the complexity of memory and multiple forms of its mediation in a socially fragmented post-conflict society.
{"title":"Memory study as and through the socially responsive and meaningful design: A classroom experience","authors":"Hernando Blandón Gómez, P. Golovátina-Mora","doi":"10.1177/17506980231207471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231207471","url":null,"abstract":"Using the case of an undergraduate graphic design course taught in a Colombian private university, this article focuses on ways of teaching memory – historical, collective, cultural and individual. The authors emphasize the importance of the critical and socially responsible approach in education. Drawn from critical pedagogies and affective memory studies, the authors discuss the journey of the students of rediscovering alternative realities of their city and country and learning to acknowledge the complexity of memory and multiple forms of its mediation in a socially fragmented post-conflict society.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" 3","pages":"1642 - 1651"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138616993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231202847
Juliane Prade-Weiss, Dominik Markl, Vladimir Petrović
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 challenges memory studies to analyze transmissions of discourses which justify mass violence and challenge the focus on denial. On the one hand, the Russian regime’s claim to undertake “denazification” and prevent a “genocide” expounds the seminal role of cultural memory in politics. The weaponization of history, international law, and religion is widely accepted in Russian society and by global populisms. On the other hand, the invasion came as a surprise even to many experts because in politics, media, and research, justifications of mass violence are often dismissed as pretexts distracting from facts. Yet, the dismissal entails a major lacuna: we know too little about how justifications travel through societies and have a long-term impact. The article proposes that while acts of mass violence alter political and socio-economic realities, justifications of mass violence establish the linguistic and heuristic parameter for their subsequent juridical, moral, and scholarly evaluation. Normalizations of justifications contribute to perpetuating societal fault lines and set the frame for further conflict. The memory studies focus on transgenerational transmissions of psycho-social sequalae of violence laid the groundwork for understanding longue durée transmissions. However, memory studies have focused on denial as a key psychological and political driving force of transmissions, while, for instance, Russian and Serbian memory cultures are shaped by both denial and outright affirmations—not-even-denial—of past mass violence as model for present politics. Memory studies provide the appropriate conceptual space as a framework for addressing implicit normalizations and explicit affirmations of justifications of mass violence.
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