Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231202853
Clorinda Sissi Galasso
At the beginning of the fourth wave of memory studies, the relationship with design appears poorly explored, although the memory project is fundamental for the contemporary and interdisciplinary past reframing. From this perspective, the article proposes an intrinsic but not yet evident link between memory studies and communication design for the territory, a young discipline that has taken up the “stratified place” as its own specific dimension, focusing on its valorization and visual translation. This novel connection is highlighted by the mnemotopic approach in which place and memory coexist in a unique meaning formation, supporting the remembrance of the territorial experience. Through a lexical transfer of the term mnemotope, generally used in other fields of knowledge (e.g. cultural anthropology), to design, it becomes a performative concept integrated into processes and artifacts as an active part of project development. The mnemotope as a plural object of territorial interpretation, sailing from Nora’s lieux de memoire, passing through Assmann’s cultural memory reflections, and landing in communication design, can be adopted as an alternative interpretative criterion that not only proposes a resematization of the memory of places but can be considered as a real medium for exploring the past that can also operate on a didactic level by being included in experimental design courses. In this context, the article will show how the mnemotopic approach has been developed during my personal doctoral journey and pedagogically implemented by the DCxT research group of the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231202347
Stef Craps
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231203638
Eugenia Allier Montaño, Juan Sebastián Granada-Cardona
Latin America is a very fertile region for memory studies, as evidenced by the publications that range from the founding works of Elizabeth Jelin to the most recent compilation works. It is important to recognize that this consolidated field of studies has traditionally revolved around victimization processes and, more recently, transitional justice. However, it is also a scenario for the renewal of memory studies, in tune with contemporary global debates such as (1) the new generations and post-memory; (2) the redefinition of the role of the state as guarantor of official and public memories and, added to this; (3) the new place (geographical, institutional) occupied by the citizenry. Based on an assessment that recovers both the founding studies in Latin America, as well as the main contributions of research on memory and violence (with emphasis on work on transitional justice, exile and new generations), here we identify the new lines of research that are being privileged by memory studies in the region, this in order to draw a new research agenda for the field, which registers both the renewal of traditional themes (e.g. systematic investigations on the engagements of the researchers regarding issues such as transitional processes, and violence against marginalized or repressed groups; or the need to reintroduce the field of corporeity to think about issues such as gender, violence, exile) and the emergence of new problems of urgent research (the field of crises and uncertainty).
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231213578b
Taylor Annabell
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231207598
Marcello Messina, Francisco Bento da Silva, Letícia Porto Ribeiro, Jairo de Araújo Souza
In this article, we take Erll’s important categorisation about the three different generations of memory studies scholars as a starting point in order to propose a chronotopical dislocation that envisages Amazonia as the epistemic spatiotemporal centre of our memory studies. In doing so, we account for a pluriverse of social and ethnic conflicts, border tensions, plurilingualisms, intersections of the human with the non-human – both in terms of nature as a sentient, self-determined being and in terms of the violent dehumanisation of racialised individuals and peoples – that point not only to heterogeneous spatial conceptions, but also to hardly conciliable (and yet commonly coexistent) temporalities. Considering both Erll’s mapping of a third generation of ‘transcultural’ memory scholars and Craps’ claims about a new wave of memory studies that goes ‘beyond anthropocentric modes of cognition and representation’, we argue that Amazon-centred memory studies intersect and embrace both these tendencies. After presenting a series of case studies revolving around the complex politics of memory regarding state massacres, contentious border narratives and forceful dispossessions in the region, we try to demonstrate that Amazon-centred memory studies are not exclusively applicable to a local, circumscribed reality – on the contrary, they constitute a model that may help us make sense of other geographical realities (e.g. the Mediterranean or Australia) or function as theoretical tools applicable to different disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1177/17506980231197120
Maria Abranches
Drawing on life history interviews conducted with former fishers and other older residents in Great Yarmouth – one of the 20% most deprived districts in England – this article explores how memories of a once flourishing fishing industry are used to make sense of the decline that followed the end of the industry in the 1960s. Focusing on the material and affective constituents of people’s memories, embodied in three categories of fishing-related objects (boats and quay, nets and fish) through which their stories are told, I explore how those formerly involved in fishing-related activities understand and experience the past and their world in the present. Using biographical and historical memories to reclaim their role in the making of a town that they consider to ‘have missed the boat’, they are able to make sense of the transformations that occurred and to reclaim their role as place makers.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.1177/17506980231197126
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Josephine Møller Jensen, Alexander Ulrich Thygesen, Max Odsbjerg Pedersen
This article makes a methodological contribution to the growing subfield of digital memory studies. It demonstrates a possible way forward for memory studies scholars who want to try out digital methods but also remain in conversation with the kinds of research traditionally produced within the field. The article revolves around a showcase of an analytical workflow for conducting a scalable reading of large quantities of tweets through access to the Twitter API. The article argues that using only basic computational approaches to social media data in combination with API access can drastically improve data collection practices and enrich analytical practices, producing results recognizable and compatible with existing research in memory studies. As a case study, the article uses a dataset of nearly 200,000 tweets collected around two events that prompted Twitter users to discuss the history of the American children’s television program Sesame Street. It does so to demonstrate: first, how a visualization focusing on chronology can help underpin arguments about heightened activity around certain events. Second, a close reading of selected tweets from these events can support claims of shared activity, even if no hashtags were used. And third, how using simple tools for distant reading makes it possible to converse with questions and issues about gatekeepers and connectivity already central within memory studies. Furthermore, the article demonstrates how the Twitter API supports a more systematical, large-scale collection of tweets than usually seen in memory studies, making researchers less dependent on the algorithmic bias that rules the search in the platform’s regular interface.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1177/17506980231184541b
Johanna Kreft
{"title":"Book review: Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia","authors":"Johanna Kreft","doi":"10.1177/17506980231184541b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231184541b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878001","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 : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1177/17506980231184541a
Shauna N Gillooly
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{"title":"Book review: The Prisons Memory Archive: A Case Study in Filmed Memory of Conflict","authors":"Shauna N Gillooly","doi":"10.1177/17506980231184541a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231184541a","url":null,"abstract":"Fujitani T, White GM and Yoneyama L (eds) (2001) Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Halbwachs M (1992) On Collective Memory (ed. and L Coser). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Markovits AS and Reich S (1997) The contemporary power of memory: the dilemmas for German foreign policy. Communication Review 2(1): 89–119. McLuhan M (1967) The Medium is the Message: An Inventory of Effects. London: Penguin Books. Mukherjee S and Salter PS (eds) (2019) History and Collective Memory from the Margins: A Global Perspective. New York: Nova Science Publishers. Olick JK, Vinitzky-Serouss V and Levy D (eds) (2011) The Collective Memory Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Orwell G (1949) 1984. New York: New American Library. Renan E (2018) What is a nation? (Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? 1882). In: What is a Nation? And Other Political Writings (ed. and trans. MFN Giglioni). New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 247–263. Smith AD (2000) The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism. Lebanon: University Press of New England.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879233","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}
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