Memory Edited

Author : Abby Smith Rumsey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262048477

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Memory, Edited by Abby Smith Rumsey Pdf

An exploration of historical memory and networks of meaning in the context of today’s crises of extremism and polarization. As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about what has happened and what is happening become ever more relevant. In Memory, Edited, Abby Smith Rumsey examines collective memory, how it binds us, and how it can be used by bad actors to manipulate us. Bringing forward the voices of a rich cast of Eastern European artists from the past two hundred years—from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Gerhard Richter—Rumsey shows how their work and lives illustrate the devastation wrought by regimes dependent on entrenched lies to survive. This hijacking of the narrative polarizes communities even as it commandeers our future. Through an interdisciplinary lens that includes the best thinking from history, the arts, cognitive science, psychology, and political philosophy, Rumsey lays bare our narratives, showing how they are constructed and how they have changed over time. Ever-aware of resisting the false promise of utopia, Rumsey argues that only by confronting the past and reckoning with the crimes that were committed can we ever hope to heal and gain self-knowledge. Memory, Edited is an indispensable text for anyone who cares about democracy, equality, and freedom in our current age of crisis.

Author : Philippe Tortell,Mark Turin,Margot Young
Publisher : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775276623

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Memory by Philippe Tortell,Mark Turin,Margot Young Pdf

This book examines the character and relevance of remembrance, inviting readers to think creatively and deeply about the ways that memories are transmitted, recorded, and distorted through time and space. Ranging from molecular genetics and astrophysics to law and Indigenous oral histories, the essays draw from a diverse group of contributors to capture different perspectives on memory. Reflecting upon memory in engaging and unexpected ways, this collection offers an interdisciplinary roadmap for exploring how, why, and when we remember.

Author : Richard Crownshaw,Jane Kilby,Antony Rowland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1845458478

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The Future of Memory by Richard Crownshaw,Jane Kilby,Antony Rowland Pdf

Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing 'real world' issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about 'trauma'.

Author : Russell J.A. Kilbourn,Eleanor Ty
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554589166

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The Memory Effect by Russell J.A. Kilbourn,Eleanor Ty Pdf

The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation. Memory’s irreducibly constructed nature is explored, even as its status is reaffirmed as the basis of both individual and collective identity. The book begins with an overview of the field, with an emphasis on the question of subjectivity. Under the section title Memory Studies: Theories, Changes, and Challenges, these chapters lay the theoretical groundwork for the volume. Section 2, Literature and the Power of Cultural Memory/Memorializing, focuses on the relation between literature and cultural memory. Section 3, Recuperating Lives: Memory and Life Writing, shifts the focus from literature to autobiography and life writing, especially those lives shaped by trauma and forgotten by history. Section 4, Cinematic Remediations: Memory and History, examines specific films in an effort to account for cinema’s intimate and mutually constitutive relationship with memory and history. The final section, Multi-Media Interventions: Television, Video, and Collective Memory, considers individual and collective memory in the context of contemporary visual texts, at the crossroads of popular and avant-garde cultures.

Author : Maurice Halbwachs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226774497

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On Collective Memory by Maurice Halbwachs Pdf

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts. With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory. Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

Author : Mark Alan Rhodes II,William R. Price,Amy Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000225334

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Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage by Mark Alan Rhodes II,William R. Price,Amy Walker Pdf

All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day. This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s communities and the senses of place and heritage that grew alongside and in reaction to the growth of mines, mills, and factories. The economic and social change that accompanied the unchecked accumulation of wealth and exploitation of labor as the industrial revolution spread throughout the world has numerous lasting impacts on the socioeconomics of today. Likewise, the planet itself is now reeling. The memory and heritage of these processes reach into the communities that owe the industrial revolution their existence, but these populations also often suffered adverse impacts to their health and environment through the large-scale and rapid extraction of natural resources and production of goods. Through the themes of memory, community, and place; working post-industrial landscapes; and the de-romanticization of industrial pasts, this book examines the endurance and decline of these communities, the spatial processes of industrial byproducts, and the memory and heritage of industrialization and its legacies. While based in the traditions of geography, this collection also draws upon and will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, architecture, civil engineering, and heritage, memory, museum, and tourism studies. Using global examples, the authors provide a uniquely geographic understanding to industrial heritage across the spaces, places, and memories of industrial development.

Author : Andrew Hoskins,John Tulloch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199375493

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Risk and Hyperconnectivity by Andrew Hoskins,John Tulloch Pdf

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings the paradigms of new risk theory, neoliberalization they, and connectivity theory together for the first time to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security. Probing a series of risk events that have already contoured the twenty-first century, this account shows how both established and emergent media are central in shaping past, present and future horizons of neoliberalism, while also propelling pressure for its alternatives.

Author : Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023057508

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The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate [edited by S. Annesley], St. Giles in the Fields [edited by Thomas Case], and in Southwark [edited by Nathaniel Vincent]: Being Divers Sermons, Preached A.D. 1659-1689. By Several Ministers of the Gospel in Or Near London. Fifth Edition. Carefully Collated and Corrected. With Notes and Translations, by J. Nichols. (Indexes. By the Rev. T. H. Horne [and Others].). by Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.) Pdf

Author : Ayşe Gül Altınay,María José Contreras,Marianne Hirsch,Jean Howard,Banu Karaca,Alisa Solomon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231549974

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Women Mobilizing Memory by Ayşe Gül Altınay,María José Contreras,Marianne Hirsch,Jean Howard,Banu Karaca,Alisa Solomon Pdf

Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations? Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Turkey, and the United States. The essays in this book assemble and discuss a deep archive of works that activate memory across a variety of protest cultures, ranging from seemingly minor acts of defiance to broader resistance movements. The memory practices it highlights constitute acts of repair that demand justice but do not aim at restitution. They invite the creation of alternative histories that can reconfigure painful pasts and presents. Giving voice to silenced memories and reclaiming collective memories that have been misrepresented in official narratives, Women Mobilizing Memory offers an alternative to more monumental commemorative practices. It models a new direction for memory studies and testifies to a continuing hope for an alternative future.

Author : Annette Kuhn,Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452275

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Locating Memory by Annette Kuhn,Kirsten Emiko McAllister Pdf

As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of memory in contemporary landscapes: from sites of war and other violence through the lost places of indigenous peoples to the once-familiar everyday places of home, family, neighborhood and community. Paying close attention to the settings in which such photographs are made and used--family collections, public archives, museums, newspapers, art galleries--the contributors consider how meanings in photographs may be shifted, challenged and renewed over time and for different purposes--from historical inquiry to quests for personal, familial, ethnic and national identity.

Author : Gabriele Biotti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527568921

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Performing Memories by Gabriele Biotti Pdf

What is memory today? How can it be approached? Why does the contemporary world seem to be more and more haunted by different types of memories still asking for elaboration? Which artistic experiences have explored and defined memory in meaningful ways? How do technologies and the media have changed it? These are just some of the questions developed in this collection of essays analysing memory and memory shapes, which explores the different ways in which past time and its elaboration have been, and still are, elaborated, discussed, written or filmed, and contested, but also shared. By gathering together scholars from different fields of investigation, this book explores the cultural, social and artistic tensions in representing the past and the present, in understanding our legacies, and in approaching historical time and experience. Through the analysis of different representations of memory, and the investigation of literature, anthropology, myth and storytelling, a space of theories and discourses about the symbolic and cultural spaces of memory representation is developed.

Author : Mohammed Girma
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498572644

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The Healing of Memories by Mohammed Girma Pdf

Africa has seen many political crises ranging from violent political ideologies, to meticulous articulated racist governance system, to ethnic clashes resulting in genocide and religious conflicts that have planted the seed of mutual suspicion.The masses impacted by such crises live with the past that has not passed. The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma examines Christian responses to the damaging impact of conflict on the collective memory. Troubled memory is a recipe for another cycle of conflict. While most academic works tend to stress forgiving and forgetting, they did not offer much as to how to deal with the unforgettable past. This book aims to fill this gap by charting an interdisciplinary approach to healing the corrosive memories of painful pasts. Taking a cue from the empirical expositions of post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide Rwanda, the Congo Wars, and post-Red Terror Ethiopia, this volume brings together coherent healing approaches to deal with traumatic memory.

Author : James Opp,John C. Walsh
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774859622

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Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada by James Opp,John C. Walsh Pdf

Places are imagined, made, claimed, fought for and defended, and always in a state of becoming. This important book explores the historical and theoretical relationships among place, community, and public memory across differing chronologies and geographies within twentieth-century Canada. It is a collaborative work that shifts the focus from nation and empire to local places sitting at the intersection of public memory making and identity formation � main streets, city squares and village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the landscape itself. With a focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, the essays gathered here argue that every act of memory making is simultaneously an act of forgetting; every place memorialized is accompanied by places forgotten.

Author : Miriam Ben-Peretz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791423042

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Learning from Experience by Miriam Ben-Peretz Pdf

This book is about the development of teachers'professional knowledge.

Author : Pranjal Garg
Publisher : The Mind Gala
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tales of neuroscience by Pranjal Garg Pdf

Tales of Neuroscience is a compendium of 41 articles authored by students and mentors who participated in a mentorship program. The book covers a diverse range of topics within the field of neuroscience, including basic neuroscience, diseases, mental health, neuro-technology, and the impact of neuroscience on daily life. The book is unique in that it also includes translations of select articles in Hindi, Bengali, and Malayalam, thereby broadening the accessibility of the content to a wider audience. The contributors offer insightful perspectives and deep insights into the intricacies of the brain, making this book an informative and engaging read for anyone interested in the field of neuroscience.