Research Methods for Memory Studies

264 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the fieldThis guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Key Features:- Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narratives- Exploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage- Attending to painful pasts and disrupted memory - Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities- Focusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory- Analysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors

• Reihe: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Kognitive Psychologie
• ISBN: 9780748645954
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2013
• Größe: 233 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley