Theorizing Social Memories: Concepts and Contexts

Sebald G, Wagle J (2015)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Edited Volume

Publication year: 2015

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 978-0415706902

Abstract

Public debates over the last two decades about social memories, about how as societies we remember, make sense of, and even imagine and invent, our collective pasts suggest that grand narratives have been abandoned for numerous little stories that contest the unified visions of the past. But, while focusing on the diversity of social remembering, these fragmentary accounts have also revealed the fault-lines within the theoretical terrain of memory studies. This critical anthology seeks to bridge these rifts and breaks within the contemporary theoretical landscape by addressing the pressing issues of social differentiation and forgetting as also the relatively unexplored futuristic aspect of social memories. Arranged in four thematic sections which focus on the concepts, temporalities, functions and contexts of social memories, this book includes essays that range across disciplines and present a variety of theoretical approaches, from phenomenological sociology and systems theory to biography research and post-colonialism.

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APA:

Sebald, G., & Wagle, J. (Eds.) (2015). Theorizing Social Memories: Concepts and Contexts. Routledge.

MLA:

Sebald, Gerd, and Jatin Wagle, eds. Theorizing Social Memories: Concepts and Contexts. Routledge, 2015.

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