James H. LiuCollective Remembering and the Making of Political Culture
James H. Liu is Professor of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. His research focuses on social, cross-cultural, and political psychology. He has been influential in the development of Asian social psychology, including an indigenous psychology of Confucianism, and he advocates for psychology as a human science.
Part I. Introduction to Collective Remembering: 1. The rise of research on
collective remembering; 2. Top-down approaches to collective remembering;
3. Bottom-up approaches to collective remembering; Part II. Developing a
Theoretical Approach to Collective Remembering: 4. The organization of
collective memory; 5. Social representations of world history as a symbolic
resource: content informs process in future making; 6. Historiography and
human agency: collective memory as history, and history in collective
remembering; 7. A dialectical approach to collective remembering; Part III.
Idiographic Case Studies of Collective Remembering: 8. China and the United
States of America: going beyond the Thucydides trap; 9. Colonization and
decolonization in Israel-Palestine and Aotearoa-New Zealand; 10. The
COVID-19 pandemic and the reciprocal relationship between past, present,
and future.
