Theorizing Social Memories (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts and Contexts
Redaktion: Sebald, Gerd; Wagle, Jatin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How do we remember and make sense of our collective pasts? Recent answers have revealed deep fissures within the theoretical landscape of memory studies. Grappling with the issues of social differentiation and forgetting, this book seeks to bridge these gaps by focusing on the uncharted futuristic terrain of social memories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134586486
• Artikelnr.: 49351988

Autorenporträt

Gerd Sebald is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. His research is in the area of social memories and the sociology of knowledge. He has recently published Generalisierung und Sinn: Überlegungen zur Formierung sozialer Gedächtnisse und des Sozialen [Generalizations and Meaning: Considerations on the Formation of Social Memories and of the Social] (2014). Jatin Wagle is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Osnabrück in Germany. His doctoral research is on the translatability of T. W. Adorno, and his publications are in the area of Critical Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Theorizing Social Memories: An introduction
Gerd Sebald & Jatin Wagle Part I: Concepts 1. Life World and Trauma. Selectivity of Social Memories
Ilja Srubar 2. The Social Construction of Individual and Collective Memory
Gabriele Rosenthal 3. The Forms of the Past: Temporalities
types and memories
Gerd Sebald Part II: Temporalities 4. Bringing the Future Back in: Temporal registers and the media
Daniel Levy 5. On the Significance of the Past for Present and Future Action
Christian Gudehus 6. The Heterogeneous Time of the Postcolonial: Inverted memories of Hitler in India
Jatin Wagle Part III: Functions 7. Memory as a Means of Social Integration
Nina Leonhard 8. Social Memory and the Politics of Remembering
Matthias Berek 9. Exploring the Dark Side of Social Memory: Towards a social theory of forgetting
Oliver Dimbat & Peter Wehling Part IV: Contexts 10. The Forms of Web-Memory
Elena Esposito 11. What is the Context of Memory?
Kobi Kabalek 12. Doing Social Memories: Gendered constructions of refugee narratives
Radhika Natarajan