Theorizing Social Memories
Release on 2015-11-19 | by Gerd Sebald

... or collective forgetting of particular events that could be of enormous relevance to the society and social theory, ... when it has at all engaged with social memory, primarily on social remembering in the form of handing down of ...

Theorizing Social Memories
  • Author: Gerd Sebald
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781134586417
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 234
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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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