Susannah Radstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 227450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susannah Radstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Radstone |
| SIGNATURE | RADSTONE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1830-9917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Working with Memory: An Introduction
The contemporary academic fascination with memory exemplified by the essays collected in this volume is but one manifestation of a more general historical upswing - or what one writer has described as &s;a..boom of unprecedented proportions&s; in memory&s;s valuation. Buci-Glucksmann&s;s challenge to Huyssen rests on a rebuttal of his account of modernity, which aligns the epoch too simplistically with reason and objectivity. The atrocities of tw…
Screening Trauma: Forrest Gump, Film and Memory
The theoretical and methodological tension around memory in film studies arises from cinepsychoanalysis' difficulty in addressing memory - a paradoxical difficulty, given the cinema's inextricable connections with memory. Memory's historical and contemporary association with the cinema must be set beside, however, cinepsychoanalysis' paradoxically difficult relation to memory — a difficulty that stems, in part, from a continuingly contentious the…
Memory and Methodology
Provincializing memory studies: The insistence of the ‘here-now’
This essay responds to Astrid Erll’s question about what it might mean to do memory studies in different parts of the world. We offer a response from the perspective of three researchers based in Australia. Focused on a season-opening gala performance, a photographic series, a site-specific protest, and a film that takes a choir from Central Australia to Germany, the essay tracks the emergence, in culture, of something we term the ‘here-now’. The…
Memory History Nation: Contested Pasts, Memory and Narrative Series
In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority, and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective, and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the …
Rethinking witnessing across history, culture and time’
Sea passages: Trauma, Arendtian thinking and what dialogues with art can do
This essay explores Alex Seton’s artwork Someone died trying to have a life like mine in terms of its initiation and sustaining of a dialogue with gallery visitors. Focused on the moving qualities of this dialogue as well as on its ethics, and starting out from approaches developed within memory and trauma research, the essay discusses Someone died’s relations with witnessing, testimony, trauma and memory trails. Having concluded that certain asp…
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand." Critical Arts, 31(5), p. 77
Top of the Lake’s Emotional Landscape: Reparation at the Edge of the World
This essay discusses the TV series Top of the Lake (Campion 2013) within the frameworks of theories of trauma and psychoanalytic object relations. The essay’s focus falls on the prominence given to the New Zealand landscape in the series and in reviews, and on Top of the Lake’s apparently paradoxical combining of a narrative concern with extreme violence and performances that evoke childlike playfulness. Having examined the possibility of categor…
The place where we live’: Memory, mirrors and The Secret River
For the psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, living takes place at the intersection of inner and outer worlds, in a space riven by destructiveness and enlivened by love, play and repair. Working with Winnicott’s understandings of empathy and play, this essay explores creative writing’s prompting of a recognition of the not-yet-past, as it suffuses the place where we live. This essay focuses on the rancorous debates among historians and critics that foll…
Memory up close: Memory studies in Australia
This special issue was first conceived of over dinner in a New Zealand cafe in London, on a warm summer night in July 2010. During that evening, it emerged that we’d both already been thinking about the issues we raise here for some time. Rosanne, a US citizen, and now Australian citizen, who has lived and worked in Australia since the 1990s, had co-edited a book on World Memory (Bennett and Kennedy, 2003). Susannah, at that point a UK citizen wo…
Afterword: Bringing Memory Home: Location, Theory, Hybridity
What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination—among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors address the question of how memory works, highlighting tran…
Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony: Turning the subject inside out
Nostalgia: Home-comings and departures
Caché: Or what the past hides
Michael Haneke's film Caché (Hidden) (2005) has provoked a good deal of criticism and debate, much of it focusing on the question of the ‘hidden’ to which the film's title refers. Responses to the film have tended to focus on Caché's relations with colonial history as trauma, aligning the film's ‘hidden’ with the dissociated memory of France's ‘dirty war’ against Algeria. The psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche offers the Humanities an approa…
The Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory
Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Philip Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso, Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been foregrounded in theories of postmodernism, those theories have ignored the question of time and sexual difference. The Sexual Politics of Time proposes that the contemporary western world has witnessed a s…
Memory studies: For and against
This article examines the opportunities and risks afforded by the consolidation of memory research into the subject area of `memory studies'. Debates about memory culture outside the academy and within academic memory research have hinged on its perceived over-personalization of the political. However, memory research is often informed by a broader ethical turn that understands itself to be transforming politics. The article argues that this spli…
Public Emotions
Trauma Theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics
This article discusses the current ‘popularity’ of trauma research in the Humanities and examines the ethics and politics of trauma theory, as exemplified in the writings of Caruth and Felman and Laub.Written from a position informed by Laplanchian and object relations psychoanalytic theory, it begins by examining and offering a critique of trauma theory's model of subjectivity, and its relations with theories of referentiality and representation…
Reconceiving Binaries: The Limits of Memory
Memory can be social only if it is capable of being transmitted and to be transmitted a memory must first be articulated.1 MEMORY AND MEDIATION This essay puts the case for memory studies to attend to memory’s mediation and articulation across and within the public sphere. The essay begins by defining the key terms of mediation and articulation, before mobilizing them to argue that they can aid in differentiating memory from ‘the past ’ and in di…
Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory
Regimes of Memory
Part I - Believing the Body Part II - Propping the Subject Part III - What Memory Forgets: Models of the Mind Part IV - What History Forgets: Memory and Time Part V - Memory Beyond the Modern
The War of the Fathers: Trauma, Fantasy, and September 11
Memory and Methodology
What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
Memory studies: For and against
This article examines the opportunities and risks afforded by the consolidation of memory research into the subject area of `memory studies'. Debates about memory culture outside the academy and within academic memory research have hinged on its perceived over-personalization of the political. However, memory research is often informed by a broader ethical turn that understands itself to be transforming politics. The article argues that this spli…
Trauma Theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics
This article discusses the current ‘popularity’ of trauma research in the Humanities and examines the ethics and politics of trauma theory, as exemplified in the writings of Caruth and Felman and Laub.Written from a position informed by Laplanchian and object relations psychoanalytic theory, it begins by examining and offering a critique of trauma theory's model of subjectivity, and its relations with theories of referentiality and representation…
Nostalgia: Home-comings and departures
Reconceiving Binaries: The Limits of Memory
Memory can be social only if it is capable of being transmitted and to be transmitted a memory must first be articulated.1 MEMORY AND MEDIATION This essay puts the case for memory studies to attend to memory’s mediation and articulation across and within the public sphere. The essay begins by defining the key terms of mediation and articulation, before mobilizing them to argue that they can aid in differentiating memory from ‘the past ’ and in di…
Memory up close: Memory studies in Australia
This special issue was first conceived of over dinner in a New Zealand cafe in London, on a warm summer night in July 2010. During that evening, it emerged that we’d both already been thinking about the issues we raise here for some time. Rosanne, a US citizen, and now Australian citizen, who has lived and worked in Australia since the 1990s, had co-edited a book on World Memory (Bennett and Kennedy, 2003). Susannah, at that point a UK citizen wo…
Provincializing memory studies: The insistence of the ‘here-now’
This essay responds to Astrid Erll’s question about what it might mean to do memory studies in different parts of the world. We offer a response from the perspective of three researchers based in Australia. Focused on a season-opening gala performance, a photographic series, a site-specific protest, and a film that takes a choir from Central Australia to Germany, the essay tracks the emergence, in culture, of something we term the ‘here-now’. The…
Public Emotions
Afterword: Bringing Memory Home: Location, Theory, Hybridity
Top of the Lake’s Emotional Landscape: Reparation at the Edge of the World
This essay discusses the TV series Top of the Lake (Campion 2013) within the frameworks of theories of trauma and psychoanalytic object relations. The essay’s focus falls on the prominence given to the New Zealand landscape in the series and in reviews, and on Top of the Lake’s apparently paradoxical combining of a narrative concern with extreme violence and performances that evoke childlike playfulness. Having examined the possibility of categor…
Caché: Or what the past hides
Michael Haneke's film Caché (Hidden) (2005) has provoked a good deal of criticism and debate, much of it focusing on the question of the ‘hidden’ to which the film's title refers. Responses to the film have tended to focus on Caché's relations with colonial history as trauma, aligning the film's ‘hidden’ with the dissociated memory of France's ‘dirty war’ against Algeria. The psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche offers the Humanities an approa…
Cinema/memory/history
Journal Article Cinema/memory/history Get access Susannah Radstone Susannah Radstone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 34–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.1.34 Published: 01 March 1995
Formations of Pleasure
Woman' to Women
Journal Article ‘Woman’ to Women Get access Susannah Radstone Susannah Radstone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 3-4, May-August 1985, Pages 111–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.3-4.111 Published: 01 May 1985
Postcard from the Edge: Thoughts on the ‘Feminist Theory: An International Debate’ Conference held at Glasgow University, Scotland, 12–15 July 1991
Postcard from the Edge: Thoughts on the 'Feminist Theory: An International Debate' Conference Held at Glasgow University, Scotland, 12-15 July 1991
Susannah Radstone, Postcard from the Edge: Thoughts on the 'Feminist Theory: An International Debate' Conference Held at Glasgow University, Scotland, 12-15 July 1991, Feminist Review, No. 40 (Spring, 1992), pp. 85-93
Remembering Medea: The uses of nostalgia
Cinema/memory/history
Journal Article Cinema/memory/history Get access Susannah Radstone Susannah Radstone Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 34–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.1.34 Published: 01 March 1995
The War of the Fathers: Trauma, Fantasy, and September 11
Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory
Regimes of Memory
Part I - Believing the Body Part II - Propping the Subject Part III - What Memory Forgets: Models of the Mind Part IV - What History Forgets: Memory and Time Part V - Memory Beyond the Modern
Reconceiving Binaries: The Limits of Memory
Memory can be social only if it is capable of being transmitted and to be transmitted a memory must first be articulated.1 MEMORY AND MEDIATION This essay puts the case for memory studies to attend to memory’s mediation and articulation across and within the public sphere. The essay begins by defining the key terms of mediation and articulation, before mobilizing them to argue that they can aid in differentiating memory from ‘the past ’ and in di…
The Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory
Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Philip Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso, Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been foregrounded in theories of postmodernism, those theories have ignored the question of time and sexual difference. The Sexual Politics of Time proposes that the contemporary western world has witnessed a s…
Memory studies: For and against
This article examines the opportunities and risks afforded by the consolidation of memory research into the subject area of `memory studies'. Debates about memory culture outside the academy and within academic memory research have hinged on its perceived over-personalization of the political. However, memory research is often informed by a broader ethical turn that understands itself to be transforming politics. The article argues that this spli…
Public Emotions
Trauma Theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics
This article discusses the current ‘popularity’ of trauma research in the Humanities and examines the ethics and politics of trauma theory, as exemplified in the writings of Caruth and Felman and Laub.Written from a position informed by Laplanchian and object relations psychoanalytic theory, it begins by examining and offering a critique of trauma theory's model of subjectivity, and its relations with theories of referentiality and representation…
Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination—among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors address the question of how memory works, highlighting tran…
Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony: Turning the subject inside out
Nostalgia: Home-comings and departures
Caché: Or what the past hides
Michael Haneke's film Caché (Hidden) (2005) has provoked a good deal of criticism and debate, much of it focusing on the question of the ‘hidden’ to which the film's title refers. Responses to the film have tended to focus on Caché's relations with colonial history as trauma, aligning the film's ‘hidden’ with the dissociated memory of France's ‘dirty war’ against Algeria. The psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche offers the Humanities an approa…
What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
Afterword: Bringing Memory Home: Location, Theory, Hybridity
The place where we live’: Memory, mirrors and The Secret River
For the psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, living takes place at the intersection of inner and outer worlds, in a space riven by destructiveness and enlivened by love, play and repair. Working with Winnicott’s understandings of empathy and play, this essay explores creative writing’s prompting of a recognition of the not-yet-past, as it suffuses the place where we live. This essay focuses on the rancorous debates among historians and critics that foll…
Memory up close: Memory studies in Australia
This special issue was first conceived of over dinner in a New Zealand cafe in London, on a warm summer night in July 2010. During that evening, it emerged that we’d both already been thinking about the issues we raise here for some time. Rosanne, a US citizen, and now Australian citizen, who has lived and worked in Australia since the 1990s, had co-edited a book on World Memory (Bennett and Kennedy, 2003). Susannah, at that point a UK citizen wo…
Memory History Nation: Contested Pasts, Memory and Narrative Series
In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority, and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective, and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the …
Rethinking witnessing across history, culture and time’
Sea passages: Trauma, Arendtian thinking and what dialogues with art can do
This essay explores Alex Seton’s artwork Someone died trying to have a life like mine in terms of its initiation and sustaining of a dialogue with gallery visitors. Focused on the moving qualities of this dialogue as well as on its ethics, and starting out from approaches developed within memory and trauma research, the essay discusses Someone died’s relations with witnessing, testimony, trauma and memory trails. Having concluded that certain asp…
Sociology (20 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (18 works) · History (17 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Art (11 works) · History (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works)