Thomas Van De Putte
Biographic Data
| ID | 740353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Van De Putte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Van De Putte |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DE PUTTE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5784-2773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study
In this article, I argue for memory studies as the analysis of the culturalization and entextualization of meanings attributed to past experience. The data analysed here provide us with the opportunity to theorize about the three key processes underlying such culturalization and entextualization. First, it allows us to understand how meanings attributed to the past are moved from the intimate personal realm into the cultural realm, where they can…
Introduction: Micro-memories
This editorial introduces the 10 articles collected in this special issue on micro-memories and theorizes their individual and collective contributions to the field of memory studies. In the special issue, 10 memory scholars analyse the same short strip of interaction: a 3-minute fragment of a Belgian woman talking about her deceased father’s past as a collaborator with the Germans during the Second World War. In this empirical exercise, contribu…
Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity
This article uses a dialogue between memory studies (MS) and ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics (EIS) to explore the dynamics of interdisciplinarity. MS focuses on the social remembering of high-profile and often traumatic events, and this is relevant to EIS's growing interest in (in)securitization. MS is increasingly keen to explore everyday practices of remembering in interscalar analyses, and EIS' expertise in the study of mundane…
Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction
This article presents the results of a qualitative micro-study of a 3-minute conversation between a research participant and a researcher. The talk in the interaction concerns the past of the contemporary Polish town of Oświęcim, internationally better known as Auschwitz. Borrowing methods and concepts from interactional sociology and linguistic ethnography, the article demonstrates that people know different cultural narratives about the same pa…
Cultural memories and their re-actualizations: A narrative perspective
Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some con…
Remembering Jews in Poland: The encounter between Warsaw’s Polin Museum and rural memories of Jewish absence – divergent aims and needs
The POLIN Museum runs a traveling exhibition (Museum on Wheels) which has visited places in rural Poland since 2014. The exhibition’s aim is to teach about ‘the centuries of coexistence of Jewish and Polish culture.’ The Holocaust is one of the elements presented but is not central. Our content and lexicometric analysis of interviews with visitors from five towns visited by MoW in 2015 and 2016 indicates that the needs articulated by visitors dif…
Delineating memoryscapes: Auschwitz versus Oświęcim
This article explores how inhabitants of the town of Oświęcim/Auschwitz discursively construct two memoryscapes. On the one hand, there is the ‘living’ Oświęcim, on the other hand there is the ‘dead’ Auschwitz. Demarcations between the two are fluid and their meaning depends on the person who is defining and the audience addressed. Locals draw on these memoryscapes in creating mental borders within their physical living space, especially to creat…
Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction
This article presents the results of a qualitative micro-study of a 3-minute conversation between a research participant and a researcher. The talk in the interaction concerns the past of the contemporary Polish town of Oświęcim, internationally better known as Auschwitz. Borrowing methods and concepts from interactional sociology and linguistic ethnography, the article demonstrates that people know different cultural narratives about the same pa…
Cultural memories and their re-actualizations: A narrative perspective
Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some con…
Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity
This article uses a dialogue between memory studies (MS) and ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics (EIS) to explore the dynamics of interdisciplinarity. MS focuses on the social remembering of high-profile and often traumatic events, and this is relevant to EIS's growing interest in (in)securitization. MS is increasingly keen to explore everyday practices of remembering in interscalar analyses, and EIS' expertise in the study of mundane…
Introduction: Micro-memories
This editorial introduces the 10 articles collected in this special issue on micro-memories and theorizes their individual and collective contributions to the field of memory studies. In the special issue, 10 memory scholars analyse the same short strip of interaction: a 3-minute fragment of a Belgian woman talking about her deceased father’s past as a collaborator with the Germans during the Second World War. In this empirical exercise, contribu…
Delineating memoryscapes: Auschwitz versus Oświęcim
This article explores how inhabitants of the town of Oświęcim/Auschwitz discursively construct two memoryscapes. On the one hand, there is the ‘living’ Oświęcim, on the other hand there is the ‘dead’ Auschwitz. Demarcations between the two are fluid and their meaning depends on the person who is defining and the audience addressed. Locals draw on these memoryscapes in creating mental borders within their physical living space, especially to creat…
Remembering Jews in Poland: The encounter between Warsaw’s Polin Museum and rural memories of Jewish absence – divergent aims and needs
The POLIN Museum runs a traveling exhibition (Museum on Wheels) which has visited places in rural Poland since 2014. The exhibition’s aim is to teach about ‘the centuries of coexistence of Jewish and Polish culture.’ The Holocaust is one of the elements presented but is not central. Our content and lexicometric analysis of interviews with visitors from five towns visited by MoW in 2015 and 2016 indicates that the needs articulated by visitors dif…
Delineating memoryscapes: Auschwitz versus Oświęcim
This article explores how inhabitants of the town of Oświęcim/Auschwitz discursively construct two memoryscapes. On the one hand, there is the ‘living’ Oświęcim, on the other hand there is the ‘dead’ Auschwitz. Demarcations between the two are fluid and their meaning depends on the person who is defining and the audience addressed. Locals draw on these memoryscapes in creating mental borders within their physical living space, especially to creat…
Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction
This article presents the results of a qualitative micro-study of a 3-minute conversation between a research participant and a researcher. The talk in the interaction concerns the past of the contemporary Polish town of Oświęcim, internationally better known as Auschwitz. Borrowing methods and concepts from interactional sociology and linguistic ethnography, the article demonstrates that people know different cultural narratives about the same pa…
Cultural memories and their re-actualizations: A narrative perspective
Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some con…
Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity
This article uses a dialogue between memory studies (MS) and ethnographic and interactional sociolinguistics (EIS) to explore the dynamics of interdisciplinarity. MS focuses on the social remembering of high-profile and often traumatic events, and this is relevant to EIS's growing interest in (in)securitization. MS is increasingly keen to explore everyday practices of remembering in interscalar analyses, and EIS' expertise in the study of mundane…
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study
In this article, I argue for memory studies as the analysis of the culturalization and entextualization of meanings attributed to past experience. The data analysed here provide us with the opportunity to theorize about the three key processes underlying such culturalization and entextualization. First, it allows us to understand how meanings attributed to the past are moved from the intimate personal realm into the cultural realm, where they can…
Introduction: Micro-memories
This editorial introduces the 10 articles collected in this special issue on micro-memories and theorizes their individual and collective contributions to the field of memory studies. In the special issue, 10 memory scholars analyse the same short strip of interaction: a 3-minute fragment of a Belgian woman talking about her deceased father’s past as a collaborator with the Germans during the Second World War. In this empirical exercise, contribu…
Sociology (7 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Field (mathematics (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)