Emily Keightley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 73196 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emily Keightley |
| PRENOMES | Emily |
| SOBRENOME | Keightley |
| ASSINATURA | KEIGHTLEY E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5276-9506 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 436 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Researching postcolonial memory
This article sets out methodological principles for conducting postcolonial memory studies research. Pasts associated with colonialism and their contemporary social articulation can be empirically challenging for several reasons, including their uncertain, often inarticulable, contradictory, and painful nature, which materialise in social research encounters. To navigate such challenges, we argue for the value and application of creative methodol…
Remembering voices
This article provides a critical case study of the singing of the Kazi Nazrul Islam song ‘Karar O’ Lohou Kapat’ (Break Down the Iron Doors), by members of the Bangladeshi cultural organisation Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, in Tower Hamlets London, in 2022, 100 years after the song was originally penned, to analyse the affect of memories mobilised through singing, and their relationship to diasporic identity formation. We synthesise perspectives from po…
AI, agency, and power geometries
One of the paradoxes of AI is that it is a global phenomenon, but it is always situated in specific local contexts and cultures. While approaches that aim to study local cultures of AI are important, there is the risk of neglecting their insertion within the broader geographies and politics of AI. As a response to this challenge, this article proposes a pathway to apply the concept of power geometries, originally proposed by feminist geographer D…
Partition at 75
In 2017, the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India was widely discussed in the UK, not only within academic and cultural circles, but also in popular culture. Five years later, on the 75th anniversary of Partition, the scholarly, cultural and community interest in the events of 1947 intersected with the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the South Asian population from Uganda, and the 70th anniversary of the L…
Introduction - Partition and the South Asian diaspora
This short piece introduces the special issue ‘Partition and the South Asian diaspora: exploring (inherited) memories and creative practices of remembering’. This issue was conceived at the juncture of intersecting commemorations of key historical events–1947 Partition of British India, 1971 Bangladesh independence and 1972 exodus from Uganda–in South Asia and its diasporas. By bringing together articles focused on practices of commemorating thes…
Dancing through time
This article responds to an absence of memory studies research methodologies for exploring embodied memories, including its form and content, the lived practices it involves, and its embeddedness in wider socio-political discourses. While conceptualisations of embodiment are central in the field of memory studies, its methodological consequences remain under-developed. We are proposing dance-based methods as having significant potential to addres…
Constructions of self and the pursuit of ‘authenticity’ in women’s magazines
This article examines discourses of authenticity embedded in European popular culture based on an empirical study of British and Greek women’s magazines. After a quantitative content analysis of 575 articles published in Greek and British editions of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire during 2012–2016, we conducted a qualitative repertoire analysis of 80 articles and identified a shared discursive repertoire, that of women’s ‘authentic self’. Our anal…
Rethinking technologies of remembering for a postcolonial world
This article sets out some of the analytical moves that are necessary to developing a distinctive area of research called postcolonial memory studies. A key barrier to synthesising insights from postcolonial and memory studies has been a reductive approach to analogue and digital technologies which operate as vehicles for memory. Three analytical moves are needed to decentre, or at the very least de-naturalise the technological narratives and eco…
Migration, Arts and the Negotiation of Belonging
This article analyses the engagement in cultural and creative practices of people of South Asian heritage in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London and in Loughborough, East Midlands. Both locations are home to a number of community groups engaged in creative and cultural activities and, by focusing on selected case studies, we argue that the arts play a key role in maintaining and claiming South Asian heritage/s in Britain. Comparing these two s…
Televising the Partition of British India
2017 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of colonial rule in British India and of the division of the country into the two independent states of India and Pakistan. To commemorate the event, in August 2017, the BBC broadcast a series of programmes focused specifically on Partition. Focusing on My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947, this article analyses the programme’s structure and rhetorical strategies, with particular reference to its rep…
Media and time
Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Introduction
As modalidades da nostalgia
A nostalgia tem sido vista como o oposto conceitual do progresso, contra o qual é vista negativamente como reacionária, sentimental ou melancólica. Foi visto como um recuo derrotista do presente e evidência de perda de fé no futuro. A nostalgia é certamente uma resposta à experiência de perda endêmica na modernidade e na modernidade tardia, mas os autores argumentam que ela tem inúmeras manifestações e não pode ser reduzida a uma definição singul…
The commodification of time and memory
This article addresses the lack of analysis of the specific ways in which the online environment configures the relationship between the processual dynamics of nostalgia which allow for both creative and conservative modes of identification and the commercial exploitation and commodification of the nostalgia produced and articulated in online communities. We introduce an empirical case study of one of the companies operating on Facebook as a nost…
The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection
This editorial introduces a themed section aimed to spark further reflections on the limits and boundaries of disconnection as a form of critique, activism and response to the pervasiveness of digital devices, platforms, and infrastructures. We outline two key limits in current thinking about disconnection: first, the universalist discourse of disconnection, which contrasts with the reality of a profound inequality of access to both connection an…
Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Swede…
Tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters
The turn towards transnational memory has largely focused on particular sites and modes of remembering, focusing on the creation of memories between and beyond nation-states in institutional politics, the media, migration and to a lesser degree social movements. Despite its significance for encountering other people’s past, international tourism remains under-examined in the scholarship due to a focus on macro-developments, a polarisation along a…
The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience
Drawing on our concept of the mnemonic imagination, this chapter shows how the past is reactivated and pieced together into a relatively coherent narrative in the interests of identity and the effective management of change. In forming the synthetic hub of remembering and imagining, the mnemonic imagination is mobilized in bringing past, present, and future into meaningful correspondence. This chapter illustrates how this happens via an ethnograp…
The intermediate time of news consumption
Many accounts of contemporary mediated communication of various kinds emphasise speed, immediacy and simultaneity as overriding temporal characteristics, and accounts of journalism are no exception. Acceleration in journalistic practice and the associated changes in news content and its communication have a variety of consequences. In the most extreme accounts, this produces ever-shallower news content while the immediacy of its delivery collapse…
Photography, Music and Memory
This is the introduction to the book Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9781137441201
Photography, Music and Memory
Pieces of the Past
Throughout this book we have explored how certain pieces of the past — personally made or inherited photographs, and recorded songs and music trailing their various associations of past times — are drawn upon and given meaning, value and significance in everyday life. These pieces of the past do not exist as isolated fragments somehow surviving over time, and do not operate on their own with no reference to each other. As mnemonic resources, they…
Conclusion
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond Covid-19
A few years after the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, discussions surrounding its impact have become noticeably less frequent within communication and media research. While the pandemic no longer occupies the central place it once held in academic discourse and public debate, it is now more crucial than ever to consider how this unprecedented global event has shaped our societies, as well as its lasting implications for communication an…
The Modalities of Nostalgia
Nostalgia has been viewed as the conceptual opposite of progress, against which it is negatively viewed as reactionary, sentimental or melancholic. It has been seen as a defeatist retreat from the present, and evidence of loss of faith in the future. Nostalgia is certainly a response to the experience of loss endemic in modernity and late modernity, but the authors argue that it has numerous manifestations and cannot be reduced to a singular or a…
From immediacy to intermediacy
This article argues that claims of time in late-modernity collapsing or becoming irretrievably accelerated do not sufficiently account for the range of experiences of time that are supported in a media-saturated culture. Achieving this requires an empirical and conceptual shift. Research on the domestication of media technologies provides an initial empirical framework for this kind of exploration, but as well as rhythmic practices and processes …
Remembering research
This article examines the conceptualisation and use of memory in the social sciences, both as a methodological tool and as an object of research. The article situates memory as a vast potential resource for the social sciences in the exploration of relations between public and private life, agency and power, and the past, present and future. It goes on to recognise that the methodological issues surrounding the use of memory have, with few except…
Mediated mobilities
In this article we introduce the themed issue ‘Mediated Mobilities’. We begin by articulating some of the potential relationships between media and mobility critically addressing the key conceptual distinctions that underpin them and the methodological demands placed on media studies when exploring the complex ways in which mobility is embedded in contemporary media ecologies. In the first instance we consider precisely what is meant by mobility,…
Technologies of memory
This article demonstrates the need always to consider change against continuity and continuity against change in the analysis of mnemonic technologies. It does so by exploring what has happened in the move from analogue to digital photography, looking, in particular, at how this has affected the meanings of personal photographs and the practices of remembering associated with them. In contrast with technologically determinist perspectives which h…
Communities of memory and the problem of transmission
In this article we explore the issue of memory transmission by considering it along the two temporal planes on which it occurs: vertically, through time; and horizontally, in time. It is because we regard memory transmission as involving the mutual interaction of these two planes that we introduce the concept of the mnemonic imagination. The value of the concept is that it enables us to see, inter alia, how communities of memory emerge. Our route…
Time, Media and Modernity
A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is constr
For the record
Phonography and photography have been extensively discussed and analysed, but their complementary features as media of communication have received relatively little attention. Chief among these is the way in which, as technologies of recording, preservation and retrieval, they have affected forms of social remembering and orientations to historical time. Over the last century and more, phonograph music and photographic images have acquired strong…
The commodification of time and memory
This article addresses the lack of analysis of the specific ways in which the online environment configures the relationship between the processual dynamics of nostalgia which allow for both creative and conservative modes of identification and the commercial exploitation and commodification of the nostalgia produced and articulated in online communities. We introduce an empirical case study of one of the companies operating on Facebook as a nost…
Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Swede…
The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection
This editorial introduces a themed section aimed to spark further reflections on the limits and boundaries of disconnection as a form of critique, activism and response to the pervasiveness of digital devices, platforms, and infrastructures. We outline two key limits in current thinking about disconnection: first, the universalist discourse of disconnection, which contrasts with the reality of a profound inequality of access to both connection an…
The self-interview
This article presents the new method of self-interviewing as an empirical tool specifically for use in memory studies research. The article traces some of the empirical limitations specific to the field of memory studies and reviews the existing tools used in this area. It particularly focuses on some of the limitations of qualitative interviewing, the memory work method and diary methods in generating data on the processes of vernacular remember…
The intermediate time of news consumption
Many accounts of contemporary mediated communication of various kinds emphasise speed, immediacy and simultaneity as overriding temporal characteristics, and accounts of journalism are no exception. Acceleration in journalistic practice and the associated changes in news content and its communication have a variety of consequences. In the most extreme accounts, this produces ever-shallower news content while the immediacy of its delivery collapse…
Tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters
The turn towards transnational memory has largely focused on particular sites and modes of remembering, focusing on the creation of memories between and beyond nation-states in institutional politics, the media, migration and to a lesser degree social movements. Despite its significance for encountering other people’s past, international tourism remains under-examined in the scholarship due to a focus on macro-developments, a polarisation along a…
AI, agency, and power geometries
One of the paradoxes of AI is that it is a global phenomenon, but it is always situated in specific local contexts and cultures. While approaches that aim to study local cultures of AI are important, there is the risk of neglecting their insertion within the broader geographies and politics of AI. As a response to this challenge, this article proposes a pathway to apply the concept of power geometries, originally proposed by feminist geographer D…
Digital media – social memory
Dancing through time
This article responds to an absence of memory studies research methodologies for exploring embodied memories, including its form and content, the lived practices it involves, and its embeddedness in wider socio-political discourses. While conceptualisations of embodiment are central in the field of memory studies, its methodological consequences remain under-developed. We are proposing dance-based methods as having significant potential to addres…
Echoes and Reverberations
Photographic images and popular songs are commonly used as ways of representing or evoking the past. They occur routinely in various media, at times singly, at others in conjunction with each other
Trauma, discourse and communicative limits
Trauma is a term that is widely used in memory studies, along with a number of other academic fields and disciplines. This article takes issue with its loose and indiscriminate application. Such application generates an unresolved paradox: trauma is associated with memories of events that are uncontrollable, yet large-scale commemorative practices or processes of social reconciliation assume that experiences of these are controllable, amenable to…
Remembering voices
This article provides a critical case study of the singing of the Kazi Nazrul Islam song ‘Karar O’ Lohou Kapat’ (Break Down the Iron Doors), by members of the Bangladeshi cultural organisation Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, in Tower Hamlets London, in 2022, 100 years after the song was originally penned, to analyse the affect of memories mobilised through singing, and their relationship to diasporic identity formation. We synthesise perspectives from po…
Rethinking technologies of remembering for a postcolonial world
This article sets out some of the analytical moves that are necessary to developing a distinctive area of research called postcolonial memory studies. A key barrier to synthesising insights from postcolonial and memory studies has been a reductive approach to analogue and digital technologies which operate as vehicles for memory. Three analytical moves are needed to decentre, or at the very least de-naturalise the technological narratives and eco…
From Dynasty to Songs of Praise
Despite detailed interrogations of the uses of media technologies and texts with overtly mnemonic functions in memory studies, there remains a limited engagement with the significance of television and everyday televisual texts in practices of remembering from specific social locations in the interests of performing and constructing particular social identities. Often, programming which refers to the past is considered from a textual rather than …
For the record
Phonography and photography have been extensively discussed and analysed, but their complementary features as media of communication have received relatively little attention. Chief among these is the way in which, as technologies of recording, preservation and retrieval, they have affected forms of social remembering and orientations to historical time. Over the last century and more, phonograph music and photographic images have acquired strong…
The Modalities of Nostalgia
Nostalgia has been viewed as the conceptual opposite of progress, against which it is negatively viewed as reactionary, sentimental or melancholic. It has been seen as a defeatist retreat from the present, and evidence of loss of faith in the future. Nostalgia is certainly a response to the experience of loss endemic in modernity and late modernity, but the authors argue that it has numerous manifestations and cannot be reduced to a singular or a…
Echoes and Reverberations
Photographic images and popular songs are commonly used as ways of representing or evoking the past. They occur routinely in various media, at times singly, at others in conjunction with each other
Engaging with Memory
Remembering research
This article examines the conceptualisation and use of memory in the social sciences, both as a methodological tool and as an object of research. The article situates memory as a vast potential resource for the social sciences in the exploration of relations between public and private life, agency and power, and the past, present and future. It goes on to recognise that the methodological issues surrounding the use of memory have, with few except…
Trauma, discourse and communicative limits
Trauma is a term that is widely used in memory studies, along with a number of other academic fields and disciplines. This article takes issue with its loose and indiscriminate application. Such application generates an unresolved paradox: trauma is associated with memories of events that are uncontrollable, yet large-scale commemorative practices or processes of social reconciliation assume that experiences of these are controllable, amenable to…
Quantitative Audience Research
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Twin Pillars The Early Years of Quantitative Audience Research The Partial Death of the Dominant Paradigm A Strange Twist ... Conclusion: The Compatibility Thesis References
Les deux voies du passé
L’occasion perdue est un motif courant dans les représentations littéraires et populaires qui accompagnent le ressouvenir. Traditionnellement, les regrets du « chemin qui n’a pas été pris » jettent un éclairage nostalgique sur la vie. Mais cela n’est qu’un des aspects de l’occasion perdue. Jusqu’ici, il semble qu’on ait négligé la façon dont ce motif apparaît dans les récits quotidiens, comment il est conçu et valorisé, comment il entre en relati…
From Dynasty to Songs of Praise
Despite detailed interrogations of the uses of media technologies and texts with overtly mnemonic functions in memory studies, there remains a limited engagement with the significance of television and everyday televisual texts in practices of remembering from specific social locations in the interests of performing and constructing particular social identities. Often, programming which refers to the past is considered from a textual rather than …
Conclusion
Time in late modernity has conventionally been understood as a ‘function of speed’,and many convincing histories of the emergence of speed as a dominating logic have been produced. Yet time as it is lived seems to defy this unitary logic. For example, Merleau-Ponty’s account of present time seems to stand in a somewhat awkward relation to the idea of time as either fast or slow, rapid or languid, accelerating or decelerating. These keywords were …
The Mnemonic Imagination
An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploi
Introduction
In February 2011 the Egyptian political activist and regional marketing manager for Google, Wael Ghonim, was interviewed on CNN about the success of the revolutionary uprising in Egypt and the subsequent removal of president Hosni Mubharak from power
The self-interview
This article presents the new method of self-interviewing as an empirical tool specifically for use in memory studies research. The article traces some of the empirical limitations specific to the field of memory studies and reviews the existing tools used in this area. It particularly focuses on some of the limitations of qualitative interviewing, the memory work method and diary methods in generating data on the processes of vernacular remember…
Tabloid journalism
Time, Media and Modernity
A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is constr
Research Methods for Memory Studies
The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in memory studies GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645954','ISBN:9780748645961','ISBN:9780748683475']); This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuse…
Research Methods for Memory Studies
Chapter 9. Painful Pasts
Communities of memory and the problem of transmission
In this article we explore the issue of memory transmission by considering it along the two temporal planes on which it occurs: vertically, through time; and horizontally, in time. It is because we regard memory transmission as involving the mutual interaction of these two planes that we introduce the concept of the mnemonic imagination. The value of the concept is that it enables us to see, inter alia, how communities of memory emerge. Our route…
Time on TV
Crosscurrents
From immediacy to intermediacy
This article argues that claims of time in late-modernity collapsing or becoming irretrievably accelerated do not sufficiently account for the range of experiences of time that are supported in a media-saturated culture. Achieving this requires an empirical and conceptual shift. Research on the domestication of media technologies provides an initial empirical framework for this kind of exploration, but as well as rhythmic practices and processes …
Conclusion
Technologies of memory
This article demonstrates the need always to consider change against continuity and continuity against change in the analysis of mnemonic technologies. It does so by exploring what has happened in the move from analogue to digital photography, looking, in particular, at how this has affected the meanings of personal photographs and the practices of remembering associated with them. In contrast with technologically determinist perspectives which h…
Digital media – social memory
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