The study of memory sites through a Dialogical Accompaniment Interactive Group Method

A Research Note

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2403580
AutoresAdriana Espinoza (0009-0005-9229-6690, University of Chile), Adriana E Espinoza (University of Chile), Isabel Piper-Shafir (0000-0001-6795-2573, University of Chile), Isabel Piper (University of Chile), Roberto A Fernández (0000-0003-4459-5977, University of Chile), Roberto Augusto Castellanos Fernandez (University of Chile)
Ano2014
Volume14
Fascículo6
Páginas712-728
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468794113483301
OpenAlexW2075044219
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas14

Collective memory studies have been growing in production of knowledge, but conceptual and methodological advances remain scarce. This research note contributes by presenting an innovative and interactive group method that seeks to analyze how collective memories are constructed by different generations in their interactions with four memory sites related to the Military Dictatorship in Chile. The theoretical and methodological conceptualizations that led to the proposed method are discussed. The method includes a dialogical accompaniment and triangular groups that enable the study of people's interactions at and with memory sites. Methodological challenges encountered are discussed, as well as interesting findings regarding the construction of generational memories. The complexity of studying collective memory processes and generational discourse at memory sites in countries with traumatic pasts like Chile demands the construction of innovative methods. Researchers designing memory studies should dare taking methodological designs a step forward in order to generate challenging new methods

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Collective memory · Dialogical self · Dictatorship · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Memory, violence, and history · Psychology · Social Psychology