Creating a new discipline of memory studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry L Roediger (0000-0002-3314-2895, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author), J V Wertsch (0000-0001-9477-0708, Washington University in St. Louis) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-22 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698007083884 |
| OpenAlex | W2101537567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
| References cited | 14 |
The multidisciplinary field of memory studies combines intellectual strands from many domains, including (but not limited to) anthropology, education, literature, history, philosophy, psychology and sociology. Our article has four parts. We first consider definitions of memory and note that the single term itself is not particularly useful. Rather, scholars must specify the type or variety of memory under investigation. Second, we consider the breadth of memory studies and briefly survey disciplines in addition to those listed above that may prove interested parties to the new field. Third, we argue that the field of memory studies is just emerging, and that its proper development will require creation of a systematic set of methodological tools (qualitative and quantitative) that may be borrowed from various social sciences and adapted to new purposes. Finally, we describe two undergraduate programs in memory studies that have been developed at Washington University in St. Louis, USA and that might be used as models for similar programs
Cognitive science · Data science · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Interdisciplinarity · Multidisciplinary approach · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory Processes and Influences · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Knowing History in Schools
Introduction
The Ruptured Battlefield
Lyric Oblivion
Memory, the Orators, and the Public in Fourth-century bc Athens
Economies of Memory in Greek Tragedy
Plotinus on Memory, Recollection and Discursive Thought
The Place and Nature of Memory in Greek Historiography
The Greek Philosophers on How to Memorise – and Learn
Aristophanes and his Muses, or Memory in a Comic Key
Plotinus
Hellenistic Cultural Memory
Claudius Aelianus
Is Memory of the Past?
Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
Social Remembering and Organizational Memory
Collective memory
Amnesiology
A right to memory and communication policy
The politico-cultural roots of Bangladesh
Como os Jogadores recordam? A Etnografia digital e a história cultural da comunidade de jogadores do MMORPG City of Heroes
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Politics of memory
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Introduction
Walking the stories of colonial ghosts
Political identity and the perceived significance of public events among middle-aged adults in Turkey
(Childhood) Memories at the Intersection of Coloniality and Decoloniality
Tribal Studies
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Radical War
Greek Memories
Remembering the unseen
Religious Memory in a Changing Society
Cultural heritage and memory
Halbwachs no Hollodeck
The quotation marks have a certain importance
Revisiting memoricide
Memory studies
Reclaimed narratives
Collective future thought
Digital productions in the 50 years of the 1964’s coup d’état
The fight over the Marian Column and a religious narrative template in a society of unbelievers
Let me tell you what we already know”
Narrative, Ontological Security, and Foreign Policy Change
Historical memory education for peace and justice
Back to Representations
Beyond History and Memory
Halbwachs' studies in collective memory
Memorless”
An Ontology of Semiotic Activity and Epistemic Figuration of Heritage, Memory and Identity Practices on Social Network Sites
DNA and cultures of remembrance
Mediation of Memory
From Dynasty to Songs of Praise
Remembering research
Media, Memory, Metaphor
Reliving past experience
Archaeology, Memory and Oral Tradition
Education as site of memory
Introduction
Growing Up White and Female During the American Great Depression
Heroic Cut for the European Suit
Port infrastructures and the making of historical time in the Horn of Africa
Narrativas turísticas de paisagens escravistas
Humiliated silence multiculturalism, blame and the trope of 'moving on
Echoes from the Past
Intelligence Studies, Academia and Professionalization
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The ‘Palestine poster’ and everyday memoricide
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Remember Without Hate’
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Documents' memories
Remembering (in) the past perfect
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The logic of memory
Technologies of memory
Memorializing the unspectacular
Fixing the floating gap
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Collective memories
Amnesiology
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The relational making of people and place
Collective memory and reputational politics of national heroes and villains
Reflections on intersections between cognitive and social psychology
Themes for future research on memory, mind and media
Finlandised electobots and the distortion of collective political memory
Muslim youth collective amnesia of US government-inflicted violence against Muslims in the War on Terror
The Generational Effects on Collective Memories in the Context of International Migration
Unveiling social identification, shared social identity, and collective memory as collective resilience factors
The Post-Pandemic World
Collective memory and identity of a rebranded 'Chinatown
Réflexion sur l'institutionnalisation récente des memory studies
Repatriates or Refugees? Narrating the Loss of Transnational Community
| Unique citing works | 98 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 97 |