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Memory and methodology /

The increasing centrality of memory to work being done across a wide range of disciplines has brought along with it vexed questions and far-reaching changes in the way knowledge is pursued. This timely collection provides a forum for demonstrating how various disciplines are addressing these concern...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Radstone, Susannah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Working with Memory: an Introduction; Memory's Ups and Downs; Memory in the Academy; Doing Memory Work; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Conceptualising Memory; 1. Digital Memory and the Problem of Forgetting; The History of Digital Memory and the Problem of Forgetting; Bush's Memex Machine; The Legacy of the Memex; Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents; Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis; Bibliography; 2. Places, Politics and the Archiving of Contemporary Memory.
  • The Functional Transformation of Memory: From Political to Cultural ConsensusThe Historical Present: From Historical to Social Consciousness; Archival Memory: From Historical to Historiographical Consciousness; Rewriting French History; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Reinscriptions: Commemoration, Restoration and the Interpersonal Transmission of Histories and Memories under Modern States in Asia and Europe; Focus on Cataclysmic Events; Links between the Ordinary and the Extraordinary; Erased and New Memory
  • Rumour, Terror, Demonisation; Memory and Transmission: Archive.
  • Method: Comparative Case StudiesComparison; Selection; Drawing Boundaries; Transcripts; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Screening Trauma: Forrest Gump, Film and Memory; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Memory/Subjectivity/Culture; 5. Memory, Subjectivity and Intimacy: the Historical Formation of the Modern Self and the Writing of Female Autobiography; The Modern Subject: Memory, Intimacy and 'Becoming'; Mobile Subjectivity: City, Home, Body as the Space of Exile; Tracing Subjectivity: Migrancy and Corporeal Memory; Notes; Bibliography.
  • 6. Children: Memories, Fantasies and Narratives: From Dilemma to ComplexityMemory: Remembering and Forgetting; The Family Romance; An Account of the Pilot Study; From Being at a Loss to Becoming Textured; Family Narratives and Children's Autobiography; Memory, Fantasy and Place; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; 7. Memory Work: the Key to Women's Anxiety; Preliminary Conclusion; Postscript on Memory Work as Sociological Method; Notes; Bibliography; 8. A Journey Through Memory; Revisionist Autobiography, Visual Autobiography, and Memory Work; Some Theses on Memory; Notes; Bibliography.
  • 9. Method in our Madness: Identity and Power in a Memory Work MethodWhat's the Method?; In-Disciplinary Concerns: Why We Adopted Memory Work; Adopting the Method; Choosing the Theme; Writing the Stories: Reviewing, Selecting, Remembering and Writing; Analysing the Stories; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.