Abstract
This valuable collection of essays provides a set of original contributions outlining major issues in the field of memory studies and a number of case studies illustrating particular aspects of it. It shows up the wide diversity of approach and perspective characterising the field, along with the interdisciplinary dynamic that helps fuel and foster it. This book deals broadly with the sociological, psychological, historical and cultural vantages from which memory is viewed; the varied collective practices of commemorating, representing and forgetting the past; memory’s relation to public discourse; technologies of memory and its pervasive forms of mediation; the legacies of traumatic events related to terror, violence and disaster; and memory work that emerges from ecosystems and bodies. The various sections of this book are devoted to the different turns and developments within memory studies, the cultural artefacts and social practices of collective memory, and the relations between public and personal pasta in public memory. This is another important handbook devoted to the study of memory and memory phenomena – previous ones include The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies, The Companion to Cultural Memory Studies and The Oxford Handbook of Memory – and both students and researchers will find it a significant resource.