Research Methods for Memory Studies
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 215-246, index
Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities
ISBN 978-0-7486-4595-4 (pbk); 978-0-7486-8347-5 (pdf)
"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 focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Key Features: Investigates community remembering and memory in personal narratives Explores the localisation of official national memory Attends to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examines vernacular remembering and personalised media Focuses on the production of social memory in the media Analyses the dynamics of remembering in public confessions." (Publisher description)
SECTION ONE: MEMORY AND IDENTITY
1 Autobiographical Memory / Robyn Fivush, 13
2 Oral History and Remembering / Joanna Bornat, 29
SECTION TWO: QUALITIES OF MEMORY
3 Experience and Memory / Steven D. Brown and Paula Reavey, 45
4 Between Official and Vernacular Memory / Sabina Mihelj, 60
SECTION THREE: MEDIA AND MEMORY
5 Televised Remembering / Ann Gray, 79
6 Vernacular Remembering / Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley, 97
SECTION FOUR: LOCATIONS OF MEMORY
7 Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods / Paul Basu, 115
8 Ethnicity and Memory / Amanda Kearney, 132
SECTION FIVE: DISTURBED MEMORY
9 Painful Pasts / Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering, 151
10 Disrupted Childhoods / Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden, 167
SECTION SIX: CONFESSING AND WITNESSING
11 Apologia / Cristian Tileagã, 185
12 Testimony / Jovan Byford, 200
1 Autobiographical Memory / Robyn Fivush, 13
2 Oral History and Remembering / Joanna Bornat, 29
SECTION TWO: QUALITIES OF MEMORY
3 Experience and Memory / Steven D. Brown and Paula Reavey, 45
4 Between Official and Vernacular Memory / Sabina Mihelj, 60
SECTION THREE: MEDIA AND MEMORY
5 Televised Remembering / Ann Gray, 79
6 Vernacular Remembering / Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley, 97
SECTION FOUR: LOCATIONS OF MEMORY
7 Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods / Paul Basu, 115
8 Ethnicity and Memory / Amanda Kearney, 132
SECTION FIVE: DISTURBED MEMORY
9 Painful Pasts / Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering, 151
10 Disrupted Childhoods / Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden, 167
SECTION SIX: CONFESSING AND WITNESSING
11 Apologia / Cristian Tileagã, 185
12 Testimony / Jovan Byford, 200
