Research Methods for Memory Studies by Emily Keightley (English) Hardcover Book

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The first practical guide to research methods in memory studies. This book provides expert appraisals of a range of techniques and approaches in memory studies, and focuses on methods and methodology as a way to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.

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The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the fieldThis 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, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Key Features:Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narrativesExploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritageAttending to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicitiesFocusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memoryAnalysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors

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The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field of memory studiesThis 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 of the book include:* Investigates community remembering and memory in personal narratives* Explores the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage* Attends to painful pasts and disrupted memory* Examines how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities* Focusses on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory* Analyses the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivorsEmily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. She has published the edited collection Time, Media and Modernity (2012) and has co-authored The Mnemonic Imagination (2012) with Michael Pickering. She is assistant editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.Michael Pickering also teaches in the social sciences at Loughborough University. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007, co-written with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (2009, co-edited with Sharon Lockyer); Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010), and Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013, co-written with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson).

Author Biography

Dr Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Professor Michael Pickering teaches in the Social Sciences at Loughborough University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes; Section One: Memory and Identity; 1. Autobiographical Memory; 2. Oral History and Remembering; Section Two: Qualities of Memory; 3. Experience and Memory; 4. Between Official and Vernacular Remembering; Section Three: Media and Memory; 5. Televised Remembering; 6. Vernacular Remembering; Section Four: Locations of Memory; 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods; 8. Ethnicity and Memory; Section Five: Disturbed Memory; 9. Painful Pasts; 10. Disrupted Childhoods; Section Six: Confessing and Witnessing; 11. Apologia; 12. Testimony.

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The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field 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, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Key Features: Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narratives Exploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage Attending to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities Focusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory Analysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors

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The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field

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The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in memory studies 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

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This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives, while also focusing on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Research methodologies include: Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narratives Exploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage Attending to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities Focusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory Analysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors

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Research Methods; Memory Studies; Literary and Cultural Studies; Communication studies; Sociology and Anthropology; Social and Cultural history; Oral History; Social Psychology; Discourse studies.

Details ISBN0748645969 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Series Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities Year 2013 ISBN-10 0748645969 ISBN-13 9780748645961 Format Hardcover Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Michael Pickering DEWEY 153.12 Publication Date 2013-05-30 Author Michael Pickering Media Book Short Title RESEARCH METHODS FOR MEMORY ST Language English UK Release Date 2013-05-30 NZ Release Date 2013-05-30 Audience General AU Release Date 2013-09-09 Pages 264 Alternative 9780748645954 Illustrations 4 black and white illustrations We've got this

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