Constructing Social Memory : Identities, Conflicts, Communities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vignola, Marta.

Contributor:

Longo, Mariano.

Bory, Stefano.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

This book is about the role of memory in contemporary social sciences and societies. The work has two parts. In the first, experts from different countries address the topic of memory from a theoretical and epistemological perspective: e.g. historical memory, biographical memory, memory as an act of creation, as well as and the narrative dimension of memory. In the second part, case studies are presented, from different countries (France, Italy, Albania, Spain, Brazil, Peru among others) referring to the relationship between memories and aspects of social life, such as migration, conflict, gender relations, journalism and public opinion, culture, collective trauma, art, collaborative archaeology, and the use of film materials. The book has both a political and a methodological intent. It underlines how the circulation of conflicting and unresolved narratives of past events may take multiple forms through a wide range of communicative, aesthetic and cultural codes. The empirical contributions deal with traumatic, silenced, stubborn, and insurgent memories, whose narration is able to have an impact on present and future. Thus, each chapter is an attempt to give back the right to speak to people and stories often placed on the margins of dominant narratives. Constructing Social Memory introduces insights and themes of study that embrace a multiplicity of approaches to memory, and makes a wholly original contribution to the topic.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Mariano Longo, Marta Vignola, Stefano Bory

Part 1

Collective memory: The social foundations of remembering

Teresa Grande, Lorenzo Migliorati

Biographical events: Laboratories of literature?

Michèle Leclerc-Olive

Individual and collective memories as narratives of identities

Mariano Longo

Watching Memory: The cinematic construction of collective memories

Stefano Bory

Notes from webground: Memory of the future and future of memory

Corrado Punzi

Part 2

Narratology of daily life: The role of images in the structuration of memory

Fabio La Rocca, Matthijs Gardenier

Places of traumatic memories: The ruins of the Bolzano lager in the core of neighborhood life

Monica Musolino

The power of traces in "Nostalgia for the Light": Memory, oblivion, and historical legibility

Daniel Melo Ribeiro, Leticia Xavier de Lemos Capanema

The (non) right to a voice: To learn about the past, can a perpetrator speak?*

James A. Dettleff

Archaeology &amp

Social Studies: An interweaving to understand shared memory

Carlo De Mitri

Stories of an amnesiac country: Memory and identity in Almudena Grande's journalistic and narrative writing

Valeria Cavazzino

Private grief, justice, and political memory: The mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina

Marta Vignola

Memory, body and politics: Weavings of the feminine between art and psychoanalysis

Ana Lúcia Mandelli de Marsillac Anelise Hauschild Mondardo Gerusa Morgana Bloss

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ISBN:

9781804417836

1804417831

OCLC:

1528957373