Memory Studies
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Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. It affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today.
Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourses on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
Despite the epistemological and causal significance attributed to memory in the study of such questions as the formation of personal and public identity, culture and politics, and social communities, there remains dramatic divergence on the basic concepts and methods of the area.
The field mobilises scholarship driven by problem or topic, rather than by singular method or tradition. We seek papers that highlight and deliberately negotiate divergence in backgrounds and assumptions, as opposed to those that avoid these issues.
Crucially, we welcome submissions which speak to a range of participants across memory studies.
Areas of dialogue and debate will include:
- Everyday remembering
- Collective, public, social and shared memory
- Biography and history
- Schema and narrative
- The ethics of remembering and forgetting
- Commemoration and remembrance
- Organic and artificial memory
- Media and mechanisms
- Documentation and archive
- Holocaust memory
- Cosmopolitanism and globalization
- Cultural memory and heritage
- Catastrophe and trauma
- Nation and nostalgia
- Oral history and the culture of the witness
- Memory and the politics of identity
Books for Review
Copies of books for review should be sent to:
Amy Sodaro
Borough of Manhattan Community College - Social Sciences
199 Chambers Street
N668 New York, NY 10007 USA
Prof. Dr. Jarula M. I. Wegner,
Dong 5-101, School of International Studies,
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China (Postcode: 310058)
Email: memorystudiesbookreviews@gmail.com
Electronic Access:
Memory Studies is now available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
Memory Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal. Memory Studies affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today.
Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourse on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
Despite the epistemological and causal significance attributed to memory in the study of such questions as the formation of personal and public identity, culture and politics, and social communities, there remains dramatic divergence on the basic concepts and methods of the area.
The field mobilises scholarship driven by problem or topic, rather than by singular method or tradition. We seek papers that highlight and deliberately negotiate divergence in backgrounds and assumptions, as opposed to those that avoid these issues.
Crucially, we welcome submissions which speak to a range of participants across memory studies. As a way to facilitate/develop dialogues and communication across a range of disciplines, we also welcome overviews of current thinking or perspectives on particular aspects of memory.
Areas of dialogue and debate include:
- Everyday remembering
- Collective, public, social and shared memory
- Biography and history
- Schema and narrative
- The ethics of remembering and forgetting
- Phenomenology of memory
- Commemoration and remembrance
- Organic and artificial memory
- Media and mechanisms
- Documentation and archive
- Holocaust memory
- Cosmopolitanism and globalization
- Cultural memory and heritage
- Memory and the creative arts
- Memory in cognitive theory
- Cognition and culture
- Catastrophe and trauma
- Nation and nostalgia
- Oral history and the culture of the witness
- Social cognition and memory
- Memory and the politics of identity
- Cultural neuroscience and memory
- Philosophy of memory
| Prof Andrew Hoskins | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Prof Steven D. Brown | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Dr Andrea Hajek | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Prof Wulf Kansteiner | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Dr Amy Sodaro | Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, USA |
| Amy Sodaro Borough | Manhattan Community College, USA |
| Prof Jarula M. I. Wegner | Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China |
| Paloma Aguilar | UNED, Spain |
| Matthew Allen | University of Leicester, UK |
| Aleida Asmann | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Jan Asmann | Universität Konstanz, Germany |
| Mieke Bal | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Suzanne Bardgett | Imperial War Museum London, UK |
| Amanda Barnier | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Rosmarie Beier-de Haan | Deutsches Historisches Museum, Germany |
| Andrew Blaikie | University of Aberdeen, UK |
| Dr Lucy Bond | University of Westminster, UK |
| Jerome Bourdon | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Geoffrey C Bowker | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Pascal Boyer | Washington University in St Louis, USA |
| Michael Brennan | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| John D. Brewer | Aberdeen University, UK |
| Mary Carruthers | New York University, USA |
| Martin Conboy | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Paul Connerton | Cambridge University, UK |
| Dr Stef Craps | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Stuart Croft | University of Warwick, UK |
| Rick Crownshaw | Goldsmiths College, UK |
| Erika Doss | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Douwe Draaisma | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Jenny Edkins | Aberystwyth University, UK |
| Astrid Erll | Bergische Universität, Germany |
| Gary Alan Fine | Northwestern University |
| Robyn Fivush | Emory University, USA |
| Saul Friedländer | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Joanne Garde-Hansen | University of Warwick, UK |
| Sarah Gensburger | CNRS-French National Center for Scientific Research |
| Paul Grainge | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Ann Gray | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Patrick Hagopian | Lancaster University, UK |
| Ann Heilmann | University of Hull, UK |
| Marianne Hirsch | New York University, USA |
| William Hirst | New School for Social Research, USA |
| Katharine Hodgkin | University of East London, UK |
| Amy Holdsworth | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Andreas Huyssen | Columbia University, USA |
| Gregory V Jones | University of Warwick, UK |
| Carolyn Kitch | Temple University, USA |
| Annette Kuhn | Lancaster University, UK |
| Alison Landsberg | George Mason University, USA |
| Daniel Levy | State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA |
| Nuria Lorenzo-Dus | Swansea University, UK |
| Peter Lunt | University of Leicester, UK |
| Sharon Macdonald | Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany |
| Dr Peter Manning | University of Bath, UK |
| Maryanne Martin | Oxford University, UK |
| Rhiannon Mason | University of Newcastle, UK |
| Scott McQuire | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Kourken Michaelian | University of Otago, New Zealand |
| Barbara Misztal | University of Leicester, UK |
| A. Dirk Moses | The City College of New York, USA |
| Katharina Niemeyer | University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada |
| Jeffrey Olick | University of Virginia, USA |
| Michael Pickering | Loughborough University, UK |
| Martin Pogacar | Research centre of the Slovenian Academy of sciences and arts |
| Wendy Pullan | Cambridge University, UK |
| Susannah Radstone | University of East London, UK |
| Dr Jessica Rapson | King’s College London, UK |
| Anna Reading | King's College London, UK |
| Prof. Paula Reavey | London South Bank University, UK |
| Elaine Reese | University of Otago, New Zealand |
| Ann Rigney | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Michael Rothberg | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| David C Rubin | Duke University, USA |
| Bill Schwarz | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Liz Stanley | Manchester University, UK |
| Kate Stevens | Western Sydney University, Australia |
| Charles Stone | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA |
| Marita Sturken | New York University, USA |
| John Sutton | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Diana Taylor | New York University, USA |
| Richard Terdiman | University of California, Santa Cruz, USA |
| Karen Till | Maynooth University, Ireland |
| José Van Dijck | University of Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Kimberley Wade | Warwick University, UK |
| Qi Wang | Cornell University, USA |
| Harald Welzer | Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Germany |
| James V Wertsch | Washington University, USA |
| Jay Winter | Association for Psychological Science, USA |
| James E Young | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Barbie Zelizer | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Eviatar Zerubavel | Rutgers University, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.