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Memory Studies

Memory Studies


eISSN: 17506999 | ISSN: 17506980 | Current volume: 17 | Current issue: 4 Frequency: Bi-monthly

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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

 

Editor-in-Chief
Prof Andrew Hoskins University of Glasgow, UK
Editors
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
Book Review Editors
Amy Sodaro Borough Manhattan Community College, USA
Prof Jarula M. I. Wegner Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
Editorial Board
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
Piotr M. Szpunar University at Albany, USA
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
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