Research Methods for Memory Studies (Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities) - Hardcover

Emily Keightley; Michael Pickering

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748645969 ISBN 13: 9780748645961

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This is the first practical guide to research methods in memory studies. The 12 chapters provide students and researchers with clear descriptions of particular methods of research for: investigating community remembering and memory in personal narratives; exploring national memory and commemoration, and cultural memory and heritage; attending to disrupted memory; examining how memory is communicated in everyday life, and how it is manifested in emergent and resurgent ethnicities; focusing on the production of social memory in the media; and analysing the dynamics of remembering in public apologies, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors. It provides expert appraisals of a range of techniques and approaches in memory studies. It focuses on methods and methodology as a way to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field of 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 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 survivors Emily 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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748645969
• ISBN 13: 9780748645961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering