Memory and the Management of Change: Repossessing the Past (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) - Softcover

Book 58 of 90: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Keightley, Emily; Pickering, Michael

 
9783319864662: Memory and the Management of Change: Repossessing the Past (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
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ISBN 10: 3319864661 ISBN 13: 9783319864662
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject and key scales of remembering in vernacular milieus. The book explores the connections of memory and remembering with transformations in intimate relationships, migration and spatial mobilities, loss and bereavement involving loved ones or those with whom close affinities are felt, resulting in a volume that helps fill the gap in memory studies caused by lack of sustained ethnographic work. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the processes and practices of remembering in everyday life, it demonstrates how the mnemonic imagination is central to the management of change and transition, and how its cross-temporal interanimations of past, present and future are fostered and facilitated by the visual and sonic resources of photography and recorded music.

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About the Author

Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK, and Associate Editor of the international journal Media, Culture and Society.

Michael Pickering is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies.
 

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This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject and key scales of remembering in vernacular milieus. The book explores the connections of memory and remembering with transformations in intimate relationships, migration and spatial mobilities, loss and bereavement involving loved ones or those with whom close affinities are felt, resulting in a volume that helps fill the gap in memory studies caused by lack of sustained ethnographic work. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the processes and practices of remembering in everyday life, it demonstrates how the mnemonic imagination is central to the management of change and transition, and how its cross-temporal interanimations of past, present and future are fostered and facilitated by the visual and sonic resources of photography and recorded music.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3319864661
ISBN 13 
9783319864662
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
237

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