Research Methods for Memory Studies

ISBN-13: 9780748645961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str.

Emily Keightley;Michael Pickering

Opis

The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field of memory studiesThis 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.

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Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes – Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section One: Memory and Identity; 1. Autobiographical Memory – Robyn Fivush; 2. Oral History and Remembering – Joanna Bornat; Section Two: Qualities of Memory; 3. Experience and Memory – Steve Brown and Paula Reavey; 4. Between Official and Vernacular Remembering – Sabina Mihelj; Section Three: Media and Memory; 5. Televised Remembering – Ann Gray; 6. Vernacular Remembering – Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section Four: Locations of Memory; 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods – Paul Basu; 8. Ethnicity and Memory – Amanda Kearney; Section Five: Disturbed Memory; 9. Painful Pasts – Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering; 10. Disrupted Childhoods – Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden; Section Six: Confessing and Witnessing; 11. Apologia – Cristean Tileaga; 12. Testimony – Jovan Byford; Conclusion - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Further Reading; Bibliography.