An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.[...]
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,[...]
Discussions of the ways rapidly developing media and communications technologies shape and intervene in our experiences of time in modernity increasingly feature in both popular discourse and academic research. Investigations of these changes often emphasise the role of media in compressing time and[...]