22 April 2009

Studies in collective memory

The following schema provides a clear picture of the main approaches to collective memory studies, so far.



I believe that there will be many more, so if you are working with some approach which it is not shown in the schema, please let me know.

Comments are very welcome!

3 comments:

Memory and oblivion said...

Very interesting scheme. Thank you!
As for additional approaches, than, perhaps, I would mention history - and, especially, social history. For example, Nora's works, in my opinion, are rather close to this branch of science.

Memory and oblivion said...

Very interesting scheme. Thank you!
As for additional approaches, than, perhaps, I would mention history - and, especially, social history. For example, Nora's works, in my opinion, are rather close to this branch of science.

Marie-Louise said...

Rhetorical studies (as an area of communication) also have a growing concern with collective memory (started in the 80s I would say). They call this area of research "public memory" (not in the same vein as historian John Bodnar talks about "public memory" but to stress rhetoric's constant engagement with and careful refinement of concepts like "public" and "publicness")