Overview
- Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted on remembering in everyday life, it will help fill the gap in memory studies caused by lack of sustained ethnographic work
- Moves outwards from there is no existing research in memory studies specifically on life transitions as they are experienced in everyday conditions and circumstances
- Offers the first sustained research in memory studies specifically on life transitions as they are experienced in everyday conditions and circumstances
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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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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About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memory and the Management of Change
Book Subtitle: Repossessing the Past
Authors: Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58744-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58743-1Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86466-2Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58744-8Published: 09 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 228
Topics: Cultural Theory, Memory Studies, Media and Communication, Cultural Heritage, Cultural History