What is the context of memory? (original) (raw)

Memory in context: Context in memory

Acta Psychologica, 1989

... Abstract. This new area of memory research, discussed here by an international and distinguished team of authors, will be essential reading for students, academics and practitioners with an interest in cognitive and applied psychology or forensic and law-related psychology. ...

The Social Context of Memory

This paper discusses the social context of remembering, arguing that remembering, though performed individually, cannot be conceived without the society that surrounds the remembrancer. It discusses various theories on memory, the act of remembering, its context, and attempts to reach a synthesis.

The philosophy of memory today and tomorrow: Editors' introduction

New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the chapters making up the book, which are grouped into six sections: challenges and alternatives to the causal theory of memory; activity and passivity in remembering; the affective dimension of memory; memory in groups; memory failures: concepts and ethical implications; and the content and phenomenology of episodic and semantic memory.

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

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Memory Studies -Development, Debates and Directions

Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung , 2021

This chapter introduces the reader to the field of Memory Studies. It traces the emergence of memory as a topic of investigation and gives an overview of the development of the field. It highlights the main actors and institutions, describes the most influential debates that have shaped the field and illustrates the institutional structures that sustain it. In doing so, it argues that Memory Studies has started to display all the features characteristic of an established discipline.

Review: "Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies" / Anna Lisa Tota, Trever Hagen (ed.). Oxford: Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 9780415870894

2020

Is memory an example of successful adaptation among homo sapiens? – this hypothesis permeates the 40 chapters of the Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies. This volume edited by Anna Lisa Tota and Trever Hagen approaches the field of memory studies from multiple perspectives, from sociology and philosophy to psychology and biology even. The book is divided into six parts, complemented with index, illustrations, all carefully edited. Part One presents a number of theories and perspectives. Here, main concepts of memory studies are discussed with the hindsight of several decades that have passed since they first stormed social sciences. Collective, communicative and cultural memory as well as their relation to history all receive attention there. Patrick H. Hutton's thorough analysis of Pierre Nora's 'sites of memory thirty years after' deserves special praise for its careful reconstruction of the process in which this concept arose, as well as for a succi...