Memory ecologies

Hoskins, A. (2016) Memory ecologies. Memory Studies, 9(3), pp. 348-357. (doi: 10.1177/1750698016645274)

Abstract

The individual and collective and also cultural domains have long constituted challenging boundaries for the study of memory. These are often clearly demarcated between approaches drawn from the human and the social sciences and also humanities, respectively. But recent work turns the enduring imagination – the world view – of these domains on its head by treating memory as serving a link between both the individual and collective past and future. Here, I employ some of the contributions from Schacter and Welker’s Special Issue of Memory Studies on ‘Memory and Connection’ to offer an ‘expanded view’ of memory that sees remembering and forgetting as the outcome of interactional trajectories of experience, both emergent and predisposed.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Hoskins, Professor Andrew
• Authors: Hoskins, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Memory Studies
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
• ISSN: 1750-6980
• Published Online: 30 June 2016
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2016 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Memory Studies 9(3):348-357
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher