The limits of memory

Nienass, Benjamin; Poole, Ross

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2451.2011.01796.x

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“…This brings us to the normative dimension of collective memory. As Nienass and Poole (2011) point out, collective memory is normative inasmuch as it indicates to us – either individually or collectively – those episodes in the past that we must take into account when deciding what to do in the present (p. 89). Drawing on the Schank and Abelson (1977) model, it can be argued that collective memory conveys a kind of script which, like charters, prescribes guidelines for action.…”

Section: Applying Prolepsis To the Study Of Collective Memorymentioning

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The end into the beginning: Prolepsis and the reconstruction of the collective past

Brescó

2017

Culture & Psychology

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Prolepsis-or the narrative manoeuver consisting of narrating or evoking a future event in advance-is a concept borrowed from literary theory that has been used in Psychology for studying the contribution of culture and meaning to development. Cole applies the notion of prolepsis to upbringing insofar as parents' imagined goals vis-à-vis their offspring guide their educational childrearing, thus channelling the child's present towards the parents' imagined future. This view coincides with cultural psychology in that humans are considered as future-oriented beings, constructing cultural tools that mediate the way we interpret the world and act within it. Drawing from this theoretical framework, this paper applies the notion of prolepsis to collective memory in order to examine how imagined futures are brought into the present by means of particular ways of reconstructing the past, thus mobilizing collectives towards certain political goals. Along these lines, the narrative, pragmatic and normative dimensions of collective memory are discussed. The paper concludes with some reflections on the role of politics of imagination in promoting different ways of relating past, present and future.

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Section: Applying Prolepsis To the Study Of Collective Memorymentioning

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The end into the beginning: Prolepsis and the reconstruction of the collective past

Brescó

2017

Culture & Psychology

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“…Klein’s warning against reification in the field of memory studies can be taken seriously without giving up the notion that humans imbue the material world with meaning in almost any act of communication (Nienass and Poole, 2012: 91–92), but here, we want to address another specific limitation to the memory–materiality relationship assumed by some of the critiques above. A starting point for this issue is the premise that the externalization thesis implied in the accounts by Forty, Nora, and others is not the only productive way to think of the relationship between memory and objects.…”

Section: Materiality and Conceptualizations Of Memorymentioning

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Memory | Materiality | Sensuality

2015

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“…2 See Barstad (2010) for a critical examination of the ongoing debate between those who advocate an "absolute dichotomy/discontinuity between memory and history" (p. 7) and those who continue to advocate for a relationship between history and memory. A wider summary by Nienass and Poole (2012) annotates the current views on memory studies within the social sciences.…”

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Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

Levy¹,

Schneider²,

Propp³

2015

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences is a book series designed to foster research-based conversation with all parts of the university campus from buildings of ivy-covered stone to technologically savvy walls of glass. Scholarship from international researchers and the esteemed editorial board represents the farreaching applications of computational analysis, statistical models, computer-based programs, and other quantitative methods. Methods are integrated in a dialogue that is sensitive to the broader context of humanistic study and social science research. Scholars, including among others historians, archaeologists, classicists and linguists, promote this interdisciplinary approach. These texts teach new methodological approaches for contemporary research. Each volume exposes readers to a particular research method. Researchers and students then benefit from exposure to subtleties of the larger project or corpus of work in which the quantitative methods come to fruition.

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The limits of memory

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

The end into the beginning: Prolepsis and the reconstruction of the collective past

The end into the beginning: Prolepsis and the reconstruction of the collective past

Memory | Materiality | Sensuality

Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective

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