Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

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1. The Roots of Environmental Consciousness

   Popular Tradition and Personal Experience

   Edited by Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Art and the Performance of Memory

   Sounds and Gestures of Recollection

   Edited by Richard Cándida Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, the book highlights the distinction between enactive and cognitive memory and the...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
3. Regimes of Memory

   Edited by Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of their interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination. At the same time, memory has emerged as a...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
4. On Living Through Soviet Russia

   Edited by Daniel Bertaux, Anna Rotkirch, Paul Thompson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new...

   Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge
5. Contested Pasts

   The Politics of Memory

   Edited by Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the...

   Published March 5th 2003 by Routledge
6. The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus

   Narratives of the Journey

   By Gadi BenEzer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the land of their ancestors, 'Yerussalem' - embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their...

   Published May 29th 2002 by Routledge
7. Lines of Narrative

   Psychosocial Perspectives

   Edited by Molly Andrews, Shelley Day Sclater, Corinne Squire, Amal Treacher

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   This volume brilliantly advances our understanding of the use of narrative in the social sciences. It brings together contemporary work on narrative theory and methods and presents a fascinating range of case-studies, from Princess Diana's Panorama interview to the memoirs of the wives of US...

   Published December 6th 2000 by Routledge
8. The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration

   Edited by T.G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson, Michael Roper

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes which have led to this development, among them the passing of the two World Wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the...

   Published November 15th 2000 by Routledge
9. Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914

   Literary and Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth

   Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

   Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an examination of literature, history and science the authors explore the theme of memory as a tool of social progression. This...

   Published May 24th 2000 by Routledge
10. Narratives of Guilt and Compliance in Unified Germany

    Stasi Informers and their Impact on Society

    By Barbara Miller

    Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

    Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer....

    Published November 24th 1999 by Routledge