Memory studies for the people: Marxism and popular culture in contemporary approaches to memory studies
Memory studies for the people: Marxism and popular culture in contemporary approaches to memory studies

Summary/Abstract: Memory is a phenomenon, process, and social fact that has attracted much discussion. Even before memory studies emerged as an interdisciplinary research field in the 1980s, memory, among others referring to its (de)formation, selection, unconscious, affects, social use and (re)mediation, was studied and understood both in relation to individuals and from a more collective perspective. The latter has pointed out the range of institutions, from monuments and graveyards to history textbooks, state museums, international institutions (e.g., UNESCO) and, more recently, also digital infrastructures that deal with the processes of the storing, forming and reproducing of communicative, political, social and cultural memory. In the last century, studies of collective memory have sought to address the broader “memory culture” that has long formed a vital part of society, and recurring questions like what is being left behind, what will be remembered, and what forgotten, why, and in whose name – in the context of very different academic disciplines.

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