Cognition, Culture, and Political Momentum

Breaking down the Silos in Collective Memory Research

Astrid Erll, William Hirst (Herausgeber)

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464 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-778834-9 (ISBN)

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After more than two decades of research on collective memory across various disciplines, Breaking down the Silos in Collective Memory Research brings together psychological memory research with the field of memory studies in a systematic way. Astrid Erll and William Hirst have gathered expert authors from across disciplines to present a sustained dialogue between cognitive and cultural memory researchers. The book is arranged according to key fields of memory research, and for quick reference to existent memory research, each chapter is structured in the same way, addressing the typical research questions, methods, and materials of a given approach. The chapters include discussions on familial, national, and transnational memory; memory and emotion; memory narratives; memory and digital media; memory conflicts; memory activism; and future thinking. Concise and accessible, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Memory Studies and intends to "break down the silos" that still exist in research on collective memory today.

Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for international and interdisciplinary dialogues on collective memory. She is the author of Travels in Time (Oxford, 2025) and Memory in Culture (2011), which has been translated into five languages. William Hirst is Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He examines the contribution of the cognitive sciences to the study of social and collective memory and the ways this work can be integrated into the more humanities-and social science-based approaches to Memory Studies. He has published over 150 articles and edited five books on these topics.

List of Contributors

Introduction: Breaking Down the Silos in Collective Memory Research (Astrid Erll and William Hirst)

Part 1: Memory Across the Mind and the Wild
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Two Cultures of Collective Memory Revisited (Jeffrey K. Olick)
Chapter 2: Distributed Remembering and Cognitive Philosophy (John Sutton)
Chapter 3: Psychological Approaches to the Study of Collective Memory (William Hirst)
Chapter 4: Histories of Public Pasts (Carol Gluck)

Part 2: Generation and Memory
Introduction
Chapter 5: Intergenerational Narratives and Autobiographical Memory (Robyn Fivush)
Chapter 6: Postmemory: Art and Practice Across Generations (Marianne Hirsch)
Chapter 7: History in Family Memory (Aline Cordonnier and Olivier Luminet)
Chapter 8: Generation and Collective Memories of National and World Events (Amy D. Corning)

Part 3: National and Transnational Memory
Introduction
Chapter 9: Comparing National Narratives (James V. Wertsch)
Chapter 10: The Psychology of National Memory (Henry L. Roediger, III and Magdalena Abel)
Chapter 11: Cosmopolitanization and Mnemonic Processes (Daniel Levy)
Chapter 12: Fictions of Transoceanic Memory (Hanna Teichler)

Part 4: Narrative, Emotion, and Memory
Introduction
Chapter 13: Narrative Form and Emotion (Tilmann Habermas)
Chapter 14: Collective Memory as Collaborative Narration (Brian Schiff)
Chapter 15: The Effects of Emotions on Memories (Olivier Luminet and Aline Cordonnier)
Chapter 16: Trauma of Tomorrow: Environmental Breakdown, Affect, and Cultural Narratives (Stef Craps)
Chapter 17: Memory and the History of Emotion: Letters from the First World War (Sílvia Correia)

Part 5: Media and Big Data
Introduction
Chapter 18: Media and Memory: The Case of the Odyssey (Astrid Erll)
Chapter 19: Memory in Algorithmic Culture (Rik Smit)
Chapter 20: Data Science and the Dynamics of Collective Memory (Cristian Candia)
Chapter 21: Social Media and Collective Memory (Charles B. Stone)

Part 6: Conflict and Commemorative Culture
Introduction
Chapter 22: Meta-Memory: The Battle Lines of Twenty-First Century Political Conflict (Wulf Kansteiner)
Chapter 23: Memory versus Reconciliation: Dilemma of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Valérie Rosoux)
Chapter 24: Conflict and Comparison: The Case of Holocaust Memory (Michael Rothberg)
Chapter 25: Collective Memory and Social Representations of History (James H. Liu and Sarah Y. Choi)
Chapter 26: Conflicting Memory Narratives (Aleida Assmann)

Part 7: Future Thinking and Transformative Memory
Introduction
Chapter 27: Collective Future Thinking (Jeremy K. Yamashiro and Meymune Nur Topçu)
Chapter 28: Media and Future Thinking (Piotr M. Szpunar and Karl K. Szpunar)
Chapter 29: Memory of Potentiality and Memory of the Future in Literature (Justyna Tabaszewska)
Chapter 30: Remembering Activism and the Agency of the Aesthetic (Ann Rigney)
Chapter 31: On (Not) Learning from the Past (Sarah Gensburger)

Afterword: After the Roundtables (Astrid Erll and William Hirst)
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Collective Memory
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-19-778834-3 / 0197788343
ISBN-13	978-0-19-778834-9 / 9780197788349
Zustand	Neuware