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Memory in Culture
This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering.It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way.
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Hip Hop Culture : A roadtrip across Europe
Hip-hop expert and Backspin publisher Niko Backspin, together with Porsche, has created a new travel guide to Europe's hip-hop music and culture.Far from promotion tours or concert halls, Huls meets and talks to rappers, DJs, street performers and breakdancers.Part of Porsche's 'Back 2 Tape' documentary series, this guide sheds a light on the influence of urban hip-hop youth culture in European cities. With 17 artists from Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Spain and Denmark, it combines portraits of hip-hop stars such as Kool Savas (Berlin), Lord Esperanza (Paris), Edson Sabajo (Amsterdam), Falsalarma (Barcelona), Lars Pedersen (Copenhagen) and the Flying Steps (Berlin) with destinations that every hip-hop and road trip fan in Europe should visit. "This book is an invitation to encounter European hip-hop culture with all its diversity in an open and positive way..." Niko Backspin
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Witness Literature : Culture, Memory and Contested Truths
This book is the first critical monograph to explore the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony from the Global South. Witness Literature examines writing from three sites of exceptional violence and fluid justice: the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence in Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and the UK.Drawing on the intersecting fields of literary analysis, biopolitics, testimony studies, trauma theory and postcolonial studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; takes up the call to expand Western understanding of the normatively human by focusing on work that bears witness from sites of compromised belonging; and shows how witness literature by migrant subjects marks an important intervention in Western readings of trauma. Ambitious in cultural and conceptual reach, Witness Literature invokes a wide range of texts from within the nations studied and from diasporic writers.These include: eye witness accounts and survivor stories gathered in Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields; memoirs and autobiographies like Francois Bizot’s The Gate, Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father and Ajith Boyagoda's re-told memoir, A Long Watch; Sanam Maher’s biography of the internet star Qandeel Baloch that exposes the truth technologies of the media; pseudonymous work that reconfigures the authorising identity of the witness; novels by diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Vaddey Ratner, Madeleine Thien and Anuk Arudpragasam; the posthumously published editorial of an assassinated journalist who anticipated his death; fabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events including Shehan Karunatilaka’s phantasmagoric novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; and such works as Elif Shafak's Honour, Salman Rushdie's Shame and Shalimar the Clown. Offering a compelling and surprising analysis of the representation of life under the threat, Minoli Salgado exposes how the mixed cultural allegiances of the border witness mark a double agency that challenges multiple orthodoxies and shows how testimonial work from the Global South maps new moral communities by opening up alternative ways of reading truth, subjectivity, healing and justice.
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What is memory culture?
Memory culture refers to the collective understanding and commemoration of historical events, experiences, and traditions within a society. It encompasses the ways in which a society remembers, preserves, and passes down its cultural and historical knowledge to future generations. Memory culture can include practices such as memorialization, storytelling, education, and the preservation of artifacts and traditions. It plays a crucial role in shaping a society's identity and in fostering a sense of connection to the past.
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What is the difference between historical culture and memory culture?
Historical culture refers to the collective understanding and interpretation of historical events, traditions, and customs within a society. It encompasses the tangible and intangible aspects of a society's past, including artifacts, monuments, and rituals. Memory culture, on the other hand, focuses on the ways in which a society actively engages with and remembers its history. It involves the processes of commemoration, memorialization, and the transmission of historical knowledge through storytelling, education, and public discourse. While historical culture is the broader framework of a society's historical identity, memory culture is the active, dynamic practice of remembering and interpreting that history.
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What is the most important product of memory culture?
The most important product of memory culture is the preservation of history and collective knowledge. By remembering and honoring the past, societies can learn from their mistakes, celebrate their achievements, and ensure that important events are not forgotten. Memory culture helps to create a sense of identity and continuity, fostering a shared understanding of the past that can unite communities and inspire future generations. Ultimately, the most important product of memory culture is the ability to pass down valuable lessons and experiences to shape a better future.
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What is the topic of the seminar paper on memory culture?
The topic of the seminar paper on memory culture is the impact of collective memory on society. It explores how memories of historical events are constructed, transmitted, and preserved within a society, and how these memories shape individual and collective identities. The paper also examines the role of memory in fostering understanding, reconciliation, and social cohesion, as well as the potential for memory to be manipulated for political or ideological purposes.
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Trauma & Memory : The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture
Over the past decades, the memory of the Holocaust has not only become a common cultural consciousness but also a cultural property shared by people all over the world.This collection brings together academics, critics and creative practitioners from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Literature, History, Media Studies, Creative Writing and German Studies to discuss contemporary trends in Holocaust commemoration and representation in literature, film, TV, the entertainment industry and social media.The essays in this trans-disciplinary collection debate how contemporary culture engages with the legacy of the Holocaust now that, 75 years on from the end of the Second World War, the number of actual survivors is dwindling.It engages with ongoing cultural debates in Holocaust Studies that have seen a development from, largely, testimonial presentations of the Holocaust to more fictional narratives both in literature and film.In addition to a number of chapters focusing in particular on literary trends in Holocaust representation, the collection also assesses other forms of cultural production surrounding the Holocaust, ranging from recent official memorialisation in Germany to Holocaust presentation in film, computer games and social media.The collection also highlights the contributions by creative practitioners such as writers and performers who use drama and the traditional art of storytelling in order to keep memories alive and pass them on to new generations.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.
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Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future.But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially.Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory.Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture.The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter1.pdfChapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter4.pdfChapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter5.pdf
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Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, c.900-1300
Considers the role gender played in the production, use and preservation of documents. How was the world of medieval documentation and memory creation affected by gender?This question is central to the essays collected here, which bring together aspects of gender and documentary culture that are usually studied only in isolation.Covering the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, the volume offers a broad geographical reach - England, France, Flanders, Germany, Spain - and an array of sources, from charters, letters and court proceedings to seals, iconography, and illumination.There is a particular focus on lay female communities, including women's collective legal action in pre-Conquest England, documentary initiatives of Castilian peasant widows, and urban Flemish women's sealing practices.Re-examinations of noblewomen's centrality - and erasure - in charters focus on Ermengarde of Brittany, Mathilda of Boulogne and Berengaria of Navarre.Contributions on gender and historical writing explore their development in Ottonian courts, tenth-century English coronation portraits, Orderic Vitalis' Historia Ecclesiastica, and French chroniclers' rhetorical strategies for writing noblewomen's rage.Further chapters consider monastic spaces, including women's houses at Auxerre and Marcigny and at Holy Trinity, Caen, and explore women's memory preservation efforts, at Spanish houses - San Salvador de Oña and Santa María de Piasca - and a community at Bouxières.This volume demonstrates the new insights that can be gleaned by viewing various processes, such as legal disputes and monastic narratives and foundation, through a gendered lens.
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In Memory of Memory
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia.Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.Dipping into various forms – essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents – Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
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Which memory?
Memory is the cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. It is essential for learning, decision-making, and daily functioning. There are different types of memory, including short-term memory, long-term memory, and working memory, each serving a specific function in processing and retaining information. Memory plays a crucial role in shaping our experiences, perceptions, and behaviors.
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Can a specific memory be erased from memory?
While it is not currently possible to selectively erase a specific memory from the brain, there are some techniques being researched that may eventually allow for targeted memory modification. One approach involves disrupting the process of memory consolidation, which is the process by which memories are stabilized and stored. Another method being explored is the use of drugs or other interventions to interfere with the retrieval of a specific memory, making it less accessible. However, these techniques are still in the early stages of development and raise ethical concerns about altering an individual's personal memories.
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What is short-term memory and long-term memory?
Short-term memory refers to the temporary storage of information that is currently being used or processed. It has a limited capacity and duration, typically holding information for only a few seconds to a minute. Long-term memory, on the other hand, is the storage of information for an extended period of time, potentially for a lifetime. It has a much larger capacity than short-term memory and is responsible for storing and retrieving information from the past. Both types of memory are essential for cognitive functioning and learning.
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Can a specific memory be erased from the memory?
While it is not currently possible to selectively erase a specific memory from the brain, there are some techniques being researched that may eventually allow for targeted memory modification. One approach involves disrupting the process of memory consolidation, which is the process by which memories are stabilized and stored. However, these techniques are still in the early stages of development and raise ethical concerns about altering an individual's personal experiences and identity.
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