Memory and Culture—Notes on the Concept of "Memory Cultures" Within Cultural Studies

• Main Author: Nina Leonhard
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: FQS 2007-09-01
• Series: Forum: Qualitative Social Research
• Subjects: cultural studies; identity; memory; memory culture(s); multidisciplinarity; media; structure(s) of knowledge; time and space
• Online Access: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/303
• ISSN: 1438-5627

This book of collected papers, published by the DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich Erinnerungskulturen ("Memory Cultures") at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen, gives a broad overview of approaches and results of memory research within various disciplines. Despite many interesting insights, the book offers no general framework by which the different aspects analyzed by the authors could be classified and related to one another. Thus, the shortcomings of memory studies, from a cultural perspective and understood as an interdisciplinary, multidimensional research program, become visible. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0703259