Research Methods for Memory Studies

The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in memory studies

This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.

Key Features:
• Investigates community remembering and memory in personal narratives
• Explores the localisation of official national memory
• Attends to painful pasts and disrupted memory
• Examines vernacular remembering and personalised media
• Focuses on the production of social memory in the media
• Analyses the dynamics of remembering in public confessions