Research Methods for Memory Studies

The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field

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, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study.

Key Features:

• Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narratives
• Exploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage
• Attending to painful pasts and disrupted memory
• Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities
• Focusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory
• Analysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors


Author: Emily Keightley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/31/2013
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780748645961

About the Author


Dr Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Her research interests include the mediation of memory, time and everyday life. As well as recent articles on memory and methodology, generational transmission and painful pasts, she has published the edited collection Time, Media and Modernity (2012) and has co-authored The Mnemonic Imagination (2012) with Michael Pickering. She is assistant editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.

Professor Michael Pickering teaches in the Social Sciences at Loughborough University. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010). Rhythms of Labour: The History of Music at Work in Britain, co-written with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson, will appear in May 2013, published by Cambridge University Press.