Future Memory Practices
Across Institutions, Communities, and Modalities
Contributor(s)
Koch, Gertraud (editor)
Smith, Rachel Charlotte (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
Future Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory and socially inclusive memory practices in digital media ecologies. It brings a novel relational approach to future memory work across institutions, people, and modalities. Advancing inter- and transdisciplinary research and rich empirical cases from across Europe and beyond, the book examines how memory practices in digital media are open for engagement of people with diverse backgrounds. It analyses the modalities of memory making and how they can enable institutional and public memory making with a broad spectrum of people and groups in civil society at local, translocal, national and global levels. The chapters examine the mediatized character of memory making, whilst also critically considering what obstacles and potentials emerge from participatory memory work. As a whole, the book is a comprehensive source of knowledge and ideas for creating socially inclusive, sustainable memory practices and futures. It sets the multidisciplinary research agenda for advancing studies of heritage in contemporary digital media as an element and a driver of cultural and social change. Future Memory Work is essential reading for academics, students and professionals working in the fields of Anthropology, Museum Studies, Digital Cultural Heritage, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies and Design.
Keywords
memory practices; digital media; memory making; Digital Cultural Heritage; Cultural StudiesDOI
10.4324/9781003459163ISBN
9781040150733, 9781040150870, 9781032597324, 9781003459163, 9781040150733Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2025Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Participatory Memory Practices,Classification
Cultural studies
Museology and heritage studies
History