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Collective Memory Narratives in Contemporary Culture

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Editors:
  1. Antonella Pocecco

    1. Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

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  2. Estrella Gualda

    1. Departament of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, COIDESO & ESEIS Research Centers, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain

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  3. Emiliana Mangone

    1. Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

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  • Considers collective memory as a powerful tool in understanding a society's present and future
  • Integrates sociological perspectives with those of other social sciences
  • Provides a unique perspective in examining the relationship between memory and related narratives

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Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a transdisciplinary reflection on how the “presentification of the past” is never a simple reenactment but corresponds to the interaction between memory and cultural sensitiveness, present beliefs and needs, expectations, and forecasts for the future. It studies cultural (re)construction through collective stories, including academic debates, media narratives, collective mobilizations, state narratives of history, architectural reconstructions, and artistic expressions. It looks at how technological innovations have profoundly changed the practices of conservation and dissemination of collective memory, with particular reference to cultural digitization. Finally, it shows that the relevance and selection of events, the organization of connections and cross-references between past, present, and future, as well as the importance of diversified collective imaginaries are the keys to narrative constructions of memory that prove to be sensitive and decisive for its continuity and its intergenerational transmission. This interdisciplinary collection is for students and scholars of the social sciences, cultural studies, and the humanities interested in memory studies.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Questioning the Past: Nostalgia, Remembrance and Conflict

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Diversity of Collective Memories and Identification Processes on Monuments: The Columbus Monument in Huelva, Spain, as a Case Study

      • Estrella Gualda, Javier Ibáñez Meseguer
      Pages 37-54

    3. Can Nostalgia Be Dangerous? Post-Soviet Nostalgia as Retrotopia: The Emotional Dynamic and Fluctuations of the Social Order

      • Olga A. Simonova
      Pages 55-70

    4. Workers’ Memories: Distant Reading Exercises

      • Gustavo Contreras, Guillermina Laitano, Agustín Nieto, Nicolás Rabino
      Pages 71-89

    5. European Memory and Identity During the Refugee Crisis

      • Carolina Rebollo-Díaz
      Pages 91-109
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

    Antonella Pocecco

  • Departament of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, COIDESO & ESEIS Research Centers, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain

    Estrella Gualda

  • Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Emiliana Mangone

About the editors

Antonella Pocecco is a researcher at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine, where she teaches Sociology of Mass Communications and Intercultural Communication. She is the coordinator the MECOME (Collective Memory and Media) research group and co-founder member of the international research group Narratives and Social Changes. Her latest publications include: (with M. Pascoli), Visitare il passato. Il turismo della memoria della Grande guerra nel Friuli Venezia Giulia (FrancoAngeli, 2021); “I media nella costruzione della memoria: la pluralizzazione del ricordo”, Metis - Mῆτις,. XXVIII, 2021, 1; “Transnationalism and Universalism of the Memory Tourism of the Great War”, Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK, 5, 2020, 1; (ed.), Memorie del presente. Luoghi, oggetti e culture della società globale (FrancoAngeli, 2019).

 Estrella Gualda is a Full Professor of Sociology, a Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida, and past President of the Andalusian Sociological Association (2018-2022). She develops her work at the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, University of Huelva, Spain, where she also is the Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Centre since 2001. She is a member of the COIDESO Research Centre at the University of Huelva and a co-founder member of the international research group Narratives & Social Changes – International Research Group, an Associate Researcher of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research, and a founder member of the Applied Computational Social Sciences Lab, at the University of Huelva. Recent publications are: “Big data y ciencias sociales: Una mirada comparativa a las publicaciones de antropología, sociología y trabajo social” (Gazeta de antropología, 2023); "Social big data, sociología y ciencias sociales computacionales" (Empiria, 2022); "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic” (Nature Communications, 2022, coauthor); “Conspiracy Mentality and Political Orientation across 26 countries” (Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, coauthor).

Emiliana Mangone is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). She is Director of the Narratives and Social Changes-International Research Group (NaSC-IRG, 2020-2026) and she was Director of the International Centre for Studies and Research on “Mediterranean Knowledge” (2015-2020). Her main investigative interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, knowledge, and narrative as key elements to the human act, in migration studies, and as well as the study pf the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin. She recently published: Pitirim A. Sorokin. Rediscovering a Master of Sociology (Vernon Press, 2023); Narratives and Social Change. Social Reality in Contemporary Society (Springer, 2022); Solidarietà sociale (Mondadori, 2022); Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism. Society, Relationship and Responsibility (Information Age Publishing, 2020). 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Collective Memory Narratives in Contemporary Culture

  • Editors: Antonella Pocecco, Estrella Gualda, Emiliana Mangone

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41921-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41920-1Published: 28 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41923-2Due: 29 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41921-8Published: 27 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Social Anthropology, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies

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