Research Methods for Memory Studies

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.

• Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes – Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section One: Memory and Identity; 1. Autobiographical Memory – Robyn Fivush; 2. Oral History and Remembering – Joanna Bornat; Section Two: Qualities of Memory; 3. Experience and Memory – Steve Brown and Paula Reavey; 4. Between Official and Vernacular Remembering – Sabina Mihelj; Section Three: Media and Memory; 5. Televised Remembering – Ann Gray; 6. Vernacular Remembering – Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section Four: Locations of Memory; 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods – Paul Basu; 8. Ethnicity and Memory – Amanda Kearney; Section Five: Disturbed Memory; 9. Painful Pasts – Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering; 10. Disrupted Childhoods – Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden; Section Six: Confessing and Witnessing; 11. Apologia – Cristean Tileaga; 12. Testimony – Jovan Byford; Conclusion - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Further Reading; Bibliography.