New Publication: Future Memory Practices Across Institutions, Communities, and Modalities

16. Dezember 2024

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The Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg is excited to announce the release of the first Open Access edition of Future Memory Practices Across Institutions, Communities, and Modalities, edited by Gertraud Koch and Rachel Charlotte Smith.

This book addresses a critical challenge in today’s pluralistic societies: organizing open, participatory, and socially inclusive memory practices within digital media ecologies. It introduces a novel relational approach to future memory work that spans institutions, communities, and various modalities.

Drawing on inter- and transdisciplinary research and rich empirical cases from Europe and beyond, the book explores how digital media memory practices can engage diverse backgrounds. It analyzes different modalities of memory-making and their potential to foster institutional and public memory among a wide range of civil society groups at local, translocal, national, and global levels. The chapters also critically assess the mediated nature of memory-making and the challenges and opportunities presented by participatory approaches.

Future Memory Work is a vital resource for creating socially inclusive and sustainable memory practices and sets a multidisciplinary research agenda for advancing studies of heritage in contemporary digital media as both a catalyst and element of cultural and social change.

This book is essential reading for academics, students, and professionals in fields such as Anthropology, Museum Studies, Digital Cultural Heritage, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, and Design.

Several contributors, including Jennifer Krueckeberg, Quoc-Tan Tran, Angeliki Tzouganatou, Samantha Lutz, and Gertraud Koch, are affiliated with the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies and the Horizon 2020 European Training Network POEM (2018-2022). This H2020 MSCA ITN highlights the increasing demand for experts skilled in navigating the complexities of mediatized memory ecologies and associated frameworks. Additionally, the initiative has facilitated valuable collaboration with other faculties at the University of Hamburg, particularly with the Chair of Management of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Organizations led by Silke Boenigk, along with her researchers Peter Schubert and Nils Geib. This partnership highlights the institute’s dedication to advancing research in the field of mediatized memory ecologies.

We extend our gratitude to the POEM - H2020 Project, all the authors for their excellent contributions, Quoc-Tan Tran for dedicated editorial assistance, and to the University of Hamburg and Aarhus University for their Open Access funding.

For more information, visit: https://www.routledge.com/Future-Memory-Practices-Across-Institutions-Communities-and-Modalities/Koch-Smith/p/book/9781032597324. 

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