Remembering the Falklands War is published by Palgrave Macmillan who publish award-winning research across the the humanities, social sciences and business for academics, professionals and librarians.

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The book is published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Series, edited by Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton.

The nascent field of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from ‘what we know’ to ‘how we remember it’; changes in generational memory; the rapid advance of technologies of memory; panics over declining powers of memory, which mirror our fascination with the possibilities of memory enhancement; and the development of trauma narratives in reshaping the past. These factors have contributed to an intensification of public discourses on our past over the last thirty years. Technological, political, interpersonal, social and cultural shifts affect what, how and why people and societies remember and forget. This groundbreaking new series tackles questions such as: What is ‘memory’ under these conditions? What are its prospects, and also the prospects for its interdisciplinary and systematic study? What are the conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools for its investigation and illumination?

Titles in the Series also include:

Recently published:

• A. Hajek, C. Lohmeier, C. Pentzold (Eds.) Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction
• M. Pickering, E. Keightley. Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life

Upcoming Volumes:

• A. Reading. Gender and Memory in the Globital Age
• M. Pogačar. Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling: Re-presencing the Past
• J.O. Kleist. Political Memories and Migration: Belonging, Society, and Australia Day
• E.L. Han. Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China

For more information visit the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Series Page

 

Featured Image Above: Memorial Plague for the Falklands War, Port Stanley Memorial, Falkland Islands June 2012. © Sarah Maltby