The current overview provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of autobiographical and collective memory studies, focusing on history and cognitive psychology, to help other scholars bridge the disciplinary gap. We describe the various interpretative frameworks used to build theoretical knowledge on how autobiographical memory and collective memory are intertwined. We expose how research exploring self, social and directive functions of autobiographical memory echoes three main functions that can be identified for collective memory, that is, social identity, social schemata, and means for actions, or a political decision tool of research in these fields. In doing so, we hope to stimulate opportunities for more interdisciplinary research. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Memory Psychology > Theory and Methods.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/wcs.1635

Collective memory and autobiographical memory: Perspectives from the humanities and cognitive sciences.

In Balkan countries, the term “Ottoman heritage” evokes a contradictory set of perceptions, between awareness of a common cultural landscape and rejection or suspicion of remnants of the “Turkish yoke”. This chapter questions this ambivalence by focusing on Mustapha Kemal Ataturk’s places of memory in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. Part of wider spaces and territories, scales and stakes, Ataturk’s places of memory in the Balkans question ways of coping with a past—and heritages—at once shared and contested, at the crossroads of post-Ottoman cultural policies, urban renewal and regional development.

Post-Ottoman Heritage(s), “Kemalist” Tourism and Cultural Policies in the Balkans

Le couple histoire/memoire et la question des representations culturelles sont, depuis de nombreuses annees, au cœur de debats scientifiques, sociaux et politiques. Les recherches menees dans le cadre du programme Imasud (Suds imaginaires, imaginaire des Suds. Heritages, memoires, representations en Mediterranee), soutenu entre 2008 et 2010 par l’ANR, le laboratoire Telemme et la Maison mediterraneenne des sciences de l’Homme d’Aix-en-Provence, avaient pour objectif d’aborder cette relation a la lumiere de differents cas mediterraneens. Leur comparaison a permis de souligner l’emergence de nouveaux acteurs prenant place desormais dans l’elaboration des memoires mediterraneennes, en phase avec la tendance generale de fragmentation des discours sur le passe, entre politique patrimoniales et revendications politiques des minorites.

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Manoël Pénicaud

Papers

Imaginaires, conflits et mémoires en Méditerranée. De l’État-nation aux communautés ? (Imasud)