Abstract
This paper explores collective memory and grief as they are experienced and expressed at modern memorial sites. What makes them collective is the way they are interpreted and felt as a ‘we’, in first-person plural. From a cultural psychological perspective, we conceptualize memorials as cultural and historical artefacts that mediate these processes and in so doing give meaning to the past based on present and future challenges. Along these lines, we analyse visitors’ situated and evolving experiences of two memorial sites: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and the Ground Zero National September 11 Memorial in New York. Results focus on individuals’ particular modes of experiencing and appropriating modern memorial sites, which in contrast to classic ones are purposely built to generate a wide range of different meaning-making processes and ways of interacting with them.
| Bidragets oversatte titel | The psychology of modern memorials: The affective intertwining of personal and collective memories |
|---|---|
| Originalsprog | Spansk |
| Tidsskrift | Estudios de Psicologia |
| Vol/bind | 40 |
| Udgave nummer | 1 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 219-244 |
| Antal sider | 26 |
| ISSN | 0210-9395 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2 jan. 2019 |
| Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:This research was done as part of the Culture of Grief Center, which is funded by the Obel foundation. We would also like to thank Henriette Petersen and Helene Solvej Eberl
Funding Information:
This research was done as part of the Culture of Grief Center, which is funded by the Obel foundation. We would also like to thank Henriette Petersen and Helene Solvej Eberl Smed for their help with data collection in Berlin and Sarah H. Awad for her help at both research sites. / Esta investigaci?n fue realizada como parte del Culture of Grief Center creado por la fundaci?n Obel. Nos gustar?a agradecer a Henriette Petersen y Helene Solvej Eberl Smed por habernos ayudado con la recolecci?n de datos en Berl?n, y a Sarah H. Awad por su ayuda en los dos emplazamientos investigados.
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Emneord
- collective memory
- cultural psychology
- grief
- mediation
- memorials