In this paper I try to show the complex character of collective memory. I claim that now collective memory seems to acquire global character since its subject is Humanity. This transformation (related to the Holocaust ...

Collective memory implies the social and psychological production of meaningful acts of memory, a special kind of truth claim about a controversial past. Memory acts are thus conceptualized as ideological positioning ...

Although memories about a nation's past usually are semantic in nature, a distinction needs to be made between lived and distant semantic collective memories. The former refers to memories of community-relevant events ...

Studies on Chilean memory sites have focused on the spaces created to remember the human rights abuses carried out during the dictatorship. However, the ways in which people experience and appropriate these readings of the ...

Memory has the characteristic of being ubiquitous and is considered a phenomenon of identification and belonging in which the individual is both subject and object. In this context, the objective is to present some differences ...

This paper discusses the concept of memory based on a sociocultural perspective for a possible analysis of it as an element of representation in Knowledge Organization. Memory, from a sociocultural perspective, involves ...

How long will this article be remembered? How long will people reference it in their conversations, and for how many years will other authors cite its findings in their own works? A community's attention to a cultural ...