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Vital memories : Movements in and between affect, ethics and self

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posted on 2014-10-29, 11:28 authored by Steven Dexter Brown, Paula Reavey
The focus on the practice of remembering has been highly productive for memory studies, but it creates difficulties in understanding personal commitment to particular versions of the past. Autobiographical memories of difficult and distressing past episodes – or ‘vital memories’ – require extensive and ongoing management. We describe the issues that arise when vital memories are expressed across a range of specific interactional contexts. Seven themes – autobiography, agency, forgetting, ethics, affect, space and institutional practices – are discussed. Each theme draws out a particular facet of the relationship between the content and contexts of vital memories and demonstrates that while vital memories frame problematic experiences, they remain essential for those who express them.

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Memory Studies, 2014, 7 (3), pp. 328-338

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/School of Management

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Memory Studies

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Sage Publications Inc

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1750-6980

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1750-6999

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2014

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2014-10-29

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http://mss.sagepub.com/content/7/3/328

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en

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