Sue Campbell
Relational Remembering
- ISBN 13:
- 9780742532816
- author:
- Sue Campbell
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2003
- Pages:
- 238
- Dimensions:
- 152 mm X 227 mm
- Genre:
- Developmental Psychology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Relational Remembering Rethinking the Memory Wars by Sue Campbell offers a thought-provoking challenge to contemporary skepticism about memory. By examining the impact of the "memory wars" on science and culture, Campbell provides a philosophical analysis of the strategies used to challenge women's memories. The author argues that our understanding of memory is distorted when we view rememberers in isolation, neglecting the social dimensions of remembering. Instead, Campbell proposes a feminist reconceptualization of personal memory as relational, social, and subject to politics. This approach recognizes how one's social location affects their success as a rememberer and has profound implications for cultural status as a moral agent. By analyzing memory as a complex interplay of cognitive abilities and social/narrative activities, Campbell sheds light on the nature of harms linked to oppression and the importance of considering the social context of remembering.
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