Strategies of Memory: History, Social Memory, and the Community
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Abstract
JOHN C. WALSH and Steven High find in their recent research note on Rethinking the Concept of Community that community seems to occupy an omnipresent but ambiguous place in the narrative structure of historians. To rectify this and to stimulate debate, they present a model of three essential aspects to community: interaction, imagination, and process. The construction of communities is a social process, reproduced in the interactions of social networks, and represented by signs and symbols in the imaginings of individuals internal and external to the community. This element of imagination can be linked to Benedict Andersons notion of the nation as an imagined political community. Although the nation is larger than a single physical community and thus all its members cannot be known to each other, it is still conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship regardless of its inequities and hierarchies. This vision of a shared group is necessarily imagined and is defined not by its actual correlation to any real group identifiers, but by the style in which it is imagined. This definition of community can be extended to all types of groups that possess a sense of shared identity and history based on material or social constructs such as geography, ethnicity, or gender. Such a communitys collective values, beliefs, and practices are expressed through the creation and retention of particular narratives about the past: its social memory. The modern scholar most credited with beginning the study of social memory is Maurice Halbwachs, whose notion of the collective memory is
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| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.006 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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