The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field of memory studies This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Key features of the book include: - Investigates community remembering and memory in personal narratives - Explores the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage - Attends to painful pasts and disrupted memory - Examines how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities - Focusses on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory - Analyses the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. She has published the edited collection Time, Media and Modernity (2012) and has co-authored The Mnemonic Imagination (2012) with Michael Pickering. She is assistant editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society. Michael Pickering also teaches in the social sciences at Loughborough University. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007, co-written with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (2009, co-edited with Sharon Lockyer); Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010), and Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain (2013, co-written with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson).

Introduction: Methodological Premises and Purposes - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section One: Memory and Identity; 1. Autobiographical Memory - Robyn Fivush; 2. Oral History and Remembering - Joanna Bornat; Section Two: Qualities of Memory; 3. Experience and Memory - Steve Brown and Paula Reavey; 4. Between Official and Vernacular Remembering - Sabina Mihelj; Section Three: Media and Memory; 5. Televised Remembering - Ann Gray; 6. Vernacular Remembering - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Section Four: Locations of Memory; 7. Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods - Paul Basu; 8. Ethnicity and Memory - Amanda Kearney; Section Five: Disturbed Memory; 9. Painful Pasts - Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering; 10. Disrupted Childhoods - Jo Aldridge and Chris Dearden; Section Six: Confessing and Witnessing; 11. Apologia - Cristean Tileaga; 12. Testimony - Jovan Byford; Conclusion - Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley; Further Reading; Bibliography.