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Embodiment, Collective Memory and Time

New School, New School for Social Research, Department of Sociology

Although there are exceptions, most researchers on collective memory have neglected the idea that collective mnemonics involve embodied aspects and practices. And though the corpus of Collective Memory Studies (CMS) has helped us better understand how social groups relate to time, especially to the past, it has taken little notice of how embodied social actors collectively relate to time. In contrast, expanding upon the French School and the French sociological tradition, I argue for an approach that, on the one hand, connects mental schemata to bodily schemata to social frameworks. And on the other hand, I speak of how embodied social actors collectively relate to common pasts and presents; and of how embodiment can thus provide a structure of possibilities for individuals and groups, as well as shared compasses and orientations that help people move toward certain futures while foreclosing others.

Key Words: Embodied Collective Memory • French School of Sociology • psychoanalytical theory • time

Body & Society, Vol. 12, No. 3, 51-73 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X06067156


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