Memory in the twenty-first century: New critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences
- Submitting institution
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 35
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137520586
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781137520579
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 200,000-word book is the culmination of six years of multi-disciplinary, international research by over 40 researchers brought together by Groes at 3 networking events, a dozen public engagement events and an international conference. Groes’s contribution consists of a General Introduction, 6 thematic introductions, and 2 chapters totalling over 33,000 words. The paradigm-shifting nature of this book lies in Groes’s synthesising of the multiplicity of bleeding edge inquiries into contemporary cognition, whilst pointing out new strategies for the Humanities subject under attack by neoliberal forces. The book is central to the ‘memory boom’ of the 2010s.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This 200,000-word edited collection culminates a six-year journey by Groes as Principal Investigator on The Memory Network, a multi-disciplinary, international research network with contributors from fields including philosophy, climate change studies, psychology, neurosciences, neuropsychology, the creative arts, and media studies. Groes led networking workshops, a high-profile public engagement series, and hosted an international conference with leading thinkers to explore cutting-edge memory research. He collated this research for distribution and discussion at public workshops, and transcribed written and oral feedback. Through a careful process of thought-scaffolding and intellectual speed-dating among nearly 100 Network researchers, these events gradually generated serendipitous critical-creative thought on the most important issues facing society in the twenty-first century: the impact of digital technology on cognition and biological memory; the climate change emergency; diseases of the aging brain; and new forms of (post-human) subjectivity. Groes organised and directed the many lines of inquiry and, supported by a core team of researchers, incorporated these in this touchstone book. Groes not only edited contributions of the 40 researchers, but also operated a rigorous, dialogic drafting process that ensured that all chapters and sections spoke to one another. Another original feature, the innovative ‘condensed’ 3-4000 word chapters, has sparked a new way of presenting critical thought, co-opted by, for instance, Patricia Pisters’s Worlding the Brain (Brill, 2022), whilst creating a bridge to the general public. The paradigm-shifting if not unique nature of this book lies in Groes’s synthesis of the many crucial lines of inquiry that have impacted on interdisciplinary thinking and practice in the arts, humanities, and sciences. This has created a blueprint for interdisciplinary projects including (internally) Groes’ smell-memory in the Black Country and his AHRC-funded Novel Perceptions projects, and (externally) the neuroaesthetic Worlding the Brain research group and other projects coming under AHRC’s ‘Science in Culture’ theme.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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