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Introduction.(Panel Discussion)

Journal of European Studies

| June 01, 2005 | Boutin, Aimee; Hargreaves, Alec G.; Leushuis, Reinier; Walters, Lori J. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sage Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In the twenty years since Pierre Nora began publishing his landmark work on Les Lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984-92), the study of memory, especially in its collective forms, has become a veritable industry. If historians such as Nora were to the fore in giving momentum to the field of study, scholars in many other disciplines have also been actively involved. It has become increasingly clear that tile construction of memory is imbricated in a complex network of social, psychological, political and cultural processes which require analytical tools spanning a wide range of scholarly disciplines. We cannot understand how collective memories gain currency or, a contrario, slip ...

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