University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Prog Brain Res. 2022;274(1):167-176. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.07.002. Epub 2022 Sep 2.
The interdisciplinary concept of collective memory emerged within the Social Sciences and Humanities. Going back to the theories of French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, the attribute "collective" that precedes the noun "memory" implies that the process of remembering unfolds within societies. Individuals and collectives, therefore, remember in present social frames. Moreover, through remembering, they each establish a continuity between the past, present, and future. This process, in turn, shapes their identities, behavior, attitudes, and choice. In its collective form, memory thus is lifted out of the minds and brains of individuals and instead is socially generated in societal frameworks. With this, collective memory is no more only about the past but instead becomes about the present and future. As a result, memory is rendered highly constructed, political, and contested.
集体记忆的跨学科概念出现在社会科学和人文学科中。回溯到法国社会学家莫里斯·哈布瓦赫的理论，名词“记忆”之前的形容词“集体”意味着记忆的过程是在社会中展开的。因此，个体和集体都是在当下的社会框架中进行记忆的。此外，通过记忆，他们在过去、现在和未来之间建立了一种连续性。这个过程反过来又塑造了他们的身份、行为、态度和选择。这样，集体记忆就不再仅仅是关于过去的，而是关于现在和未来的。因此，记忆变得高度建构、政治化和有争议。
