Daughters’ Stories: Family Memory and Generational Amnesia

Koleva, Daniela

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“…Alexander (2009) and Koleva (2009) go beyond the layers of individual, collective (public) and community memory. Looking at generation and family systems theories they add generational memory as a further layer in memory where insight can be gained.…”

Section: A Shared Authority On Culturementioning

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“…Looking at generation and family systems theories they add generational memory as a further layer in memory where insight can be gained. Koleva (2009) shows how personal and collective memory across three generations in a Bulgarian‐Jewish family reveals intergenerational transmission and rejection of Jewish identity, but also and importantly, how personal consciousness can be (re)shaped by shifting phases in political and social attitudes and collective memory. When reviewed for interlocking themes and disconnections across two or more generations, the family story can reveal how individual life stories intersect with social structures, cultural myth, religion and historical change by illuminating the individual as he or she is positioned within generational memory.…”

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Davies

2011

Journal of Historical Research in Marketing

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PurposeThe paper's aim are to: review the value and credibility of oral history for historical research in marketing; and conceptualize oral history as more than a data source in historical research but also a subject to investigate memory and a conceptual approach for understanding historical events.Design/methodology/approachThe paper comprises an international historical review of oral history theory and practice linked to an examination of oral history methods in marketing.FindingsOral history is perceived as an “essentially contested concept”; a lack of consensus on universal principles has been sustained over a long time and has led to incredible diversity in theory and practice but has also made it difficult to grasp and manage. It is shown to be perspectival with analytical reach beyond individuals' recollected experiences and actions. Memory is identified as the subject as well as the source for oral history and a misconception that oral history can provide literal expressions of what experience and events were like is clarified. Oral history has been under‐utilized in marketing history and this is presented as a methodological paradox given the ubiquity of the interview in the marketing discipline more generally.Originality/valueCentral to oral history are a range of questions around issues of memory and remembering that have been largely unacknowledged in marketing and the oral history approach is perhaps uniquely placed to address some of these. Oral history critically examines the making of history and the paper highlights some of the issues this presents for historical research. Disciplinary efforts to standardize oral history are queried.

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Section: A Shared Authority On Culturementioning

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Section: A Shared Authority On Culturementioning

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2011

Journal of Historical Research in Marketing

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“…By locating family signatures we show how family represents a mediating layer between individuals and culture (Koleva 2009). Individuals make sense of and perform identity within and against family identities.…”

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“…Critical oral history offers several advantages over other longitudinal qualitative methods: it avoids the problems of cross-sectional research designs that underestimate the complexity and entangled stands of life journeys (Lee et al, 2011); it incorporates and situates individual experiences in context (Askegaard and Linnet, 2011); and it offers an alternative to undertaking interviews with participants at two different time periods to trace their journeys. Oral historians use a layered approach in their analysis of life-history interviews and have shown how small, mundane, and everyday thoughts mark a movement in history and discourse (Davies, 2011;Koleva, 2009;Thompson, 1981).…”

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In the Family Way: Bringing a Mother-Daughter (Matrilineal) Perspective to Retail Innovation and Consumer Culture

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Fitchett

2015

Environ Plan A

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Davies A and Fitchett, J.A. (2015) "In the family way: bringing a mother-daughter (matrilineal) perspective to retail innovation and consumer culture" Environment and Planning A, 47 (3): [727][728][729][730][731][732][733][734][735][736][737][738][739][740][741][742][743] In the family way: bringing a mother-daughter (matrilineal) perspective to retail innovation and consumer cultureHere we apply the multi-level narrative approach of critical oral history to develop intergenerational narratives that show how social change in consumer culture is produced and enacted through family interrelations. The research uses intergenerational storytelling to describe the experiences and memories of women as mothers and daughters in families. Places and practices around provisioning, budgeting, cooking, childcare and domestic labour provide the setting in which the dialectics of family and gender are transformed and enacted through evolving family signatures. Families develop enduring myths which function as a means of organising and making sense of consumption. The oral histories show how family signatures operate and proliferate, how they are shaped by retail innovation and change and how they become structured into everyday practices, attitudes and family norms. This further demonstrates that family is important to understand the relationship between individuals and consumer culture.

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Negotiating Transnational Belonging: Post-WWII Migration as Life Experience and Collective Memory

Koleva

2023

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the subjective experience of nationality and (trans)national belonging based on biographical interviews with two groups of Jewish participants born in Bulgaria before the Second World War, and residing in Bulgaria and in Israel, respectively. I focus on their retrospective accounts of the mass exodus to Israel in 1948–1949 and the maintenance of transnational family and kinship ties thereafter, during the Cold War. The comparison brings into relief the challenges of their integration into the respective national contexts, and the ways in which the memory cultures in the two countries have molded biographical reminiscences. I argue that despite these differences, a unique case of a transnational generation is at hand, formed by their past experiences as well as by the re-negotiation of these experiences, which was made possible from the 1990s on.

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Daughters’ Stories: Family Memory and Generational Amnesia

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