L’occasion perdue est un motif courant dans les représentations littéraires et populaires qui accompagnent le ressouvenir. Traditionnellement, les regrets du « chemin qui n’a pas été pris » jettent ...un éclairage nostalgique sur la vie. Mais cela n’est qu’un des aspects de l’occasion perdue. Jusqu’ici, il semble qu’on ait négligé la façon dont ce motif apparaît dans les récits quotidiens, comment il est conçu et valorisé, comment il entre en relation avec les circonstances, les plans, les rêves et les désirs d’une vie. En s’appuyant sur des entrevues en profondeur avec des femmes d’origines et d’âges divers, l’article examine comment deux d’entre elles se situent par rapport à leurs choix de vie et par rapport à des chemins qu’elles n’ont pas empruntés. Le motif de l’occasion perdue est redéfini de manière à y reconnaître une triple orientation vers le passé, le présent et l’avenir, un motif dont la mise en oeuvre implique à la fois la mémoire et l’imagination. Le ressouvenir de l’occasion perdue apparaît ainsi comme un trait caractéristique de la construction symbolique du soi dans la vie quotidienne.
Painful Pasts Emily Keightley; Michael Pickering
Research Methods for Memory Studies,
05/2013
Book Chapter
While memory studies has emerged as a diverse and heterogeneous body of work, a common issue over the last two decades has been with the ways in which the past is reconstructed in the present, ...regardless of whether this involves macro-structures such as the nation-state or the everyday minutiae of personal experience. The different perspectives and their associated scales of analysis which are brought to bear on this concern may be various, but they share a concern with the use of the past as a resource in making experience and social life meaningful, in producing or challenging cultural norms and
Introduction Michael Pickering; Emily Keightley
Research Methods for Memory Studies,
05/2013
Book Chapter
The ever-amiable Georgian clergyman, Sydney Smith, was one day walking with a friend through a narrow street in old Edinburgh when they came across two women leaning out of opposite attic windows ...cursing and arguing with each other. They listened for a while, after which Smith observed that it was no wonder they were in disagreement, for they were arguing from diff erent premises.¹ This is a suitable parable for memory studies because all too often, arguments, along with their attendant suppositions, claims and statements, are joined from diff erent premises without it being clear why those premises have been
Vernacular Remembering Michael Pickering; Emily Keightley
Research Methods for Memory Studies,
05/2013
Book Chapter
The previous chapter dealt with methods for researching and analysing television’s construction of memory through programming designed to commemorate a specific, historically significant event, or ...delineate the family history of famous people in relation to a broader historical canvas. As was shown, memory as resource and re-enactment in these programmes becomes operative through various combinations of personal and public memory, and while they are nationally broadcast, their reception is local and particular. It is to the local and particular that we now turn in a more concerted fashion. We continue to focus on visual media, but move from memory construction
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