Changing Relationship between Collective Memory and History Writing
Changing Relationship between Collective Memory and History Writing

Summary/Abstract: Both personal remembering and collective or social memory have become today, and for many years now, an acute question for scholarly discourse. The reason for this development is in all probability a new and refashioned need for individual and group identity, 􀃁 owing from the obvious erosion of the old and well-established community identity, the national one.1 This change seems to be felt everywhere due to the parallel processes of globalization and regionalization. The recently emerging sub-national and/or supra-national community identities resulting therefore also need some historical support through the lively memory of a usable past to legitimate. This development has had its impact on historical scholarship, or at least the discipline of history, which has (as often) been engaged in creating and sustaining identity as national.

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