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HEIndividual fellowship2023–2025

MeTC · Memory in Times of Crisis: Argentina, Spain and Greece, 1998 to now

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-09-01 → 2025-08-31
EU contribution
€206,888
Participants
1
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Results in brief

Memory in Times of Crisis: Argentina, Spain and Greece, 1998 to now

The project aimed at opening an international discussion on how people (re)see the Recent Past in networked societies in times of economic recession exploring how economic crises affect(ed) the ways in which societies remember/forget the recent past and how societies in crisis discuss (memories of) the recent past using social media drawing on Facebook, Instagram, and forums, three social media appropriate for microhistorical and sociological analysis. It focused on three historically and sociologically comparable societies that experienced crises between 1998 and now: Argentina, Spain. and Greece. The project aimed to explore interplays between memory and cultures of connectivity, and to offer an adaptable methodological model for exploring memory politics through Digital Ethnography and Oral History. Moreover, it aimed, to comparatively analyse the relations between crises and memory of the recent past. The project explored how subjects of different ages, genders, classes, educational backgrounds, and political positions engage with crises and how their methods affect(ed) the politics of online remembrance and forgetting.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

MeTC examines how people in networked societies recall the recent past (ReP) in times of economic recession through the lens of social media (SoM). It explores the connections between crises and memory politics by investigating Facebook, Instagram, and internet forums in Argentina, Spain, and Greece (ASG) – three countries which transitioned to democracy between 1974 and 1982 and experienced optimism and prosperity in the proceeding years before they suffered from economic crises. MeTC is a comparative, interdisciplinary historical and digital-ethnographic project which links two methods of digital ethnography (invisible observation; immersive cohabitation) with oral history and intermedial and multimodal analysis. The project aims to: a) analyse memories of the ReP during crises in SoM in ASG; b) employ its own SoM to trigger discussions on the relationships between the present and the ReP on the basis of stimuli gathered through archival research; c) scrutinise the politics of these SoM-driven mnemonic communities through oral interviews from people engaged in the formation of the politics of digital collective memory in ASG. MeTC provides an adaptable model for how historians and media scholars can turn embarrassment in the face of the SoM-driven explosion of amateur historical storytelling on the web into a source of inspiration and a channel of communication among these two communities of scholars and the public. Drawing on the host’s interdisciplinary capacity and synergies with experts in ASG, MeTC promises to provide a bold academic and social impact in these ways: a) publication in journals, and the delivery of a hybrid workshop and seminars; b) interaction with popular audiences through SoM, a photo exhibition and open public speaking events organised with immigrants from ASG in Sweden. Ultimately, MeTC will enable research on (digital) memory to be a vehicle for interaction between the academy and society through culture and education.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • LINNEUNIVERSITETET · VaxjoCoordinatorSweden

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union