Presentation: Historical criminology and collective memory: New directions. Dr. Daniel Gyollai – postdoc at the Centre for Subjectivity Research (CFS), University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the project ‘Who are We? Philosophy and the Social Sciences.’.
Historical criminologists have emphasised the role of collective memory in shaping collective emotions and actions. However, the concept has been relatively neglected in criminological research and is mainly used in the context of trauma, intergroup conflict, and hostility. Perhaps this can be accounted for by the view that collective memory merely provides explicit, symbolic resources for the identity construction of groups in the form of shared representations of historical events, monuments, stories, and the like. Nevertheless, memory studies have moved beyond this narrow interpretation of collective memory by studying those implicit processes that shape the life of a collective unnoticed. This paper explores the criminological relevance of this new line of research.
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