Open access essay by Mary Corcoran, Robert Hamm, Ruairi Weiner in the Irish Journal of Sociology: Blurring the distinction between the researcher and the researched: Doing Collective Memory-Work online in Covid times
Mirrored from Other Education: Models for distinguishing practical applications of CMW
The entire collection of essays in the Special Issue of Other Education is available here.
Frigga Haug’s Webpage, and hosted there her research guide from 1999.
Dating back to 1982 in the journal Das Argument one of the earliest documents relating to CMW (in German), go to page 635: Gewerkschafterinnentagebuch. (Diary of female trade union members).
Also in German, an early controversy about the use of CMW by women and men, starting with a contribution by Gerhard Herrgott (page 345), replied to by Kornelia Hauser (page 555), and two further comments by Gerhard Herrgott (page 87) and Rüdiger Röver (page 85).
Betty Johnson used CMW in exploring gendered appropriation of Mathematics, see her chapter (page 226) on “Mathematics: An abstracted Discourse.”
Mathematics is also in the focus of Christine Ingleton’s application of CMW in a study on the role of emotion in learning.
Brigitte Hipfl made a case for CMW being used in dealing with media experiences. You find it here.
A brief piece in German by Frigga Haug about CMW and its use in giving directions for a conscious path of action.
Frigga Haug’s lecture, held at Duke University, October 1997. This was later elaborated as a chapter for a book which never appeared. Part of it is included in: »Memory Work: the Key to Women’s Anxiety«, in: S. Radstone (ed.), Memory and Methodology, Oxford-New York 2000, pp. 155-178.
In German: Feministisch arbeiten mit Marx. A slightly revamped text that appeared in the collection of Frigga Haug’s lectures on CMW.
Klaus Weber reports about using CMW with social workers and psychologists in a seminar on racism/right-wing radicalism. This is also in German, from 1998.
Memory-Workers Doing Memory-Work on Memory-Work in which a collective of women in Australia explored issues around power in applying CMW.
Patricia Farrar on Memory-Work as a Method to Explore Sensitive Research Topics.
Lorraine Friend and Bevan Grant describe their use of CMW as a method in teaching students in marketing, sport and leisure classes.
A selection of theses in which CMW applications and adaptations were employed:
Deanna Arelis (1995) Bookmarks : girlhood reading that marked us women. Education. Lethbridge, Canada.
Patricia Farrar (1998) Relinquishment and abjection: A semanalysis of the meaning of losing a baby to adoption. Nursing, Midwifery and Health. Sydney, Australia.
Mary Jane Kehily (1999) Learning sex and doing gender: cultures of heterosexuality in the secondary school. Education. London, UK.
Sharn Rocco (1999) One day my prince will come: the discursive production of the desire for (hetero)sexual marriage. Education. Queensland, Australia.
Lynn Burnett (2007) Purple Poppies in/and Fields of Green: Young Lesbians Speak Out. Education. Griffith University, New England
Margaret Follows (2007) Looking for a fairer assessment of children’s learning development and attainment in the infant years: an educational action research case study. Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth, UK.
Ralph Hammond (2013) The construction of physiotherapists’ identities through collective memory work. Physiotherapy. University of Brighton, UK.
Rachel Robbins (2013) Constructions of Social Work: The Writing Stories Project. Health, Psychology and Social Care. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Philip Taucher (2014) Collective Memory Work and Political Activist Ethnography: A synthesis of two modes of enquiry in social movements. Higher and Adult Education. University of Toronto, CA.
Robert Hamm (2014) Negotiating LegitimacyReflection as a Social ActReflection Processes of Primary School Teachers on Rituals and Ritualisations. Sligo IT, Sligo, IE.
Angela Coffee (2016) Stories and Bodies: Reading and Writing White Femininity . Education. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Erin Dyke (2016) The Fight for the Right to Teach: Mapping the Terrain of the “Diversity Gap” in Teacher Education. Education. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Erin Stutelberg (2016) These Are Stories About Our Bodies: Collective Memory Work and the Pedagogical Imaginaries of Our Teacher Bodies . Education. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr (2016) Women Who Love Women in Jamaica. Education. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Maria Vlachou (2016) Researching Experience in Global Higher Education. A Study of International Business Students in the UK. Business School. University of Leicester, UK.
Jenna Cushing-Leubner (2017) Accompaniment for the climb: Becoming reparational language educators of Spanish as a ‘heritage’ language. Education. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Tara Prairie (2018) Collective memories of LGBTQ+ youth in Tennessee high schools.
Haleh Mir Miri (2023) Diasporic Body-Memory Politics: Sexualized Public Gender-Role Surveillance in Post-Revolutionary and Post-War Iran. University of Saskatchewan