Afterword

Abstract

After a long durée of more than a hundred years (since the work of Wilhelm Wundt, Henri Bergson and others in the late nineteenth century) and a conjuncture of some three decades (since Pierre Nora’s Lieux de mémoire and the ‘rediscovery’ of Halbwachsian theory), memory studies has come into its own, both intellectually and institutionally. The chapters in this volume are more than sufficient testament to, and result of, this maturity. In them and elsewhere, we are finally beginning to see the contours of the newly mature field: common sources, shared terminology, established lines of disagreement, and resultant empirical and theoretical cumulation.