Tracing the impact of the 'memory wars' on science and culture,
Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to
the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy.
Campbell's work provides a close conceptual analysis of the
strategies used to challenge women's memories, particularly those
meant to provoke a general social alarm about suggestibility. Sue
Campbell argues that we cannot come to an adequate understanding of
the nature and value of memory through a distorted view of
rememberers. The harmful stereotypes of women's passivity and
instability that have repopulated discussions of abuse have led
many theorists to regard the social dimensions of remembering only
negatively, as a threat or contaminant to memory integrity. Such
models of memory cannot help us grasp the nature of harms linked to
oppression, as these models imply that changed group understandings
of the past are incompatible with the integrity of personal memory.
Campbell uses the false memory debates to defend a feminist
reconceptualization of personal memory as relational, social, and
subject to politics. Memory is analyzed as a complex of cognitive
abilities and social/narrative activities where one's success or
failure as a rememberer is both affected by one's social location
and has profound ramifications for one's cultural status as a moral
agent.
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