Adaptive Collective Memory: Bartlett, Enactivism and Group Identity
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour May 9, 2025 Daniel Gyollai
It has been recently proposed that memory studies should move beyond focusing on explicit, identity‐creating and backward‐looking forms of collective memory, such as commemorative remembering, and pay more attention to implicit memory processes within social groups. This article demonstrates that, in taking this advice, one would throw the baby out with the bathwater. Revisiting Bartlett's...