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| A REVIEW OF STUDIES ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GEOGRAPHY |
| QIAN Li-li, ZHANG Jie, ZHENG Chun-hui, LIU Pei-xue, ZHANG Jia-rong, ZHANG Hong-lei |
| School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China |
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Abstract Accompanying with trend of "memory wave" and "memory craze", collective memory is becoming one of the burgeoning research topics in the field of humanities and social sciences. Space, landscapes and rituals can arouse personal memory, meanwhile, one can construct the psychological place and form place meaning, place identity and place attachment through memory. Those processes also make influences on the real place protection and construction, such as historical heritage and cultural landscape constructions, and city renewal and reconstruction. Through the literature research of collective memory on the perspective of geography domestic (papers from CNKI) and foreign (papers from SCI,SSCI and Pro Quest), a review and comments were made mainly from the aspects of the theoretical origin, research contents, method etc. And a research framework and further direction were put forward for better understanding and using the theory. In general, the studies of collective memory mainly focus on three parts: people, memory carrier and the memory mechanism, trying to explore the features of collective memory in the tangible and intangible aspects of space, place, landscape, ritual, and tourism etc. and revealing the complex mechanism behind the phenomenon of collective memory, such as the politics, competition-negotiation, and the power difference. Research methods are various, among which most are the qualitative methods mainly through way of typical case studies, very few using quantitative research. Compared with the upsurge researches and plentiful achievements abroad, the domestic research is on a start-up, and the process of theory introducing. Hence, drawing upon the foreign researches, to promote the theory localization and the relevant research in China is particularly important.
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Received: 01 December 2014
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2015, Vol. 30 
