Editor's Introduction

Anna Green; Paula Hamilton

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS29.6279

Authors

Anna Green Victoria University of Wellington https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0997-068X
Paula Hamilton University of Technology Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS29.6279

Abstract

This thematic issue of the journal was conceived during a symposium at Victoria University of Wellington in November 2018 on the theme of ‘The Family as Mnemonic Community’. At the symposium, funded through a New Zealand Marsden grant for the project ‘The Missing Link’, a group of international and multidisciplinary researchers shared their investigations into family memory and discussed four broad questions:

- what kinds of stories or information do families pass down the generations?

- how are family stories about the past transmitted, remembered, and received?

- why do family memories and stories about the past matter in the present?

- and what are the advantages and disadvantages of different scholarly approaches?

Five out of six of the authors in this issue presented papers at the symposium, and their articles are revised or reconceptualised for publication here. The remaining author was invited to submit a paper once we scoped out the majority of submissions and decided on the shape of the volume.

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Author Biographies

Anna Green, Victoria University of Wellington

Anna Green has been at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington since 2012. An oral historian, her publications on family memory include“Family Memory, 'Things’, and Counterfactual Thinking,” (Memory Studies, 2017) and “Intergenerational Family Stories: Private, Parochial, Pathological?” (Journal of Family History,2013). She is currently working on ‘The Missing Link’, a Marsden-funded research project exploring intergenerational family memory among descendants of nineteenth-century European settlers in New Zealand.

Paula Hamilton, University of Technology Sydney

Paula Hamilton is a Visiting Fellow in History at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Paula is a cultural historian who has published widely in oral history and memory studies, and explores the links between personal and public memories. Her most recent published books include Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia (2019, edited with Kate Darian-Smith) and A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses (2017, edited with Joy Damousi).