ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, the main sociological ideas that will be used throughout the book are introduced, most notably the concept of collective memory, with the author presenting not only its classical Halbwachsian understanding but also proposing a division of various contemporary approaches to the question of social memory, categorising them into four groups based on their dichotomies (past/present, society/culture, formal/global, and innovative/critical). Further in the chapter, other key elements of the theory of collective memory are analysed, i.e., collective forgetting, cultural trauma (a rereading of which is proposed as collective trauma-memory), and the notion of agents and carriers of memory.
