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Adaptive Collective Memory: Bartlett, Enactivism and Group Identity.

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Title: Adaptive Collective Memory: Bartlett, Enactivism and Group Identity.
Authors: Gyollai, Daniel (AUTHOR)
Source: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. Jun2025, Vol. 55 Issue 2, p1-11. 11p.
Subjects: Explicit memory, Group identity, Implicit memory, Social groups, Social interaction, Collective memory
Abstract: 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 theory of remembering from the perspective of contemporary enactivist accounts of cognition, it argues that no form of collective memory is independent of identity and all forms of collective remembering have an implicit aspect. More specifically, the significance of the collective past and group identity are dynamically and reciprocally constructed through a history of habitual interactions within the group. On this view, group identity is maintained by a highly embodied system of collective interactive schemas that are constantly reactualised in the ever‐changing social, cultural and political environment. It follows that commemorative remembering, as a paradigmatic example of such collective habits, is better described as an adaptive, future‐oriented becoming than merely a backward‐looking, explicit recollection of memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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