Chapter 5: Remembering Traumatic Experiences Across Time and Place: How the Dialogical Turn Echoes Memory in the Wild

As the above quote suggests, the harmonizing of spectators and actors in the drive to discuss epistemological problems of the day remains an honourable aim within the discipline of social psychology. Brown and Reavey (this volume) illuminate this quote and the spirit of the Niels Bohr lectures across time and place by inviting us on a journey to explore an ecological perspective within the field of memory studies. Their extensive and comprehensive account reflects the complexity of human existence set within a tapestry of interconnecting social, cultural, and philosophical trajectories. The authors argue that modern day social psychology has largely ignored the interdependent relationships across these trajectories. The quest to go beyond a prominent cognitive approach within the discipline and to explore alternative epistemological avenues where the importance of the context, lies central to their core argument. The development of their three proposed concepts, that of life space, setting specificity and experience ecologies, are outlined in their chapter, to offer fresh insights into the relationship between human experiences and memory processes across dimensions of time and space.