This article contributes to discussions surrounding the development of ‘analytical tools’
sensitive to the fluid nature of collective memory and all its ‘varieties, contradictions, and
dynamism’ (Olick, 2008: 159). It explores the methodological challenges of investigating how
young people in New Zealand and the United Kingdom ...
This article contributes to discussions surrounding the development of ‘analytical tools’
sensitive to the fluid nature of collective memory and all its ‘varieties, contradictions, and
dynamism’ (Olick, 2008: 159). It explores the methodological challenges of investigating how
young people in New Zealand and the United Kingdom negotiate processes and practices of
war remembrance and how, as researchers, we can begin to decipher the diverse responses
young people have in recalling and making sense of their society’s violent past. Examples from
earlier research projects, led by each co-author, in the UK and New Zealand are used to
problematise the methodological challenges in our respective projects with the aim to
encourage discussion around developing youth-centred, inclusive and participatory
methodologies that unpack the cultural memories of war and situate young people’s voices
prominently in the research process.
