Paul Connerton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Connerton

British sociologist

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1940

Place of Birth: Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: sociologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Paul Connerton (April 22, 1940 – August 19, 2019) was a British social anthropologist.
Born in Chesterfield, he was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School for Boys, Jesus College, Oxford and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
He is best known for his work in memory studies. Connerton's first book, How Societies Remember (1989), opened the discussion of collective memory (per Maurice Halbwachs and others) to include bodily gestures, finding in clothing, manners, musical performance, and other socially negotiated practices locii where memory is "silted" (to use his verb) into human corporeal consciousness and praxis.
Connerton followed up this work with How Modernity Forgets (2009), which emphasizes what Connerton calls "place memory," or memory that is dependent upon topography and particularly upon topography as it relates to the human body.
Connerton argues that modernity is characterized by a particular sort of forgetting "associated with processes that separate social life from locality and from human dimensions: superhuman speed, megacities that are so enormous as to be unmemorable, consumerism disconnected from the labour process, the short lifespan of urban architecture, the disappearance of walkable cities."He died in 2019 at the age of 79.