This article, a prologue to the special issue ‘Memory Worlds: Reframing Time and the Past’, is a follow-up to the plenary session ‘Connecting Memory Traditions around the World’, organised by the authors in the Third Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association held in Madrid (2019). Elaborating on the work of critical physicists such as Rovelli and Barad, it calls into question hegemonic conceptions of linear time and the past in two ways. First, by bringing in crucial concepts elaborated in the field of memory studies that anticipate, support or may accommodate this claim. Secondly, by summoning social anthropology to the debate, as a field where subaltern epistemologies of time and the past have become a crucial area of research in the last decades. The article calls for the broadening of the Memory Studies agenda in order to move beyond implicit well-established conceptions of linear time that may obscure or obliterate alternate epistemologies, usually dwelling in the margins.

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记忆世界：重温时间和过去-简介

本文是“记忆世界：重新定义时间和过去”专刊的序言，是作者在第三届记忆年会上组织的全体会议“连接世界各地的记忆传统”的序幕研究协会在马德里举行（2019年）。详细阐述了Rovelli和Barad等重要物理学家的工作，它以两种方式质疑线性时间和过去的霸权主义概念。首先，通过引入在记忆研究领域中拟定的关键概念，这些概念可以预期，支持或可能满足这一要求。其次，通过召集社会人类学来进行辩论，在过去的几十年中，时间和过去的次要认识论已成为一个至关重要的研究领域。