Geography and Memory [electronic resource] : Explorations in Identity, Place and Becoming /
Jones, Owain.author.
Garde-Hansen, Joanne.author.
This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming. Drawing upon cultural geography, the book provides an accessible framework to approach key aspects of memory, remembering, archives, commemoration and forgetting in modern societies.
Based on presentations given at a session of a 2009 international conference sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: memories of geographies/geographies of memories / Owain Jones and Joanne Garde-Hansen -- Identity. Clearing out a cupboard: memory, materiality and transitions / John Horton and Peter Kraftl -- Copper places: affective circuitries / Caitlin Desilvey -- Mapping grief and memory in John Banville's The sea / Avril Maddrell -- Brooding on Bornholm: postmemory, painting and place / Judith Tucker --Place. Family photographs: memories, narratives, places / Elisabeth Roberts -- The Southdean Project and beyond "essaying" site as memory work / Iain Biggs -- "The Elephant is part of us and our village": reflections on memories, places and (non-) spatial objects / Marc Redepenning -- Graffiti heritage: Civil War memory in Virginia / Terri Moreau and Derek H. Alderman -- Becoming. Geopolitics and memories: walking through Plymouth, England / James D Sidaway -- A domestic geography of everyday terror: remembering and forgetting the house I grew up in / Belinda Morrissey -- Moving through memory: notes from a circus lot / Ariel Terranova-Webb -- Making memories our own (Way): non-state remembrances of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia / Hamzah Muzaini -- Lobotomizing logics: A critique of memory sports and the business of mapping the mind / Gareth Hoskins -- Memoir: On Terra Firma. Surfaces and slopes: remembering the world-under-foot / Hayden Lorimer.
This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming. Drawing upon cultural geography, the book provides an accessible framework to approach key aspects of memory, remembering, archives, commemoration and forgetting in modern societies.
Intellectual life-History.
Geography.
Cultural studies.
Communication.
Area studies.
Performing arts.
Intellectual Studies.
Geography, general.
Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.
Area Studies.
Performing Arts.