Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Memories of Geographies/Geographies of Memories PART I: IDENTITY Clearing Out A Cupboard: Memory, Materiality And Transitions; J.Horton & P.Kraftl Copper Places: Affective Circuitries; C.DeSilvey Mapping Grief And Memory In John Banville's The Sea; A.Maddrell Brooding on Bornholm: Postmemory, Painting And Place; J.Tucker PART II: PLACE Family Photographs: Memories, Narratives, Places; E.Roberts The Southdean Project And Beyond - 'Essaying' Site As Memory Work; I.Biggs 'The Elephant Is Part Of Us And Our Village': Reflections On Memories, Places And (Non-) Spatial Objects; M.Redepenning Graffiti Heritage: Civil War Memory In Virginia; T.Moreau & D.H.Alderman PART III: BECOMING Geopolitics And Memories: Walking Through Plymouth, England; J.D.Sidaway A Domestic Geography Of Everyday Terror: Remembering And Forgetting The House I Grew Up In; B.Morrissey Moving Through Memory: Notes From A Circus Lot; A.Terranova-Webb Making Memories Our Own (Way): Non-State Remembrances Of The Second World War In Perak, Malaysia; H.Muzaini Lobotomizing Logics: A Critique Of Memory Sports And The Business Of Mapping The Mind; G.Hoskins A MEMOIR: ON TERRA FIRMA Surfaces and Slopes - Remembering the World-Under-Foot; H.Lorimer Index
