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Geography and Memory

Explorations in Identity, Place and Becoming

  • Owain Jones
  • Joanne Garde-Hansen
Book

Part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series (PMMS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
    PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Owain Jones, Joanne Garde-Hansen
      Pages 1-18

  3. Identity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-23
      PDF
    2. Clearing out a Cupboard: Memory, Materiality and Transitions
      John Horton, Peter Kraftl
      Pages 25-44
    3. Copper Places: Affective Circuitries
      Caitlin DeSilvey
      Pages 45-57
    4. Mapping Grief and Memory in John Banville’s The Sea
      Avril Maddrell
      Pages 58-67
    5. Brooding on Bornholm: Postmemory, Painting and Place
      Judith Tucker
      Pages 68-84

  4. Place

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-90
      PDF
    2. Family Photographs: Memories, Narratives, Place
      Elisabeth Roberts
      Pages 91-108
    3. The Southdean Project and Beyond — ‘Essaying’ Site as Memory Work
      Iain Biggs
      Pages 109-123
    4. ‘The Elephant Is Part of Us and Our Village’: Reflections on Memories, Places and (Non-) Spatial Objects
      Marc Redepenning
      Pages 124-138
    5. Graffiti Heritage: Civil War Memory in Virginia
      Terri Moreau, Derek H. Alderman
      Pages 139-160

  5. Becoming

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 161-166
      PDF
    2. Geopolitics and Memories: Walking through Plymouth, England
      James D. Sidaway
      Pages 167-183
    3. A Domestic Geography of Everyday Terror: Remembering and Forgetting the House I Grew Up In
      Belinda Morrissey
      Pages 184-198
    4. Moving Through Memory: Notes from a Circus Lot
      Ariel Terranova-Webb
      Pages 199-215
    5. Making Memories Our Own (Way): Non-State Remembrances of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia
      Hamzah Muzaini
      Pages 216-233
    6. Lobotomizing Logics: A Critique of Memory Sports and the Business of Mapping the Mind
      Gareth Hoskins
      Pages 234-249

  6. A Memoir: (On Terra Firma)

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 251-251
      PDF
    2. Surfaces and Slopes — Remembering the World-Under-Foot
      Hayden Lorimer
      Pages 253-257
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 258-272
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

geography geopolitics identity individual memory Plymouth

Editors and affiliations

  • Owain Jones
    • 1
  • Joanne Garde-Hansen
    • 2
  1. 1.Countryside and Community Research InstituteUK
  2. 2.University of GloucestershireUK

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