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A Few Pieces of Thread

Collage, Intragenerational Memory, and Place

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Productive Remembering and Social Agency

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I do collage. I am neither a collage artist nor a scrapbooker. I might describe myself as a visual researcher, given my doctoral work made use of both found and made photography (Allnutt 2009). Sparked by a graduate course in Interpretive Inquiry, I have collaged for over a decade in fits and bursts, both on my own and in the context of a collage research group called the Artful Analysis and Representation in Research Collective (AARRC) (Allnutt et al. 2005; Butler-Kisber et al. 2002–2003).

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  1. McGill University, Canada

    Teresa Strong-Wilson

  2. McGill University, Canada

    Claudia Mitchell

  3. McGill University, Canada

    Allnutt Susann

  4. University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

    Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

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Allnutt, S. (2013). A Few Pieces of Thread. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_11

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