Roger C Aden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger C Aden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger C |
| FAMILY NAME | Aden |
| SIGNATURE | ADEN R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Vision of the Good Society in Stone: The Nebraska Capitol as Aspirational Memory Node
This article outlines the notions of aspirational memory and nodal memory, then uses the combined concept of aspirational memory node to illustrate how the Nebraska capitol’s architecture and aesthetics draw upon the past to inspire Nebraskans to enact a moral vision of “noble living.” The capitol imagines this future good society by gathering a collection of public memories and molding them into (1) a political vision of democratic and just gove…
Returning the Gaze: A Visual Analysis of Jack Iwata’s Photography in Japanese American Internment Camps
This work explores photography’s potential to return the gaze and challenge powerholders within spaces of control. The authors analyzed 167 photographs from the Japanese American National Museum Jack Iwata Photo Collection to understand disciplinary mechanisms within a carceral landscape and the potential surveillance therein. The authors concluded that these historical photographs can not only supplement historical narratives of internment but a…
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism
While decades of scholarship demonstrate that U.S. history textbooks have incrementally told a fuller story of U.S. history, our review of nine prominent high school history textbooks illustrates how these texts perpetuate systemic racism and uphold the socially constructed centering of whiteness. Those contemporary textbooks’ accounts of 13 unjust government actions directed against different minoritized groups reveal three narrative strategies …
Identifying home: A narrative of Japanese American internment
This work explores how Japanese American children from San Diego, California dealt with the disruption in their notion of home during World War II after the passage of Executive Order 9066. The authors analyzed 243 letters from the Japanese American National Museum Clara Breed Letter Collection to uncover themes in children’s experiences of internment. The authors discovered that the children simultaneously struggled with displacement from their …
Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory
future.This is a volume in which historians, librarians
When Memories and Discourses Collide: The President's House and Places of Public Memory
This paper proposes a loose model for illustrating how a multitude of discourses are pulled into political contests about the meanings of places of public memory. Specifically, the model suggests that selected discourses circulating around and within the memory place are pulled into the site by publics affectively invested in defining the site in particular ways. As, and after, those discourses collide within the place of memory, some stick and o…
"Redefining the "Cradle of Liberty: The President’s House Controversy in Independence National Historical Park
This article examines the public controversy surrounding the National Park Services decision about how best to recognize the site of the nations first executive mansion—the Presidents House—in Philadelphias Independence National Historical Park. The first of the houses two presidential occupants, George Washington, kept nine slaves in the mansion while circumventing a Pennsylvania law that could have given the slaves their freedom. The National P…
Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places
This article outlines a theory of re-collection as a means of enhancing and enriching the study of collective memory. Re-collection seeks to generate insights into two underdeveloped threads of collective memory research: (a) its processual and dynamic nature and (b) its largely emplaced character. In particular, this article argues that places of memory are not finished texts, but sites of re-collection in which individuals and groups selectivel…
Northern Exposure's Sense of Place: Constructing and Marginalizing the Matriarchal Community
This essay explores the symbolic creation of place in popular television programming through the analysis of an episode of the CBS program, Northern Exposure. The episode utilizes its actors in dual roles to create a history of their town's founding. That history depicts Cicely, Alaska as a matriarchy established by lesbian lovers Rosalyn and Cicely. The program breaks new ground in popular television with this construction of community, but it a…
Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places
This article outlines a theory of re-collection as a means of enhancing and enriching the study of collective memory. Re-collection seeks to generate insights into two underdeveloped threads of collective memory research: (a) its processual and dynamic nature and (b) its largely emplaced character. In particular, this article argues that places of memory are not finished texts, but sites of re-collection in which individuals and groups selectivel…
Northern Exposure's Sense of Place: Constructing and Marginalizing the Matriarchal Community
This essay explores the symbolic creation of place in popular television programming through the analysis of an episode of the CBS program, Northern Exposure. The episode utilizes its actors in dual roles to create a history of their town's founding. That history depicts Cicely, Alaska as a matriarchy established by lesbian lovers Rosalyn and Cicely. The program breaks new ground in popular television with this construction of community, but it a…
Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory
future.This is a volume in which historians, librarians
When Memories and Discourses Collide: The President's House and Places of Public Memory
This paper proposes a loose model for illustrating how a multitude of discourses are pulled into political contests about the meanings of places of public memory. Specifically, the model suggests that selected discourses circulating around and within the memory place are pulled into the site by publics affectively invested in defining the site in particular ways. As, and after, those discourses collide within the place of memory, some stick and o…
Northern Exposure's Sense of Place: Constructing and Marginalizing the Matriarchal Community
This essay explores the symbolic creation of place in popular television programming through the analysis of an episode of the CBS program, Northern Exposure. The episode utilizes its actors in dual roles to create a history of their town's founding. That history depicts Cicely, Alaska as a matriarchy established by lesbian lovers Rosalyn and Cicely. The program breaks new ground in popular television with this construction of community, but it a…
Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places
This article outlines a theory of re-collection as a means of enhancing and enriching the study of collective memory. Re-collection seeks to generate insights into two underdeveloped threads of collective memory research: (a) its processual and dynamic nature and (b) its largely emplaced character. In particular, this article argues that places of memory are not finished texts, but sites of re-collection in which individuals and groups selectivel…
"Redefining the "Cradle of Liberty: The President’s House Controversy in Independence National Historical Park
This article examines the public controversy surrounding the National Park Services decision about how best to recognize the site of the nations first executive mansion—the Presidents House—in Philadelphias Independence National Historical Park. The first of the houses two presidential occupants, George Washington, kept nine slaves in the mansion while circumventing a Pennsylvania law that could have given the slaves their freedom. The National P…
When Memories and Discourses Collide: The President's House and Places of Public Memory
This paper proposes a loose model for illustrating how a multitude of discourses are pulled into political contests about the meanings of places of public memory. Specifically, the model suggests that selected discourses circulating around and within the memory place are pulled into the site by publics affectively invested in defining the site in particular ways. As, and after, those discourses collide within the place of memory, some stick and o…
Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory
future.This is a volume in which historians, librarians
Identifying home: A narrative of Japanese American internment
This work explores how Japanese American children from San Diego, California dealt with the disruption in their notion of home during World War II after the passage of Executive Order 9066. The authors analyzed 243 letters from the Japanese American National Museum Clara Breed Letter Collection to uncover themes in children’s experiences of internment. The authors discovered that the children simultaneously struggled with displacement from their …
Returning the Gaze: A Visual Analysis of Jack Iwata’s Photography in Japanese American Internment Camps
This work explores photography’s potential to return the gaze and challenge powerholders within spaces of control. The authors analyzed 167 photographs from the Japanese American National Museum Jack Iwata Photo Collection to understand disciplinary mechanisms within a carceral landscape and the potential surveillance therein. The authors concluded that these historical photographs can not only supplement historical narratives of internment but a…
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism
While decades of scholarship demonstrate that U.S. history textbooks have incrementally told a fuller story of U.S. history, our review of nine prominent high school history textbooks illustrates how these texts perpetuate systemic racism and uphold the socially constructed centering of whiteness. Those contemporary textbooks’ accounts of 13 unjust government actions directed against different minoritized groups reveal three narrative strategies …
A Vision of the Good Society in Stone: The Nebraska Capitol as Aspirational Memory Node
This article outlines the notions of aspirational memory and nodal memory, then uses the combined concept of aspirational memory node to illustrate how the Nebraska capitol’s architecture and aesthetics draw upon the past to inspire Nebraskans to enact a moral vision of “noble living.” The capitol imagines this future good society by gathering a collection of public memories and molding them into (1) a political vision of democratic and just gove…
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