Memories of a fishing landscape

Making sense of flow and decline

Bibliographic Data

ID12905461
AuthorsMaria Abranches (0000-0001-7777-6112, University of East Anglia, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue6
Pages1631-1645
Publication date2023-10-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980231197120
OpenAlexW4387530048
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

Drawing on life history interviews conducted with former fishers and other older residents in Great Yarmouth – one of the 20% most deprived districts in England – this article explores how memories of a once flourishing fishing industry are used to make sense of the decline that followed the end of the industry in the 1960s. Focusing on the material and affective constituents of people’s memories, embodied in three categories of fishing-related objects (boats and quay, nets and fish) through which their stories are told, I explore how those formerly involved in fishing-related activities understand and experience the past and their world in the present. Using biographical and historical memories to reclaim their role in the making of a town that they consider to ‘have missed the boat’, they are able to make sense of the transformations that occurred and to reclaim their role as place makers

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Fish · Fishery · Fishing · Fishing industry · Flourishing · Political science · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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