Memory and place

Geographies of a Critical Relationship

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ID3977803
AuthorsSteven Hoelscher (The University of Texas at Austin), Derek H Alderman (0000-0002-5192-8103, East Carolina University)
Year2004
Volume5
Issue3
Pages347-355
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1464936042000252769
OpenAlexW2172159742
LanguageEN
Citations received250
References cited54

In recent years, investigations of social or cultural memory have become a major field of inquiry throughout the humanities and social sciences. No longer the sole preserve of psychology, the study of memory now extends to anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, literary studies, communication, history and, increasingly, to geography. This article assesses some of the major trends in this burgeoning literature, especially those works spatial in nature, which we find to be of considerable cross-disciplinary importance. Together, memory and place conjoin to produce much of the context for modern identities; providing a modest overview of that critical, dynamic relationship, this article serves as an introduction to this special issue of Social & Cultural Geography. Keywords: memoryplacelandscapeperformance Notes Nelson Mandela first arrived on Robben Island in 1962, before it was fully established, and remained there until 1982, when he was transferred with a few other prisoners to Pollsmoor Prison in the white middle-class Cape Town suburb of Tokai, and then, in 1988, to Victor Verster, where he was finally released in 1990 (Mandela Citation1994). Other scholars like Pierre Nora (Citation1989), Anthony Giddens (Citation1990), Andreas Huyssen (Citation1995) and David Lowenthal (Citation1996) have made similar claims, while Eric Hobsbawm (Citation1983) has famously described the turn of the twentieth century as a period of 'mass-producing traditions'. In either case, the key point is that periods of rapid social transformation are often accompanied, in the modern world, by moments of intense collective remembering

Collective memory · Cultural memory · Discipline · Social geography · White (mutation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philippine History and Culture

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