Mountains and memory

Embodied visions of ancient peaks in the nineteenth‐century Aegean

Bibliographic Data

ID8074686
AuthorsVeronica Della Dora (0000-0002-7665-8998, University of Bristol, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume33
Issue2
Pages217-232
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00296.x
OpenAlexW2048889178
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited42

Over the past few years, the relationship between landscape and the body as two physical entities mutually informed through performance has been increasingly interrogated by cultural geographers. Similar issues about memory, embodiment and performativity have been raised in the social sciences, yet often obliterating the material specificities of place and landscape. This paper reconsiders the relationship between landscape and memory in terms of embodied, visual and spatial practice, rather than as a contested cultural politics of heritage and identity (as it has been generally understood in cultural geography after the so‐called ‘cultural turn’). Drawing on Nora's ‘memory places’ and on the Deleuzian notion of ‘ontological past’, as well as on recent writing on historical geographies of exploration and travel, the paper explores the spatial re‐activation of Classical historical memory by nineteenth‐century British officers and travellers to Aegean mountain peaks through their embodied and site‐located practices of climbing, surveying or simply ‘gazing

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural geography · Cultural landscape · Cultural memory · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human geography · Identity (music · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Religious Tourism and Spaces