Geography and Memory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Owain Jones, Joanne Garde-Hansen

      Pages 1-18

3. Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-23

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   2. Clearing out a Cupboard: Memory, Materiality and Transitions

      • John Horton, Peter Kraftl

      Pages 25-44

   3. Copper Places: Affective Circuitries

      • Caitlin DeSilvey

      Pages 45-57

   4. Mapping Grief and Memory in John Banville’s The Sea

      • Avril Maddrell

      Pages 58-67

   5. Brooding on Bornholm: Postmemory, Painting and Place

      • Judith Tucker

      Pages 68-84

4. Place

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-90

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   2. Family Photographs: Memories, Narratives, Place

      • Elisabeth Roberts

      Pages 91-108

   3. The Southdean Project and Beyond — ‘Essaying’ Site as Memory Work

      • Iain Biggs

      Pages 109-123

   4. ‘The Elephant Is Part of Us and Our Village’: Reflections on Memories, Places and (Non-) Spatial Objects

      • Marc Redepenning

      Pages 124-138

   5. Graffiti Heritage: Civil War Memory in Virginia

      • Terri Moreau, Derek H. Alderman

      Pages 139-160

5. Becoming

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-166

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   2. Geopolitics and Memories: Walking through Plymouth, England

      • James D. Sidaway

      Pages 167-183

   3. A Domestic Geography of Everyday Terror: Remembering and Forgetting the House I Grew Up In

      • Belinda Morrissey

      Pages 184-198

   4. Moving Through Memory: Notes from a Circus Lot

      • Ariel Terranova-Webb

      Pages 199-215

   5. Making Memories Our Own (Way): Non-State Remembrances of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia

      • Hamzah Muzaini

      Pages 216-233

   6. Lobotomizing Logics: A Critique of Memory Sports and the Business of Mapping the Mind

      • Gareth Hoskins

      Pages 234-249

6. A Memoir: (On Terra Firma)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Surfaces and Slopes — Remembering the World-Under-Foot

      • Hayden Lorimer

      Pages 253-257

This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming. Drawing upon cultural geography, the book provides an accessible framework to approach key aspects of memory, remembering, archives, commemoration and forgetting in modern societies.

• geography
• geopolitics
• identity
• individual
• memory
• Plymouth
• area studies

• Countryside and Community Research Institute, UK

  Owain Jones

• University of Gloucestershire, UK

  Joanne Garde-Hansen

DEREK H. ALDERMAN Professor of Geography, East Carolina University, USA IAIN BIGGS Reader in Visual Arts Practice, University of the West of England, UK CAITLIN DESILVEY Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography, University of Exeter, UK JOHN HORTON Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of Northampton, UK GARETH HOSKINS Lecturer in Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK PETER KRAFTL Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK HEYDEN LORIMER Reader in Human Geography University of Glasgow, UK AVRIL MADDRELL Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of the West of England, UK TERRI MOREAU PhD candidate in Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK BELINDA MORRISSEY Lecturer in Communications and Writing, Monash University, Australia HAMZAH MUZAINI Cultural Geography Chair Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands MARC REDEPENNING Substitute Professor in Cultural Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany ELISABETH ROBERTS University of Exeter, UK JAMES D. SIDAWAY Professor of Political Geography, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore ARIEL TERRANOVA-WEBB Free-lance Geographer, Member of OpenSpace Research Centre, Open University, UK JUDITH TUCKER Senior Lecturer and Artist, University of Leeds, UK

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