ABSTRACT

This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies, place, and identity.

In the works of dynamic memory, there is room for multiple stories, versions of the past and place understandings, and often resistance to mainstream narratives. Places may live on long after their physical destruction. This collection provides insights into the significant and diverse role memory plays in our understanding of the world around us, in a variety of spaces and temporalities, and through a variety of disciplinary and professional lenses. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore place-making, its significance in everyday lives, and its loss. Processes of displacement, where people’s place attachments are violently torn asunder, are also considered. Ranging from oral history to forensic anthropology, from folklore studies to cultural geographies and beyond, the chapters in this Handbook reveal multiple and often unexpected facets of the fascinating relationship between place and memory, from the individual to the collective.

This is a multi- and intra-disciplinary collection of the latest, most influential approaches to the interwoven and dynamic issues of place and memory. It will be of great use to researchers and academics working across Geography, Tourism, Heritage, Anthropology, Memory Studies, and Archaeology.

part I|58 pages

Mobility

chapter 1|9 pages

The restorative museum

Understanding the work of memory at the Museum of Refugee Memory in Skala Loutron, Lesvos, Greece

chapter 2|9 pages

Urban heritage between silenced memories and ‘rootless’ inhabitants

The case of the Adriatic coast in Slovenia

chapter 3|11 pages

Uncanny District Six

Removals, remains, and deferred regeneration

chapter 4|10 pages

Colonial Complexity in the British Landscape

An African-centric autoethnography

part II|49 pages

Difficult memories

chapter 6|8 pages

Memory and space

(Re)reading Halbwachs

chapter 7|12 pages

Remembering Belene Island

Commemorating a site of violence

chapter 8|10 pages

The landscapes of death among the Selk’nams

Place, mobility, memory, and forgetting

chapter 9|10 pages

Forensic archaeology and the production of memorial sites

Situating the mass grave in a wider memory landscape

chapter 10|7 pages

Urban bombsites

part III|53 pages

Memoryscapes

chapter 11|10 pages

When memoryscapes move

‘Comfort Women’ memorials as transnational

chapter 14|10 pages

Pots, tunnels, and mountains

Myth, memory, and landscape at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

chapter 15|12 pages

Learning by doing

Memoryscape as an educational tool

part IV|62 pages

Industry

chapter 16|10 pages

Post-industrial memoryscapes

Combatting working-class erasure in North America and Europe

chapter 19|11 pages

‘Hidden in plain sight’

Uncovering the gendered heritage of an industrial landscape

chapter 20|9 pages

Remembered into place

chapter 21|10 pages

Thinking volumetrically about urban memory

The buried memories and networked remembrances of underground railways

part V|54 pages

The body

chapter 22|12 pages

Memorialising war

Rethinking heritage and affect in the context of Pearl Harbor

chapter 23|5 pages

Lieux de mémoire through the senses

Memory, state-sponsored history, and sensory experience

chapter 24|7 pages

Memory and the photological landscape

part VI|56 pages

Shared traditions

chapter 29|10 pages

Rewilding as heritage-making

New natural heritage and renewed memories in Portugal

chapter 30|10 pages

Taste and memory in action

Translating academic knowledge to public knowledge

chapter 31|9 pages

Foodshed as memoryscape

Legacies of innovation and ambivalence in New England’s agricultural economy

chapter 32|9 pages

Historicising historical re-enactment and urban heritagescapes

Engaging with past and place through historical pageantry, c. 1900–1950s

part VII|65 pages

Ritual

chapter 33|12 pages

‘My death waits there among the flowers’

Popular music shrines in London as memory and remembrance

chapter 34|10 pages

An ethnography of memory in the secret valleys of the Himalayas

Sacred topographies of mind in two Beyul pilgrimages

chapter 37|8 pages

Ritually recycling the landscape