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Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering.

Jeffrey K. Olick, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1997 - 
- Vol. 76, Iss: 2, pp 709
TLDR
Memory is often embodied in objects, such as memorials, texts, talismans, images as mentioned in this paper, which are often perceived to contain memory within them or indeed to be synonymous with memory.
Abstract
Memory is often embodied in objects--memorials, texts, talismans, images. Though one could argue that such artifacts operate to prompt remembrance, they are often perceived actually to contain memory within them or indeed to be synonymous with memory. No object is more equated with memory than the camera image, in particular the photograph. Memory appears to reside within the photographic image, to tell its story in response to our gaze.

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On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse

Kerwin Lee Klein
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: The history and memory industry has been a hot topic in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a renewed interest in memorization as an object of study in the field of history and history.
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Memory and place: geographies of a critical relationship

TL;DR: The authors assesses some of the major trends in this burgeoning literature, especially those works spatial in nature, which they find to be of considerable cross-disciplinary importance, and provide a modest overview of that critical, dynamic relationship.
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Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

TL;DR: The authors examines the process of racialization as an essential aspect of how everyday geographies are made, understood, and challenged, starting from the premise that a primary root of modern American race relations can be found in the southern past, especially in how that past was imagined, articulated, and performed during a crucial period known as “Jim Crow.
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Wounded Cities: Memory Work and a Place-Based Ethics of Care

TL;DR: Wounded Cities as mentioned in this paper is a collection of creative practices and politics in Bogota, Cape Town, Berlin, Minneapolis, and Roanoke, cities in which settlement clearances have produced spaces so steeped in oppression that the geographies of displacement continue to structure urban social relations.
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The Abuses of Memory: Reflections on the Memory Boom in Anthropology

TL;DR: The authors argued that the current usage of the notion by anthropologists can be a source of confusion as it tends to encompass many features of culture itself and argued that this process of conceptual extension leading to the entanglement of memory and culture merits careful scrutiny.
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Journal ArticleDOI

On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse

Kerwin Lee Klein
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: The history and memory industry has been a hot topic in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a renewed interest in memorization as an object of study in the field of history and history.
Journal ArticleDOI

Memory and place: geographies of a critical relationship

TL;DR: The authors assesses some of the major trends in this burgeoning literature, especially those works spatial in nature, which they find to be of considerable cross-disciplinary importance, and provide a modest overview of that critical, dynamic relationship.
Journal ArticleDOI

Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

TL;DR: The authors examines the process of racialization as an essential aspect of how everyday geographies are made, understood, and challenged, starting from the premise that a primary root of modern American race relations can be found in the southern past, especially in how that past was imagined, articulated, and performed during a crucial period known as “Jim Crow.
Journal ArticleDOI

Wounded Cities: Memory Work and a Place-Based Ethics of Care

TL;DR: Wounded Cities as mentioned in this paper is a collection of creative practices and politics in Bogota, Cape Town, Berlin, Minneapolis, and Roanoke, cities in which settlement clearances have produced spaces so steeped in oppression that the geographies of displacement continue to structure urban social relations.
Journal ArticleDOI

The Abuses of Memory: Reflections on the Memory Boom in Anthropology

TL;DR: The authors argued that the current usage of the notion by anthropologists can be a source of confusion as it tends to encompass many features of culture itself and argued that this process of conceptual extension leading to the entanglement of memory and culture merits careful scrutiny.