Geography and Memory - (Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies) by Owain Jones & Joanne Garde-Hansen (Hardcover)

About the Book

Based on presentations given at a session of a 2009 international conference sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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