By Owain Jones, Joanne Garde-Hansen
This assortment shifts the focal point from collective reminiscence to person reminiscence, by means of incorporating new performative methods to identification, position and turning into. Drawing upon cultural geography, the e-book offers an available framework to process key features of reminiscence, remembering, documents, commemoration and forgetting in sleek societies.
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The process of listing – a discursive move made by Bruno Latour (2005) in his Reassembling the Social – is one which, for me, threw into sharp relief the taken-forgranted ‘stuffness’ of the cupboard. As Latour argues, to apprehend the most quotidian of objects from an estranged vantage point (here he is talking specifically of an ‘expert’ gaze) is to make it matter, again, or differently: John Horton and Peter Kraftl 39 even the most routine, traditional, and silent implements stop being taken for granted when they are approached by users rendered ignorant and clumsy by distance – distance in time as in archaeology, distance in space as in ethnology, distance in skills as in learning.
This brings individual memory much more to the fore than has been hitherto considered in a range of disciplines, as we are quite literally formed of past practices in past (passed) places and spaces. How memory folds into the practice of ongoing identity is in complex interplay between the space and practice of the present and the spaces and practices of the past. Family life, work life, and all their spatiality and materiality (both past and present) are complex and anticipatory in the practice of identity.
Jones (2003) ‘ “Endlessly revisited and forever gone”: on memory, reverie and emotional imaginations in doing children’s geographies’, Children’s Geographies, 1, 25–36. O. Jones (2005) ‘An ecology of emotion, memory, self and landscape’ in J. Davidson, L. Bondi and M. Smith (eds) Emotional geographies (Farnham: Ashgate). O. Jones (2008) ‘ “True geography [ ] quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe”. Approaching the otherness of childhood’, Children’s Geographies, 6, 195–213.