Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
Memory Works
The Cultures of Memory
Contained Memory
For items tagged with: empathy
This paper uses the prism of archival, ancestral research to consider the nature of our relationship to the lives of the Others that we find in the past. The particular Other within this paper, the intergenerational haunting that appears in words and in walks, in stones, photographs and in memories, is Joyce Reason. My Great Aunt, whom I never […]
Cultures of memory cultivate our memory by encouraging the displacement of exterior historical events by the interiority of singular memory, rendered collective through an ethics and politics of empathic communicability. The assumption being that, while we are the products of history, we are the producers of memory, and thus can be held responsible for what […]