Memorial landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors |
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Authors: | Owen J Dwyer Derek H Alderman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, 213 Cavanaugh Hall, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA;(2) Department of Geography, East Carolina University, A-227 Brewster Building, Greenville, NC 27858, USA |
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Abstract: | Over the past two decades, geographers have probed the intersection of collective memory and urban space. Their sustained
interest in the subject reflects an understanding of the social condition of commemoration and the important role that space
plays in the process and politics of collective memory. Along with other critical social scientists, geographers envision
these public symbols as part of larger cultural landscapes that reflect and legitimate the normative social order. A review
of the extant literature indicates that geographers scrutinize memorial landscapes through three conceptual lenses that may
be understood via the metaphors of ‘text,’ ‘arena,’ and ‘performance.’ These metaphors are in turn mobilized through a series
of analytic questions that serve to identify the interests served and denied by landscape ‘texts,’ the ‘arenas’ in which they
are produced, and the ways in which they are enacted via ‘performance.’ This article’s synopsis of the subfield’s predominant
metaphors and its attendant questions contributes to the ongoing cultural geographic project of articulating and implementing
methods for interpreting landscapes as open-ended symbolic systems.
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Keywords: | Collective memory Commemoration Landscape Memorial Space |
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