Places of Memory: Spatialised Practices of Remembrance from Prehistory to Today

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Werther Holzer

Resumo O texto enfoca paisagem e lugar como receptores de memória, de como a memória contri-bui na constituição de categorias espaciais. A partir dos relatos de viagem de Jean de Lery e de Hans Staden, eu procuro mostrar a contribuição que a geografia humanista pode oferecer ao estudo dos lugares de memória, definidos como categorias espaciais referentes à memória. Palavras-chave: Memória, lugar, paisagem.Abstract The text focuses landscape and place as receivers of memory, as the memory contribute in the constitution of space categories. Starting from the reports of trip of Jean of Lery and Hans Staden, I try to show the contribution that the humanist geography can offer for the study from the places of memory, defined as space categories linked to the study of the memory. Keywords: Memory, place, landscape.


2021 ◽  
pp. 263300242110244
Author(s):  
Alice M. Greenwald ◽  
Clifford Chanin ◽  
Henry Rousso ◽  
Michel Wieviorka ◽  
Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

How do societies and states represent the historical, moral, and political weight of the terrorist attacks they have had to face? Having suffered in recent years from numerous terrorist attacks on their soil originating from jihadist movements, and often led by actors who were also their own citizens, France and the United States have set up—or seek to do so—places of memory whose functions, conditions of creation, modes of operation, and nature of the messages sent may vary. Three of the main protagonists and initiators of two museum-memorial projects linked to terrorist attacks have agreed to deliver their visions of the role and of the political, social, and historical context in which these projects have emerged. Allowing to observe similarities and differences between the American and French approach, this interview sheds light on the place of memory and feeling in societies struck by tragic events and seeking to cure their ills through memory and commemoration.


2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
NADIA BAIESI ◽  
MARZIA GIGLI ◽  
ELENA MONICELLI ◽  
ROBERTA PELLIZZOLI

Abstract This essay explores how a place of memory can be used as a crucial tool in peace education activities with students from elementary to high school. It draws on the work of the Peace School of Monte Sole and specifically focuses on the “Peace in Four Voices” summer camp, which brings together youth from conflict regions to foster a culture of peace. The camp is a major activity in the Peace School project, since it is from this ten-year-long experience that the idea of a “Peace School” was conceived of and developed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Cecilia Palacios ◽  
Anabella Rodríguez

La ciudad de Buenos Aires se encuentra cubierta por múltiples marcas territoriales (monumentos, memoriales, altares populares, etc.) que rememoran hechos conflictivos y procesos político-sociales de la historia reciente y que encarnan los diversos recuerdos de sus ciudadanos. A partir de los casos emblemáticos del Espacio para la Memoria (ex esma) y del Santuario de Cromañón nos preguntamos cómo se insertan estos lugares de recuerdo en el entramado de la ciudad, en emplazamientos y funcionamientos bastante disímiles que, no obstante, los ubican como íconos del recuerdo y la conmemoración. Nos interesa cuestionar sobre los diversos modos en que puede territorializarse e incluso institucionalizarse la memoria en determinado espacio. AbstractThe city of Buenos Aires is covered with several territorial markers (monuments, memorials, popular altars, etc.) recalling conflictive events and political-social processes in recent history that embody the various memories of its citizens. On the basis of emblematic cases in the Space for Memory (ex esma) and the Cro-Magnon Sanctuary, we explored how these places of memory are inserted in the city’s structure, in quite dissimilar locations and functions that nevertheless identify them as icons of memory and commemoration. We explore the different ways in which memory can be territorialized and even institutionalized in a specific space.


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