TY - BOOK
T1 - Tracing Cultural Memory
T2 - Holiday snapshots at sites of memory in an actor-network perspective
AU - Wiegand, Frauke Katharina
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We encounter, relate to and make use of our past and that of others in multifarious and
increasingly mobile ways.
Tourism is one of the main paths for encountering sites of
memory. This thesis examines tourists’ creative appropriations of sites of memory
–
the objects and future memories inspired by their encounters
–
to address a question
that thirty years of ground
-
breaking research into memory has not yet sufficiently
answered: What can we learn about the dynamics of cultural memory by examining
mundane accounts of touristic encounters with sites of memory?
From Blaavand Beach
in Western
Denmark
to Soweto’s Regina Mundi Church,
this
thesis analyses tourists’ snapshots
at sites of memory
and outlines their
tracing
activity in cultural memory.
It
draws
on central concepts of actor
-
network theory
and
visual culture studies
for a cross
-
disciplinary methodology to comprehend the
collective appropriation of mediated memories in the tourist practice.
It
furthermore
pays particular attention to the absent and overlooked in photo
graphs and at sites of
memory
affording cultural memory work
.
My findings support the current trend to turn to
materiality and the multiplicity of
agency
in the study of memory. They highlight
the role of mundane
uses of the past
and
indicate
the need for cross
-
disciplinary research on the visual and on memory
AB - We encounter, relate to and make use of our past and that of others in multifarious and
increasingly mobile ways.
Tourism is one of the main paths for encountering sites of
memory. This thesis examines tourists’ creative appropriations of sites of memory
–
the objects and future memories inspired by their encounters
–
to address a question
that thirty years of ground
-
breaking research into memory has not yet sufficiently
answered: What can we learn about the dynamics of cultural memory by examining
mundane accounts of touristic encounters with sites of memory?
From Blaavand Beach
in Western
Denmark
to Soweto’s Regina Mundi Church,
this
thesis analyses tourists’ snapshots
at sites of memory
and outlines their
tracing
activity in cultural memory.
It
draws
on central concepts of actor
-
network theory
and
visual culture studies
for a cross
-
disciplinary methodology to comprehend the
collective appropriation of mediated memories in the tourist practice.
It
furthermore
pays particular attention to the absent and overlooked in photo
graphs and at sites of
memory
affording cultural memory work
.
My findings support the current trend to turn to
materiality and the multiplicity of
agency
in the study of memory. They highlight
the role of mundane
uses of the past
and
indicate
the need for cross
-
disciplinary research on the visual and on memory
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Tracing Cultural Memory
PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
ER -