Plastic Pasts
Sited Memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille
Buch in deiner Nähe kaufen
Beschreibung
This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use. The plastic site is characterised both by its resilience, its form never entirely altered from an earlier mould, and by its malleability, which ensures that whatever persists is inevitably transformed. Embodied in its present configuration are the many moments that have produced it over time, and these are continually supplemented and modified.
Surveying examples from Paris, Algiers and Marseille, and media as diverse as literature, film, photography, blogs and video games, Plastic Pasts interrogates how different communities and cultural producers have grappled with the present past in space as an enduring and dynamic memory. It argues that understanding sited memory as plastic entails recognising a multiplicity of immutable pasts that exist in a permanent state of ongoing evolution.
Develops “sited memory” as an original theoretical tool Juxtaposes memory studies, architecture, geography, literature, and French theory to open up new avenues of enquiry Offers a valuable new resource for students, researchers and practitioners
Autor*in
Christopher Leffler
Themen in »Plastic Pasts«
memory studies social and cultural geography French studies city planning regional resilience peace and conflict studies memory and place French critical theory plasticity