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New publication: "Geography of placemories: deciphering spatialised memories"

New publication: "Geography of placemories: deciphering spatialised memories"

© Hubner, E., 2022 - Nuremberg's Old Town

In the recently published open access article "Geography of placemories: deciphering spatialised memories", Elena Hubner and Peter Dirksmeier develop the so-called placemoric approach with the help of Raymond Williams' cultural materialism and Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy.  It assumes that memorial sites are subject to constant becoming and shows how spatialised memories are the socially constructed result of permanently changing feelings. Finally, an analysis of contested remembering processes in Nuremberg's Old Town illustrates the potentials of a "geography of placemories".

Hubner, E.; Dirksmeier, P. (2022): Geography of placemories: deciphering spatialised memories. cultural geographies. DOI: 10.1177/14744740221123564