Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 382 g
Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 382 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
ISBN: 978-0-367-63192-5
Verlag: Routledge
With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.
The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture.
This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.
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0. Introduction Part I: Moving Testimonies 1. Valijas militantes: Activist Suitcases and Memories of Exile across the Spanish Speaking World 2. Migrating Things, Multimodal Forms: 21st-century Graphic Literature and the Mapping of Global Mobilities Through Objects 3. Why is a Museum a Place to Rest in Peace? Relicarios by Colombian Artist Erika Diettes Part II: Moving Homes 4. Rhinos, Photographs and Earrings: Migrating Objects, Memories and Absences in Ali Farah’s Madre piccola (2007) and Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono (2010) 4. Memories of Material Home: Refugee Women’s Depiction of Absent Objects 5. Communicative Memory and Diaspora Space: ‘…offering my prayers for all the exiled members of my family’ Part III: Moving Designs 6. Material Making, Maritime Movements, Manipulated Memory: Hugo’s Design on Guernsey 7. The Social Role of Jewellery in Italian Short Stories. The Case of Contessa Lara and Marchesa Colombi 8. Learning from Rural Objects in 1970s Italy: Radical Design, Zeno Fiaschi’s Tools and the Renewal of Design Practice Part IV: Moving Histories 9. The Smells and Tastes of Memory: Accessing Transnational Pasts through Material Culture 10. Press Clipping and Puppet Making as Transcultural Material Practices in the Cuban Magazine Ultra (1936-1947) 11. Ill-apparent: Things in the Wake of the Arandora Star
