On arrival : memory and temporality at Ellis Island, New York

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
Museums and heritage operations are employing experiential forms of interpretation in order to cultivate emotional bonds between visitors and the characters that populate historic sites. This form of relating to the past affectively reflects a notion of memory underpinned by temporality which serves to legitimate existing relations of power. Using a dispute surrounding public entry to Ellis Island via a bridge connected to New Jersey where the past continually comes into existence, memory is understood as a practice generating the past's perpetual arrival.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning. D. Society and space, issn : 0263-7758, 2012, vol. 30, n°. 6, p. 1011-1027, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 4 p.

Date :
2012

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion