Negotiating memory and identity : the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London
En juin 1983, la Grande-Bretagne a inauguré son premier mémorial uniquement dédié aux victimes de l'Holocauste : le Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial Garden. Ce monument reflète des problèmes d'identité anglo-juive, de mémoire et d'histoire.
Social memory and geographical memory of natural disasters
as participants in the formation of landscapes. The article considers them from the viewpoint of their visibility in the social sphere, that is, from the viewpoint of the social memory of natural disasters as preserved in oral, written, and architectural accounts
Commemorative Landscapes to the Missing: The HMAS Sydney II Memorial
. Uncertainty over the ship’s fate and its crew led to a frenzy of speculation. Parallel to this public interest was the will to commemorate the missing sailors somewhere along the coastline opposite the battle site. And so the HMAS Sydney II Memorial
in Geraldton, a highly symbolic and emotive memory landscape, was built. This paper explores this memorial as a memorial landscape to ‘the missing’—a special category of military death—and examines how this landscape offers closure to the trauma of survivors
On arrival : memory and temporality at Ellis Island, New York
Historical geography ; Memory ; New York State ; Site of memory ; Temporality ; United States of America ; Urban immigration
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
Interpretative framework and memory for map features
Carte ; Expérimentation ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Lecture de carte ; Mémorisation ; Organisation de l'espace ; Perception ; Processus cognitif ; Représentation de l'espace ; Sémiologie ; Technique cartographique
Cemetery ; Identity ; Kansas ; Landscape ; Memorial monument ; Semiotics of space ; Site of memory ; Town ; United States of America
The town of Lawrence endured attacks twice in 19th century. The memorialized landscapes of these tragedies display ambivalence toward the past. The town found sources for its historical identity that do not reflect these tragedies. The A. uses a set
of methods for reading the memorialized landscape that includes archival and landscape analysis.
Location, politics, and the production of civil rights memorial landscapes
This study examines the relative location of civil rights memorial landscapes in Atlanta, Birmingham and Memphis. Produced over the past two decades, these memorials are the largest and most popular of several dozen associated with the civil rights
Collective memory and the politics of urban space. Special issue
Cultural landscape ; Landscape ; Policy ; Public space ; Site of memory ; Urban area
Each of the six articles approaches the theme of collective memory from a somewhat different vantage point, but they all underscore the importance of considering the spatial configuration of commemorative practices in the urban context. The articles
also examine a variety of spatial modes of memory within different countries around the world.
evolving ?. In this context knowledge, memorization and memory are the basics for the construction and the characteristic of a cultural identity, which is built from a me - and a we - identity and which is fixed in the collective memory. The collective
memory is composed of the communicative and cultural memory, the operation modes of which depend on the level of orality and literality of a society. The importance of the different types of memory for formation and change of culture and cultural identity