Theme:
4. Persisting with Change: Theory and Archaeological Scrutiny
Session format:
Session with keynote presentation and discussion
Title:
Manufacturing Memory. Past Mnemotopoi and Present Map-making in the Quest of Collective Memories
Content:
This session investigates the relation of mnemotopes and collective memories within a diachronical and global framework, analyzing processes and practices occurring in the spatialization of memories, as well as the expression of that space through mapping. Drawing from multiple fields and experiences, we seek to explore theoretical models as well as practical methodologies that concur in the construction, deconstruction, and manufacturing of collective memories. What is the conceptual relationship between spatial materiality and memory? By what physical means is memory embedded in the landscape? What role can and do narrated topographies play in the construction and transformation of cultural memory? How can practices such as participatory mapping, countermapping, or feminist mapping alter the way physical spaces are interpreted? What effect might cartographical narratives have had in reinforcing political structures, or bringing about political changes?
This session explores diverse approaches to topographical mnemotechniques and memoryscapes, as well as symbolic mapping. We seek to identify points of agreement as well as key differences in order to critically debate dimensions of both physical, spatial memory, and its expression in the methodologies involved in the craft of map-making. Our goal is to examine the conceptualization of space itself, both physical and in abstraction, and its use to develop and manufacture communal purpose, identity, memory, and meaning. Our focus is in the past in general, beyond the boundaries of individual fields, in order to further develop innovative research tools of value to the field of archaeology at large, rather than confined within particular approaches or material types.
Keywords:
Cultural memory, Landscape Archaeology, Social Theory, Geography, Cartography
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Raffaella Da Vela (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Ariane Ballmer (Switzerland) 2
Aaron Irvin (United States) 3
Robert Schumann (Germany) 4
Chiara Giovannetti (Italy) 5
Affiliations:
1. SFB1070 RessourcenKulturen University of Tübingen
2. Independent Researcher
3. Murray State University
4. University of Hamburg
5. Sapienza University of Rome
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