Equitable Futures for Geographies of Memory and Heritage 2: Bodies and Museums
This session will be streamed, recorded, and archived on the site until June 25th, 2023
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Mountain Time
Room: Capitol Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
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Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Historical Geography Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Mark Rhodes Michigan Technological University
Chair(s):
Description:
As memory and heritage studies continue to grow within inter- and trans-disciplinary spaces, the spatial dynamics of our relationship simultaneously evolve. Both memory and heritage center around concepts geographers often find core to our discipline: place, landscape, regional and national identity, nation and state-building, travel and tourism, urban planning, and development. While certainly important to the broader study of geography, the discipline does not solely bind and hold these concepts. Regardless, neither memory nor heritage studies as fully emerged fields of study in their own right rest upon geography (or any single discipline) and have increasingly transitioned from their interdisciplinary beginnings towards what many hope to see as their transdisciplinary future. Even stepping back and exploring memory and heritage as concepts leads to the inevitable branching of conflicting and pluralized definitions as we wield the terms to discuss processes of shaping, interpreting, communicating, obscuring, and reworking how the past is framed, the intersecting space-time of material culture, or the social consciousness or constructed-ness of past experiences. Whether studying (or shaping) these concepts as social processes, material discourses, institutionalized structures, or community values, such work spans far beyond the geographer.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Bethany Craig |
Scars as Cartography: Bodily Commemorations and Memorials |
Sam Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Narrating the Sand Creek Massacre: Spectacle and Survivance at Denver’s History Colorado Center |
Emma Walcott-Wilson |
Toward a Sensory Ethnography of Plantation Museums: Emotional Labor, Affect, and Place-Making at McLeod Plantation Historic Site |
Dan Bonenberger |
Virtual Brownfield Village as space, landscape, and place for more just geographies of cultural heritage |
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Equitable Futures for Geographies of Memory and Heritage 2: Bodies and Museums
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM MT
Room: Capitol Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Mark Rhodes Michigan Technological University
marhodes@mtu.edu
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