Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World

This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds. It interrogates the role of power in representations of memory and shows how experiences of commemoration sit within, alongside and in contrast to its official normative forms. The book charts how memories, places and experiences of commemoration play out and have, or have not, changed in and through a digital world. Key to the book's exploration is a new epistemology of memory, underpinned by an embodied research approach.

Provides a significant, accessible and interdisciplinary resource for academics and students interested in the geographies of memory, nostalgia, and identity, and will be of particular interest to those working in the disciplines of human geography, heritage studies, history, anthropology, historical and conflict archaeology, memory studies and oral historians Engages with an international audience, providing case studies from the Australian context that intersect with current and internationally-relevant themes and perspectives, particularly those that emerged from the First World War centenary Comprises a valuable resource for students and academics attempting to develop a more critical practice when identifying and debating a range of issues regarding commemoration, 'the past', memory, identity and theories of emotion

Autorentext

Danielle Drozdzewski is Associate Professor of Human Geography at Stockholm University.
Shanti Sumartojo is Associate Professor of Design Research at Monash University and a member of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab.
Emma Waterton is Professor in the Geographies of Heritage at Western Sydney University.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Geographies of commemoration in a digital world.- Chapter 2: Epistemology of memory.- Chapter 3: Encounters with Anzac in a digital world: tropes and symbols, spectacle and staging.- Chapter 4: Digital presence and absence.- Chapter 5: Digital feelings.- Chapter 6: Using geography to think-through and towards new commemorative frontiers.