Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada - Hardcover

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9780774818407: Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774818409 ISBN 13: 9780774818407

Publisher: UBC Press, 2010

Places are imagined, made, claimed, fought for and defended, and always in a state of becoming. This important book explores the historical and theoretical relationships among place, community, and public memory across differing chronologies and geographies within twentieth-century Canada. It is a collaborative work that shifts the focus from nation and empire to local places sitting at the intersection of public memory making and identity formation - main streets, city squares and village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the landscape itself. With a focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, the essays gathered here argue that every act of memory making is simultaneously an act of forgetting; every place memorialized is accompanied by places forgotten.

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Book Description:

This fascinating book maps a new terrain in memory studies by shifting the focus from nation and empire to local places that sit at the intersection of memory making and identity formation.

About the Author:

James Opp and John C. Walsh are in the Department of History at Carleton University and are research associates at the Carleton Centre for Public History. Contribubutors include Matthew Evenden, Patrizia Gentile, Alan Gordon, Steven High, Russell Johnston, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Cecilia Morgan, James Opp, Michael Ripmeester, Joan M. Schwartz, Frances Swyripa, and John C. Walsh.

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