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- Develops “sited memory” as an original theoretical tool
- Juxtaposes memory studies, architecture, geography, literature, and French theory to open up new avenues of enquiry
- Offers a valuable new resource for students, researchers and practitioners
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This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use. The plastic site is characterised both by its resilience, its form never entirely altered from an earlier mould, and by its malleability, which ensures that whatever persists is inevitably transformed. Embodied in its present configuration are the many moments that have produced it over time, and these are continually supplemented and modified.
Surveying examples from Paris, Algiers and Marseille, and media as diverse as literature, film, photography, blogs and video games, Plastic Pasts interrogates how different communities and cultural producers have grappled with the present past in space as an enduring and dynamic memory. It argues that understanding sited memory as plastic entails recognising a multiplicity of immutable pasts that exist in a permanent state of ongoing evolution.
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Book Title: Plastic Pasts
Book Subtitle: Sited Memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille
Authors: Christopher Leffler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5616-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5615-9Published: 21 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5618-0Due: 22 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5616-6Published: 20 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 297
Topics: Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Memory Studies, Cultural Heritage, Archaeology