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Memory and materiality
Citation
Schlunke, K, Memory and materiality, Memory Studies, 6, (3) pp. 253-261. ISSN 1750-6980 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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© The Author(s) 2013
DOI: doi:10.1177/1750698013482864
Abstract
This article explores the idea of memory effects, that is, memory and materiality as intertwined producers
of something we can call memory effects. This article argues that memory is an ‘effect’ produced through
and with materiality, rather than something only produced by a human-centred consciousness. Through
an exploration of the scale of memory in the shapes of a tiny Captain Cook painted on a matchbox and a
giant Captain Cook, which stands as ‘Big Cook’ in Cairns in northern Queensland (Australia), new paths
of perception and connection that may better account for the circulations and translations of memory are
established. To think of memory as having a scale is to see memory as always simultaneously physical and
temporal. These are memory effects. To think memory as memory effects is to give memory a key place not
just in orders of concatenating events that we may over-determine as ‘national’ but as an order of perception
given to us by the things themselves.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | new materialism, materiality, Captain Cook, memory |
Research Division: | Indigenous Studies |
Research Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history |
Research Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture |
UTAS Author: | Schlunke, K (Associate Professor Katrina Schlunke) |
ID Code: | 121959 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 12 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2017-10-23 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-07 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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