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Memory work, geography and environmental studies: some suggestions for teaching and research
Citation
Stratford, E, Memory work, geography and environmental studies: some suggestions for teaching and research, Australian Geographical Studies, 35, (2) pp. 206-219. ISSN 0004-9190 (1997) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1111/1467-8470.00020
Abstract
In geography and environmental studies, the subjective and objective are often pitted one against the other, and we are often required to divorce the personal and anecdotal from our formal production of knowledge. I question the sense of this practice. First, I examine a method of self-exploration, known as memory work. I then describe how this method can be used in teaching and research to help us explore how we make and give meaning to place. Beyond these concerns, I also discuss some of the links between memory work and the conception of subjectivity and place in geography and environmental studies. Finally, I comment on how both memory and the language in which we couch our experiences are central concerns for geographers and environmental scholars wishing to effect social change.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Human geography |
Research Field: | Social geography |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Other education and training |
Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Stratford, E (Professor Elaine Stratford) |
ID Code: | 9603 |
Year Published: | 1997 |
Deposited By: | Geography and Environmental Studies |
Deposited On: | 1997-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2021-01-28 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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