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Memory work, geography and environmental studies: some suggestions for teaching and research
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.
History
Publication title
Australian Geographical StudiesVolume
35Pagination
206-219ISSN
0004-9190Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UKRepository Status
- Restricted