1st Edition

Visualising Place, Memory and the Imagined

By Sarah De Nardi Copyright 2020
218 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of place. The book seeks to connect the dots of the factual and the imaginary that form affective networks of identities, which help shape local memory and sense of self and community, as well as a sense of the past. It exploits the concept of... Read more

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Defining terms; 2. Deep mapping as memory work: theoretical and methodological implications of heritage mapping; 3. Imaginative engagement: the sleeping giant and the cursed hill; 4. A town, divided: mapping the tense imaginaries of the 1943–1945 Italian civil war; 5. Unlearning the body: liminal spaces, abject corpses and the historical imagination; 6. Stories from Beamish Museum’s ‘1950s Town’; 7. Experiencing the mapping method in the field: a dialogic interlude; 8. Moving forward: not a conclusion chapter; List of Figures; References; AppendixIndex

Biography

Sarah De Nardi is a lecturer in heritage and tourism at Western Sydney University and the co-editor of the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage. Her first monograph, The Poetics of Conflict Experience: Materiality and Embodiment in Second World War Italy (2016), revived landscape perception in Second World War Italy through hands-on oral histories with veterans.