Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada

Buch | Softcover

340 Seiten

2011
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1841-4 (ISBN)

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A fascinating book that situates local places and local expressions of public memory such as statues, photographs, and oral stories at the centre of identity formation in twentieth-century Canada and beyond.

Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada maps a fascinating terrain in memory studies by shifting the focus from nation and empire to local places that sit at the intersection of memory making and identity formation – main streets, city squares, village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the rural landscape.

While offering a unique perspective on the politics of place and memory across differing chronologies and geographies, the first part of the book, “Commemorations,” traces how local expressions of memory such as celebrations, museums, statues, postcards, and plaques have contributed to a sense of place and belonging in twentieth-century Canada. The second part, “Inscriptions,” in turn explores how ordinary Canadians have embedded their memories of place in oral stories, photographs, and the landscape itself. With its focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, these essays argue for an understanding of place as imagined, made, claimed, fought for, and defended – always in a state of becoming.

James Opp and John C. Walsh are in the Department of History at Carleton University and are research associates at the Carleton Centre for Public History. Contributors: Matthew Evenden, Patrizia Gentile, Alan Gordon, Steven High, Russell Johnston, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Cecilia Morgan, James Opp, Michael Ripmeester, Joan M. Schwartz, Frances Swyripa, and John C. Walsh.

Introduction: Local Acts of Placing and Remembering / James Opp and John C. Walsh

Part 1: Commemorations: Marking Memories of Place

1 Performing Public Memory and Re-Placing Home in the Ottawa Valley, 1900-58 / John C. Walsh

2 History and the Six Nations: The Dynamics of Commemoration, Colonial Space, and Colonial Knowledge / Cecilia Morgan

3 Edmonton’s Jasper Avenue: Public Ritual, Heritage, and Memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa

4 The Highland Heart in Nova Scotia: Place and Memory at the Highland Village Museum / Alan Gordon

5 “That Big Statue of Whoever”: Material Commemoration and Narrative in the Niagara Region / Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester

Part 2: Inscriptions: Recovering Places of Memory

6 Placing the Displaced Worker: Narrating Place in Deindustrializing Sturgeon Falls, Ontario /Steven High

7 Capital Queers: Social Memory and Queer Place(s) in Cold War Ottawa / Patrizia Gentile

8 Archive and Myth: The Changing Memoryscape of Japanese Canadian Internment Camps / Kirsten Emiko McAllister

9 Immersed: Landscaping the Past at Lake Minnewanka / Matthew Evenden

10 Finding the View: Landscape, Place, and Colour Slide Photography in Southern Alberta / James Opp

Part 3: Afterword

11 Complicating the Picture: Place and Memory between Representation and Reflection / Joan M. Schwartz

Index

Zusatzinfo	33 b&w photographs, 10 illustrations, 5 maps, 5 graphs
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7748-1841-7 / 0774818417
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-1841-4 / 9780774818414
Zustand	Neuware