Archiving Loss - Holding Places for Difficult Memories

List of contents

Introduction: Pouring Memory
Part I: The Archive
Chapter 1: Power in the Archives
Chapter 2: Expectations in the Archive
Chapter 3: Archives and Difficult Events
Part II: Archive Fever
Chapter 4: Counting to Discount
Chapter 5: The Language and Logic of the Archive
Part III: Remembering in the Archive
Chapter 6: Archival Filters
Chapter 7: The Archive as a Gate Opener
Chapter 8: Loss and the Archive
References
Index

About the author

Martine Louise Hawkes, PhD, is a researcher based at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Her research interests centre on the landscapes and places of memory and social and personal constructions of memory after loss.

Summary

This book describes the archives whose language and logic have shaped our ways we remember and respond to difficult events and the ways in which we expect memory and loss to be coherent, credible, and lead to clear conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Martine Hawkes, Martine Louise Hawkes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367821098
• ISBN: 978-0-367-82109-8
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Humanities, Reference works, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology