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List of contents
0. Introduction Part I: Moving Testimonies 1.
Valijas militantes: Activist Suitcases and Memories of Exile across the Spanish Speaking World 2. Migrating Things, Multimodal Forms: 21st-century Graphic Literature and the Mapping of Global Mobilities Through Objects 3. Why is a Museum a Place to Rest in Peace?
Relicarios by Colombian Artist Erika Diettes Part II: Moving Homes 4. Rhinos, Photographs and Earrings: Migrating Objects, Memories and Absences in Ali Farah's
Madre piccola (2007) and Scego's
La mia casa è dove sono (2010) 4. Memories of Material Home: Refugee Women's Depiction of Absent Objects 5. Communicative Memory and Diaspora Space: '...offering my prayers for all the exiled members of my family' Part III: Moving Designs 6. Material Making, Maritime Movements, Manipulated Memory: Hugo's Design on Guernsey 7. The Social Role of Jewellery in Italian Short Stories. The Case of Contessa Lara and Marchesa Colombi 8. Learning from Rural Objects in 1970s Italy: Radical Design, Zeno Fiaschi's Tools and the Renewal of Design Practice Part IV: Moving Histories 9. The Smells and Tastes of Memory: Accessing Transnational Pasts through Material Culture 10. Press Clipping and Puppet Making as Transcultural Material Practices in the Cuban Magazine
Ultra (1936-1947) 11. Ill-apparent: Things in the Wake of the Arandora Star
About the author
Chiara Giuliani is a lecturer in Italian at University College Cork (Ireland).
Kate Hodgson is a lecturer in French at University College Cork (Ireland).
Summary
With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.
