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| A REVIEW OF WESTERN GEOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF TEXT, CONFLICT AND PERFORMANCE |
| HUANG Wei1, LIANG Lu2, LI Fan1 |
1. Tourism Department & Center for Land Resources Environment and Tourism Research, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China;
2. School of Tourism & Research Institute of Human Geography, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an 710128, China |
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Abstract Centered on the concept of collective memory, western geographies of memory have mainly drawn upon explorations of lieux de mémoire with a focus on the categorical relationship between memory and space. Dwyer and Alderman furthered researches along this line by pointing out that there exist three types of metaphors-text, arena and performance-in current studies of urban collective memory, which are employed to discuss topics like symbolic meanings of memorial landscapes and space, political conflicts over being remembered or forgotten and staged performance of memory through ceremonies, rituals and body movement. With the interference of Non-representational Geographies into memory studies, a turn of affectperformance integration has been witnessed in the research method of western geographies of memory, coupled with increasing attention paid to individual memory on the corporeal level and its performativity and relational nature.We found that even though western geographical studies of memory vary greatly in the choice of topics due to the interdisciplinary background of memory studies, they are commonly concerned with memory's political, narrative and performative nature. Specifically, this is reflected in:(1) the formation of the politics of text for memorial landscape narratives and the conformation with the traditional politics of memory for researches on public space; (2) renewed perception of the relations between memory and narratives with an emphasis put on various forms of written and spoken narratives; (3) more attention paid to the role of art, domestic materials and practices in the diverse modes through which memory functions as well as to the embodied character or performance of memory in corporeal space.
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Received: 07 April 2015
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2016, Vol. 31 
