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On arrival: memory and temporality at Ellis Island, New York.
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Environment & Planning D: Society & Space . Dec2012, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p1011-1027. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Museums and heritage operations are increasingly employing experiential forms of interpretation, such as role adoption and first-person interpretation, in order to cultivate emotional bonds between visitors and the characters that populate historic sites. The paper argues that this form of relating to the past affectively reflects a notion of memory that is underpinned by commonsense temporality and a privileging of the corporeal, both of which serve to legitimate existing relations of power. Using a dispute surrounding public entry to Ellis Island, New York, via a bridge connected to New Jersey, I ask that we understand memory as a practice generating the past's perpetual arrival where the past continually comes into existence anew rather than 'returns' from what once was. Throughout the paper I relate a number of examples where thinking about memory along these lines, as arrival, can help us question the temporal logics that underpin heritage and the authorities heritage maintains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MUSEUMS
*EMOTIONS
*MEMORY
*CULTURAL property
*HISTORIC sites
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02637758
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning D: Society & Space
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 84673325
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d5910