Dixon, D. , Pendleton, M. and Fearnley, C. (2016) Engaging Hashima: memory work, site-based affects, and the possibilities of interruption. GeoHumanities, 2(1), pp. 167-187. (doi: 10.1080/2373566X.2016.1168208)
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Abstract
How is memory embodied, narrated, interrupted, and reworked? Here, we take a postphenomenological approach to memory work that is attentive to how site-based affects prompt and ossify, but also transmogrify, memory of place. With reference to an intensely traumatized, but also domesticated and entropied, environment—the island of Hashima, off the coast from Nagasaki City in Japan—we demonstrate the relevance and explanatory reach of culturally specific accounts of memory, time, and place; how an attentiveness to cultural context in the making of meaning helps mark out the epistemological violences that accrue around sites such as Hashima as objects of analysis in and of themselves; and the affective capacities of the materialities and forces that compose such sites, which can present a welter of surfaces and interiorities that are sensuously “felt” as memory.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Dixon, Professor Deborah |
| Authors: | Dixon, D., Pendleton, M., and Fearnley, C. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences > Geography |
| Journal Name: | GeoHumanities |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 2373-566X |
| ISSN (Online): | 2373-5678 |
| Published Online: | 23 May 2016 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2016 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in GeoHumanities 2(1):167-187 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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