Title & Author:

Placing memory and remembering place in Canada / edited by James Opp and John C. Walsh.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.

Description:

viii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : local acts of placing and remembering / James Opp and John C. Walsh -- Performing public memory and re-placing home in the Ottowa Valley, 1900-58 / John C. Walsh -- History and the Six Nations : the dynamics of commemoration, colonial space, and colonial knowledge / Cecilia Morgan -- Edmonton's Jasper Avenue : public ritual, heritage, and memory on Main Street / Frances Swyripa -- The highland heart in Nova Scotia : place and memory at the Highland Village Museum / Alan Gordon -- "That big statue of whoever" : material commemoration and narrative in the Niagara Region / Russell Johnston and Micheal Ripmeester -- Placing the displaced worker : narrating place in deindustrializing Sturgeon Falls, Ontario / Steven High -- Capital queers : social memory and queer place(s) in Cold War Ottawa / Patrizia Gentile -- Archive and myth : the changing memoryscape of Japanese Canadian internment camps / Kirsten Emiko McAllister -- Immersed : landscaping the past at Lake Minnewanka / Matthew Evenden -- Finding the view : landscape, place, and colour slide photography in southern Alberta / James Opp -- Complicating the picture : place and memory between representation and reflection / Joan M. Schwartz.

Summary:

Places are imagined, made, claimed, fought for and defended, and always in a state of becoming. This important book explores the historical and theoretical relationships among place, community, and public memory across differing chronologies and geographies within twentieth-century Canada. It is a collaborative work that shifts the focus from nation and empire to local places sitting at the intersection of public memory making and identity formation - main streets, city squares and village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the landscape itself. With a focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, the essays gathered here argue that every act of memory making is simultaneously an act of forgetting; every place memorialized is accompanied by places forgotten.

ISBN:

9780774818407
9780774818414
0774818417
0774818409

Subject:

Human geography Canada.
Collective memory Canada.
Geography Social aspects Canada.
Mémoire collective Canada.
Géographie humaine Canada.
Géographie Aspect social Canada.
Civilization.
Collective memory.
Geography Social aspects.
Human geography.
Canada Civilization.
Canada Civilisation.
Canada.

Added entries:

Walsh, John C., 1969-
Opp, James William, 1970-

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 274568
Call No.: GF511 .P57 2010
Status: Available