A Proposition for Remembering Activism: A Toolkit for Assemblage Memory

Chidgey, Red

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98737-8_3

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“…We have absorbed interests from new materialist and posthuman scholarship in understanding the world as an everbecoming formation of entangled human and non-human organic and non-organic agencies (Barad, 2007;Bennett, 2010;Braidotti, 2013;Rigney, 2017). This resonates with the widespread, recent influence of assemblage and actor-network theory in heritage and memory studies (Bangstad and Pétursdóttir, 2021;Chidgey, 2018;Hamilakis, 2017;Harrison et al, 2020;Macdonald, 2009), including a renewed focus on the material, tactile and multisensorial forces and qualities of given settings (Daugbjerg, 2014;McLean, 2008;Sumartojo and Graves, 2018).…”

Section: Groundingsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time

Daugbjerg

Whitehead

2023

Memory Studies

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This article deals with the meanings and agencies of earth in the making of memory. We consider the role of the soil at the Gallipoli peninsula, in today’s Turkey, a key First World War battlefield and a nodal point of national memories, especially for Australia, New Zealand and Turkey. Informed by more-than-human approaches to heritage and memory and drawing on contemporary site visits as well as historical sources, we discuss the Gallipoli peninsula as a landscape freighted with earthy memory in multiple ways: with the bodies of the dead of 1915, the material deposits and earthworks of the conflict, the memory practices undertaken relationally between people and nation states, and the weight of international diplomacies in the making and remaking of geopolitical orders and claims. In all of this, the ground is both supremely tangible and extremely abstract, making it a most potent agent in memory practices. We are interested in how groups claim ownership of, and control over, the ground; the many ways in which the earth comes to matter, including why and how it moves, how far, and through what forms of transfer; and the scalar zoom of perception and imagination that allows memory to take different forms. We explore these interrelations through attention to processes of what we call ‘formation’ and ‘activation’ of the earth, arguing that they often work to set up mitigations or collapses of distance – geographically and temporally – through different memorial and museum practices and rituals. In our analysis, however, such attempts to create collapses, or ‘wormholes’, through which the faraway Gallipoli can somehow be felt and grasped, are ultimately doomed to fail, as spatial and temporal distances inevitably seem to re-assert themselves as brutal and unbrookable gulfs.

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Section: Groundingsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time

Daugbjerg

Whitehead

2023

Memory Studies

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“…Detaching agency from human intentionality opens up possibilities to examine entanglement and assemblage of memory in productive ways. Much of the work in this collection approaches agency as distributed, recognising that memory work is performed by multiple actors without assuming these are ‘necessarily comparable actions to be flattened and made equivocal’ (Chidgey 2018, 54). Instead, there is an analytical orientation towards identifying not only the role of different actors in particular specific forms that non-human actors take but also tensions between the interests, ethics, and politics of actors.…”

Section: Multiple Agenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The multiplicities of platformed remembering

Smit,

Jacobsen,

Annabell

2024

Mem. Mind & Media

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“…In a more extensive work, Feminist Afterlifes: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times , Red Chidgey (2018) uses assemblage as an approach and a tool to explore feminist activism and memory.…”

Section: From Mnemonic Objects To Mnemonic Assemblagesmentioning

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The digital turn in memory studies

Mandolessi

2023

Memory Studies

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This article examines the changes experienced by collective memory in the digital era. Contrary to the thesis that digital memory entails a new type of memory, which is radically different from the traditional conceptualization, I argue that the practice of digital memory materializes and implements the theoretical claims made by Memory Studies since the field’s inception – collective memory conceived as a process, mediated and remediated by multiple media, with the participation of dynamic communities that perform rather than represent the past. In the article, I address what I propose are the following four major transformations that collective memory has undergone in the digital era: (1) the new ontology of the digital archive; (2) the shift from narrative as a privileged form of collective memory to the cultural form of the database; (3) the reconfiguration of agency, in which a distributed memory is performed by human and non-human agents in a dynamic entanglement; and (4) the shift from mnemonic objects to mnemonic assemblages, comprising persons, things, artefacts, spaces, discourses, behaviours and expressions in dynamic relatedness.

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A Proposition for Remembering Activism: A Toolkit for Assemblage Memory

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time

The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time

The multiplicities of platformed remembering

The digital turn in memory studies

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