Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction

Bond, Lucy; Bruyn, Ben De; Rapson, Jessica

doi:10.4324/9781351026185-1

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“…Another strand focuses on problems of scale. In the context of global climate change, concepts such as transnational, transcultural or cosmopolitan memory appear too limited: after the move from collective to national and then to transnational memory, we now are faced with the prospect of 'planetary' memory (Bond et al, 2017;Craps et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Environmental Turnmentioning

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Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus

Knittel

2023

Memory Studies

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Ecocide and large-scale ecological degradation raise critical questions regarding guilt, justice, and responsibility. The complexity and scale of ecological violence present a singular challenge for memory studies, especially when it comes to understanding how we are implicated in this violence. Often, the way ecological violence is framed as violence relies on repertoires, forms and conventions for representing and commemorating genocides and other acts of large-scale violence against humans. Moreover, cultural forms are able to reveal the historical, structural and discursive links between crimes against humanity and crimes against nature. To explore the implications of these ‘ecologies of violence’ for memory studies, this essay brings together two major strands in the field that have so far not intersected in a substantial way: the turn towards the figure of the perpetrator and to questions of guilt, complicity/implication on the one hand, and on the other, the turn towards the environment and the non-human. The increased interest in the question of perpetration and complicity has gone hand in hand with a critical interrogation of the perpetrator–victim–bystander triad and a shift towards more relational and dynamic conceptions of violence. The environmental turn in memory studies is beginning to rethink memory in terms of more-than-human temporalities or scales, as well as developing new conceptualizations of trauma and victimhood. The aim of this essay is twofold: first, it will briefly sketch each of these developments, bringing out possible points of convergence and divergence. Second, it will explore the potential for memory studies in bringing these two strands together, taking the re-emergence of tribunal theatre as a key example of the cultural imaginary of the genocide–ecocide nexus.

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Section: The Environmental Turnmentioning

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Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus

Knittel

2023

Memory Studies

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“…Simon Schama's opus, Landscape and Memory (1995) drew attention to the multiple ways in which Western culture – including architecture, folk-lore, literature, art and agriculture reminds us of human entanglements with nature, from land to wood, from water to rock. More recent work is increasingly concerned with how climate change is being remembered within literature and other art forms (Crownshaw 2017; Craps and Crownshaw 2018); the overlaps between racism and environmental memory (Bond and Rapson 2020) and the ways in which climate change and human activities are expressed through ‘non-human life forms’ and ‘non-biological matter’ (De Massol de Rebetz 2019, 2020). What my agenda addresses are the entanglements of neurodiversity with eco-diversity: rewilding Memory Studies, I argue, crucially requires that we remember both.…”

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Rewilding memory

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2022

Mem. Mind & Media

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Rewilding memory provides the basis for a new theoretical and practical agenda to bring greater neurological human diversity and ecological diversity into research and teaching on memory, mind and media. The article develops the concept of ‘more-than-human-memory’ to refer to the co-construction of memories between diverse humans and the environment. The article draws on research that examined a transmedia corpus of 40 neurodivergent memory works (life writing, memoirs, autobiographical art, blogs and videos). It found that memory works by autistic people consistently remember the self in terms of the co-composition of human memories through and with the media and matter of environmental memories. The article explores the ways in which some autistic people's memory works decentre human memories through deep ecological memory, conversations with vibrant objects and memories of animating energies. The research suggests that such memories ‘rewild’ or eco-neuroqueer the human-centred and normatively biased assumptions of memory, mind and media that underpin psychology, philosophy of mind, media and memory studies. It contributes a new angle to research that addresses the dialogical relationship between what Barnier and Hoskins (2018) have termed ‘memory in the mind’ and ‘memory in the wild’. It also goes beyond extended mind theory that understands human memory as enhanced and extended through non-biological tools and suggests the significance to memory of the more-than-human living world. Importantly, it highlights connections between autistic more-than-human-memories and the conceptualisation and practices associated with the more-than-human in research shaped by eco-psychology, Indigenous Studies and Environmental Humanities.

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Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus

Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus

Rewilding memory

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