‘Memory objects’: Material objects and memories of home in the context of intra-African mobility

Marschall, Sabine

doi:10.1177/1359183519832630

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“…When interviewed, Nina brought a book about the history, language, and culture of the country where she was born as part of the memory box research method explained above. For Nina, this book had become a ‘memory object’ (Marschall, 2019), providing comfort in older age that helped Nina find meaning in her life and connect her to her cultural and historical roots:As you get older, you revert to root . .…”

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Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality

Chappell

Welsh

2020

Sociological Research Online

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In this article, we examine the concept of resilience. Debates range from defining it as an individualised attribute to understanding it as a relational social process. Concerns about an ageing population alongside a growing interest in well-being have led to an increase in the use of the term ‘resilience’ in UK policy and political rhetoric. Developing strategies for ‘bouncing back’ from difficult circumstances has been at the heart of much discussion of resilience. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with older people in the UK, we explore their perspectives on resilience. We found that relationships, including intergenerational ones, are crucial to older people’s understandings of resilience. Our data showed that narratives from the past were used to sustain resilience in the present and that negotiation and exchange between generations, as well as intergenerational connections in the community, fostered resilience among our participants. We found that relationality was at the heart of older people’s perspectives on resilience and that the social process of resilience was acted out in their everyday interactions with others as well as through their memories of past interactions. This article argues that recognising the significance of these daily practices contributes to a more nuanced understanding of resilience.

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Section: Discussion and Findingsmentioning

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Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality

Chappell

Welsh

2020

Sociological Research Online

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“…Similar to reminiscence, there is inconsistency around the terms for the prompts used to foster reminiscence, for example: 'artefacts' (Lazar et al, 2016), 'memory triggers' (Pöllänen & Hirsimäki, 2014), and 'memory objects' (Marschall, 2019). Multisensory prompts are important in the reminiscence process for promoting recall and enriching the experience.…”

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Reminiscence-Focused Music Therapy to Promote Positive Mood and Engagement and Shared Interaction for People Living With Dementia

Kelly

Ahessy

2021

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Although there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that combining music therapy and reminiscence in a structured and complementary way may yield positive well-being outcomes for people with dementia, there is a gap in the literature combining both in equal measure. Furthermore, there are no known studies exploring the use of ‘associative items’ as part of the combined intervention and no known standardised protocol or method currently exists. This mixed methods study aims to explore whether combining music therapy and reminiscence with associative items for people with dementia may promote positive mood and engagement levels and shared interaction through (a) musical expression, (b) reminiscence and (c) verbal interaction. Five weekly reminiscence-focused music therapy (RFMT) sessions with associative items were conducted with a group of five people with dementia living in a residential care unit. Results from the Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) revealed that the RFMT intervention was highly effective in promoting positive mood and engagement levels and shared interaction. Participants exhibited considerable positive mood and engagement (+3) 51.6%, and high positive mood and engagement (+5) 38.2%, of the total time observed. The three most frequent behaviours across the five RFMT sessions included musical expression, which was observed 53.2% of the time, reminiscence, observed 23% of the time, and verbal interaction, observed 34% of the total time observed. Data from the music therapist’s reflective journal and session summaries revealed that the associative items prompted reality orientation, verbal interaction, and cognitive stimulation. The music elements were found to increase group cohesion, stimulate cognition, and act as an anchor, re-orientating group members intermittently. Implications of practice are considered, and future recommendations of practice are outlined.

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“…These objects are believed to be better in quality and testify of more taste. Also, memory objects (Marshall 2019), referring to their own cultural and personal background are placed in the interior, such as an inherited table from the parental house, a Delftware plate, a painting made by a relative, cups and plates with folkloric motives, a wooden shoe, a picture of a Dutch landscape, or children's books in Dutch (Figs. 2 and 3).…”

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“They have no taste in Morocco.” Home furnishing, belonging, and notions of religious (im)perfection among white Dutch and Flemish converts in Morocco

Laan

2021

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This article focuses on furnishing practices in the domestic space of the homes of white Flemish and Dutch Muslim female converts to Islam who made hijra (Islamic migration) to Morocco. Fed up with European Islamophobia and longing for a place that supports and strengthens their faith, they decided to emigrate to a Muslim country. However, remarkably, once settled in Morocco, many experience discontent with regard to a perceived “lack of true Islam” in the country. To gain insight into the positions and experiences of these women, I look at how they create a sense of belonging through furnishing practices in the domestic space of their new homes. I am interested in how various senses of belonging are expressed and come together in relation to their construction of religious belonging and place, and are renegotiated through domestic decoration practices. Building on literature on home, transnational migration, conversion, and material religion, I demonstrate that mechanisms of distinction and notions of religious (im)perfection intersect in the organization of the domestic space. Based on ethnographic accounts, I argue that my interlocutors bring a “culturalized” West-European Islam to Morocco, with tastes and sensibilities that jostle uneasily against local Moroccan religious practices but also allows them to repair some of the privileges they lost upon their conversion in their homeland. Lastly, this article shows that it is through the engagement with mundane material forms, but also with absence and empty spaces, that Islam becomes present in their domestic spaces, enhancing the cultivation of their ethical selves.

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‘Memory objects’: Material objects and memories of home in the context of intra-African mobility

Cited by 32 publications

References 27 publications

Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality

Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality

Reminiscence-Focused Music Therapy to Promote Positive Mood and Engagement and Shared Interaction for People Living With Dementia

“They have no taste in Morocco.” Home furnishing, belonging, and notions of religious (im)perfection among white Dutch and Flemish converts in Morocco

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