Unpopular Archives

Morin, Karen M.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2010.500987

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“…Recently, however, a number of scholars have engaged the archive differently, exploring archiving practices themselves in different ways (Ashmore et al . ; Cameron and Matless ; Cresswell ; DeLeeuw ; DeSilvey ; Driver and Jones ; Kurtz ; Lambert ; Lorimer ; Lorimer and Philo ; Mills ; Morin ; Ogborn ; Withers ; Yusoff 2008). All archives, Charlie Withers observes, are the ‘result of contingency, of the haphazard accumulation of “stuff”’ (2002, 305).…”

Section: Approaching the Archive Ethnographically – And Autoethnograpmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…; Cresswell ; DeSilvey ; Gagen et al . ; Lorimer ; Lorimer and Philo ; Mills ; Morin ; Ogborn ; Yusoff 2008; see below), in this paper I explore a shift in method, methodology and practice to focus on understanding the archive and archival resources differently: as collections that grow and change, as collections that scholars can contribute to, and explicitly also as our own collections – collections that reside with us in our homes and offices and become parts of our personal lives. As example of how such collecting practices matter, I examine my own collecting practices, collecting materials typically overlooked by archives and libraries: tourist souvenirs most often classified as kitsch.…”

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Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory: a story of archival autoethnography

DeLyser

2014

Trans Inst British Geog

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Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory: a story of archival autoethnography Dydia DeLyserThis paper engages recent creative approaches to the archive in geography to explore an approach I term archival autoethnography: collecting and contributing to the archive ourselves, and critically engaging with those practices. I use my own collection of kitsch souvenirs of the 19th-century southern California novel Ramona -nearly all acquired after eBay auctions transformed the geography of collectibles sale and acquisition -to show how collecting such objects transformed my research, lending insights into tourist experiences more than a century old and revealing how kitsch souvenirs help build intimate geographies of social memory. Publishing with illustrations from my collection drew public attention to the collection and eventually aided in the reinterpretation of two historic landmarks long linked to the novel. Contrary to prevailing interpretations of kitsch then, this paper reveals the cultural and political agency of kitsch souvenirs in shaping social memory. I show how moving derided objects into the realm of my scholarly research enabled me to build an alternative archive that shed new light on a historical topic, leading to the unexpected impact of my research in the broader community. I reveal how collecting and contributing to the archive ourselves, and analysing those practices in archival autoethnography, become valuable geographical research practices.

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Section: Approaching the Archive Ethnographically – And Autoethnograpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory: a story of archival autoethnography

DeLyser

2014

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…In support of this prognosis, there continue to be productive interactions between historical geographers and historians of geography, particularly around studies of reading and reception (Keighren, 2010;Morin, 2010;Lambert, 2009;Ogborn, 2011;Withers and Mayhew, 2011). Charlie Withers's (2010) excellent study of the geographies and geographers involved in the British Association for the Advancement of Science over the 19th and 20th centuries sets a new standard for this tradition.…”

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History and philosophy of geography II

Powell

2014

Progress in Human Geography

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This report juxtaposes recent statements on geographical knowledge by Robert Kaplan and David Harvey to review current concerns in the history and philosophy of geography. Three general trends are identified. First, there have been attempts to address the geographical contributions evident in the corpus of key thinkers, particularly Immanuel Kant. Second, a broader concern with articulating histories of disciplinary subfields, such as cultural, economic and physical geography, has been evident, often connected to personal biographies and reminiscences. Third, a body of work has attempted to put geography’s story into dialogue with that of the wider social sciences, especially for the Cold War period. The paper concludes by noting the continuing difficulties of engaging with the histories and philosophies of geography.

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The Geography and Area Studies Interface from the Second World War to the Cold War

Ashutosh

2017

Geographical Review

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Disciplinary geography's history represents an important source for contemporary debates over the status of geographical knowledge across the social sciences. This article argues for a reorientation of geography's history by examining its interface with the development of area studies in the United States. It investigates the epistemological and institutional transformations that occurred in the decades before and after the Second World War as the regional concept transmuted into area studies. The article finds that although geography's regional concept shaped the spatial constructions of area studies, the latter's imaginative geographies fixed the regional concept along geopolitical visions of the nation‐state and Cold War regional blocs that continue to occlude social scientific attempts to redraw the borders of the world.

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Unpopular Archives

Cited by 4 publications

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Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory: a story of archival autoethnography

Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory: a story of archival autoethnography

History and philosophy of geography II

The Geography and Area Studies Interface from the Second World War to the Cold War

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