Abstract
Abstract. Conceptualised from a practice theory perspective, "landscape" can be employed as an overarching term encompassing otherwise divergent perspectives within geographies of memory: landscape of memory can denote social practice, meaningful materiality, individual experience, and collective imaginations as constituent of localised memory. Using Theodore Schatzki's practice theory, landscapes of memory are described as a social phenomenon: practices of memory contextualise certain places as meaningful in relation to the past. In turning to small Cold War munitions bunkers, by way of example, it is demonstrated how this perspective broadens the scope of geographies of memory to include everyday practices and their relation to collective memories.
Highlights
From a geographical perspective, material patterns or outcomes of remembrance, social processes of remembering, and the actors involved in memory work are all worthwhile subjects of investigation
I suggest that practice theory, which has been advocated in human geography as a means to turn attention to mundane practices (Everts et al, 2011), can accommodate these tensions and theorise them within a common social ontology
In other words, are integrated into the same teleoaffective structure and exhibit the same practical understandings specific to a practice. Both monument protection and bunkerhunting share similar practical understandings that aim to interpret certain structures as evidence of a time past and, of how these should be handled properly. While this may amount to diverging meanings in the arrangement, e.g. concerning different views on which information is necessary to appreciate the bunker as a relic of the Cold War, the general idea of the bunker as a relic is similar in both practices
Summary
Material patterns or outcomes of remembrance, social processes of remembering, and the actors involved in memory work are all worthwhile subjects of investigation. Theodore Schatzki’s (2012) vocabulary can be employed to analyse landscapes of memory by conceiving of them as a social phenomenon. While both terms – “landscape” and “memory” – suggest a holistic approach, when conceptualised in a practice framework, they are suitable to describe (rather than explain) activities that have often been overlooked. 4), I will show how heritage professionals, bunker-hunters, and geocachers explicitly and implicitly contribute to a landscape of memory of that era While their activities are discernible as different practices, they all share certain aspects that connect them as practices of localised memory. In looking at how memory is practised, and analysing the social phenomena these practices constitute, geographers can broach the issue of memory-making in unlikely or inconspicuous fields of investigation and broaden our understanding of localised social memories
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