Abstract
ABSTRACT Current research on the Second Indochina War, or the ‘Vietnam War’, largely focuses on memory narratives of prominent figures and institutions while overlooking lived experiences of Vietnamese people. Drawing primarily on cultural geographical knowledge of memory and home, this paper explores how Vietnamese people – in Việt Nam and abroad – live through memories of the War across places and times. Specifically, this paper adopts autoethnography and storytelling to tell candid stories of how my Vietnamese Australian family experiences, feels, and constructs war memories within our homes in Việt Nam and Australia. These stories provide evocative insights into the domestic geographies of intergenerational and transnational war memories, and the emotional complexities related to place-based pasts and presents. Overall, this paper contributes to understanding of the cultural geographies of memory, place, emotion, and home, as well as enhances the shift towards storytelling, personal and family histories, and (auto)ethnography as potent conceptual and methodological frameworks to study micro-political memories.
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