Public Memory

The Failure of Memory: Reflections on Rhetoric and Public Remembrance

by Kendall Phillips

Engaging ‘Gangland’ Visual Culture: Memorializing Beltzhoover’s Victims of Violence 1993-1997

by Sharif Bey

Published in Studies in Art Education, 2012

Abstract
This autoethnographic study contextualizes gangland visual culture (graffiti, tattoos, public/private... more Abstract
This autoethnographic study contextualizes gangland visual culture (graffiti, tattoos, public/private shrines), in order to illustrate how young African-American males memorialized victims of violence between the years 1993-1997 in Beltzhoover, an inner city African-American community on Pittsburgh’s Southside. The author, a former resident of the Beltzhoover community, describes the interactive nature of these visual phenomena with the intention of illustrating how memorial sites are created in the aftermath of personal tragedy and how they continue to impact the public memory of Beltzhoover residents. By additionally focusing on the testimonies of mourning families, friends, and other memorializing works of art, the author discusses ways in which these visual culture environments merit pedagogy.

Memory, Race, and Place

by Lori Lee

Co-authored with Barbara Heath.

Historical archaeologists are increasingly studying the formation, operation, and maintenance of racial groups in the... more Historical archaeologists are increasingly studying the formation, operation, and maintenance of racial groups in the past and the ways in which individual memories are transformed into shared social memories through the acts of remembering, forgetting, and imagining. Drawing on historical and archaeological data and oral history, this paper considers the intersection of race, landscape,and memory at archaeological sites throughout the American South, including Poplar Forest, a plantation located in Virginia’s western piedmont. These studies illustrate how memory and race intersected throughout physical and social landscapes. The discussion is grounded in the belief that changing physical landscapes structure and reflect negotiations of race and inform historical memory.

Children of the Greek Civil War. Refugees and the Politics of Memory

by Riki Van Boeschoten

book co-authored with Loring Danforth at University of Chicago Press

Construir ciudad. La acción local como vía de transferencia del conocimiento histórico: el caso de Salamanca. // Building the City. Local Action and Historical Knowledge Transfer: The Case Study of Salamanca.

by Alejandra Sánchez Polo

Co-authored with Álvaro Carvajal Castro; published in Arkeogazte, 1, 2011.

La reflexión sobre la dimensión social de los historiadores cuenta ya con una larga tradición. Sin embargo, las... more La reflexión sobre la dimensión social de los historiadores cuenta ya con una larga tradición. Sin embargo, las consideraciones suelen quedar restringidas al ámbito del pensamiento historiográfico. Es por ello que creemos preciso polemizar sobre las posibilidades prácticas de hacer efectiva dicha dimensión social. Este planteamiento implica una doble reivindicación: por un lado, del conocimiento histórico como herramienta de transformación de la sociedad; por otro, como hipótesis de trabajo, la de los historiadores como agentes sociales con capacidad y legitimidad para actuar como tal fuera del espacio académico. En este artículo, pretendemos estudiar el ámbito inmediato en el que dicha acción puede llevarse a cabo: la ciudad. Para ello, hemos tomado como caso de estudio la ciudad que habitamos y en la que trabajamos: Salamanca. Llevaremos a cabo un análisis de las vías potenciales de transferencia del conocimiento histórico, así como de los ámbitos específicos en los que la participación del historiador podría contribuir a la construcción social de la ciudad. // Reflections on the social dimension of history and historians have a long tradition. However, they are normally kept within the limits imposed by historiography. We believe that it is necessary to discuss the practical possibilities of making history´s social dimension effective. This aim is based on two claims: first, that historical knowledge can and should play a part in the transformation of society; second, that historians can be social agents with a legitimate capacity of action outside the academic field. In this article, we want to consider the immediate social milieu in which that action could take place: the city. We took Salamanca, the city in which we live and work, as a case study, in order to analyze the available and potential means for the transfer of historical knowledge and the specific areas in which historians could contribute to the social building of the city.

State power, hegemony, and memory: Lotman and Gramsci

by Marek Steedman

Memories of the British Empire.

by Susan Condor

(In)Visibility of the Enslaved within Online Plantation Tourism Marketing: A Textual Analysis of North Carolina Web Sites

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H., and E. Arnold Modlin, Jr. 2008. “(In)Visibility of the Enslaved within Online Plantation Tourism Marketing: A Textual Analysis of North Carolina Websites.” Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing 25(3-4): 265-281. Contribution to special issue “Geography and Tourism Marketing” (guest edited by Alan Lew and David Duval).

The Politics of Preserving the King's Courts: Why We Should Take Elvis Fans Seriously

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. “The Politics of Saving the King’s Courts: Why We Should Take Elvis Fans Seriously.” The Southern Quarterly 46(1): 46-77.

Naming Streets for Martin Luther King, Jr.: No easy road

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 2006. “Naming Streets after Martin Luther King, Jr.: No Easy Road.” Landscape and Race in the United States, Routledge Press (edited by Richard Schein), pp. 213-236.

New memorial landscapes in the American South: An introduction

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 2000. “New Memorial Landscapes in the American South: An Introduction.” Professional Geographer 52(4): 658-660. Introduction to focus section “New Memorial Landscapes in the American South” (organized by Derek H. Alderman).

Branded: The Economic Geographies of Streets Named in Honor of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.*

by Derek Alderman

Mitchelson, Matthew, Derek H. Alderman, Jeff Popke. 2007. “Branded: The Economic Geographies of MLK Streets.” Social Science Quarterly 88(1): 120-145.

Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South:(Re) naming of Streets in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 1996. “Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: The (Re) Naming of Streets in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Southeastern Geographer 36(1): 51-69.

Writing on the Graceland wall: on the importance of authorship in pilgrimage landscapes

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. “Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in Pilgrimage Landscapes.” Tourism Recreation Research 27(2): 27-34. Contribution to special issue “Sacred Journeys” (guest edited by Dallen Timothy).

Street names and the Scaling of Memory: The Politics of Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr within the African American Community

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 2003. “Street Names and the Scaling of Memory: The Politics of Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. within the African-American Community.” Area 35(2): 163-173.

Memory and place: geographies of a critical relationship

by Derek Alderman

Hoelscher, Steven and Derek H. Alderman. 2004. “Memory and Places: Geographies of a Critical Relationship.” Social and Cultural Geography 5(3): 347-355. Introduction to special issue “Place and Memory” (organized by Derek Alderman, Steve Hoelscher, and Owen Dwyer).

A Street Fit for a King: Naming Places and Commemoration in the American South

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. 2000. “A Street fit for a King: Naming Places and Commemoration in the American South.” Professional Geographer 52(4): 672-684. In focus section “New Memorial Landscapes in the American South” (organized by Derek H. Alderman).

Putting memory in its place: the politics of commemoration in the American South

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. and Owen J. Dwyer. 2004. “Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of Commemoration in the Post-Civil Rights Movement South.” In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (edited by Don Janelle, Barney Warf, and Kathy Hansen), pp. 55-60.

Memorial Landscapes: Analytic Questions and Metaphors

by Derek Alderman

Dwyer, Owen J. and Derek H. Alderman. 2008. “Memorial Landscapes: Analytic Questions and Metaphors.” GeoJournal 73(3): 165-178. Contribution to special issue “Collective Memory and the Politics of Urban Space” (guest edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu).

Trauma written in the flesh: tattoos as memorials and stories

by Derek Alderman

Gentry, Glenn W. and Derek H. Alderman. 2007. “Trauma Written in the Flesh: Tattoos as Memorials and Stories.” Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Kristen Barber), pp. 184-197.