Birth stories: Childbirth, remembrance and ‘everyday’ heritage

Boyer, Kate; Hunter, Billie; Davis, Angela Y.

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100841

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“…The kinds of artefacts that are usually considered important to collect and display as part of heritage collections are often considered to be extraordinary in some way. In recent times, however, mundane objects and photographic images of everyday lives created by ‘ordinary’ people have begun to attract attention (Boyer et al, 2021). So too, the intense affective forces that are generated with and through ordinary objects, place and spaces have become a focus in social inquiry (Senior and McDuie-Ra, 2021; Gherardi, 2018; Bille and Simonsen, 2021).…”

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Socio-spatialities and affective atmospheres of COVID-19: A visual essay

Lupton

2022

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The COVID-19 crisis has generated an intensity of feeling globally, as people’s everyday spatial and embodied practices have been continually disrupted and fraught with anxiety and uncertainty. In this visual essay, I present and engage with smartphone photographs of public spaces in the Australian cities of Canberra and Sydney that I have accumulated as a ‘COVID Life’ archive. The photographs record my everyday experiences in and through spaces I inhabited and through which I moved. I have selected some of the images and provide a reflective analysis that draws on the concept of affective atmospheres to consider the sociomaterialities and spatialities evident in the images. I describe how the assemblages of people, things, place and space featured in these images generated a range of thoughts and feelings: both in the moment of capturing the images and in reviewing them at a later time as part of an archive of COVID memorialisation.

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