Cultural–Historical Geographies of the Archive: Fragments, Objects and Ghosts

Mills, Sarah

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“…Horton andKraftl 2006, 2012;Kraftl 2016 (Mills 2013). I argue that just as it is impossible for those working in contemporary contexts to ascertain the 'absolute truth' in interviews with children and young people (or importantly any human participant regardless of age), accounts in historical material by 'young ghosts' are also partial (Mills 2012).…”

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Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

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2017

Children's Geographies

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“…Cultural and historical geographers have increasingly reflected on the emotional encounters and experiences of archival research (Bailey et al 2009;Mills 2013 archives enable a re-performance of traces from the past, not just the capacity to store them.…”

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Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

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2017

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“…However, and this introduces my second point, an increasing number of geographers are demonstrating that it is possible to historicise geographies of practice without deadening what has gone before. 20 Responding to the theoretical agenda set by NRT, these researchers have sought to experiment and extend the mainstay of historical methods and empirical materials in order to retrace and re-present past (pre-discursive) practices. As Lorimer outlines in his most recent review of the sub-discipline, historical geographers have drawn creative resource from both conventional and less conventional sources to explore historical geographies of practice, skill and embodiment, including visual sources and records, oral history, music and sound recordings, material artefacts and remainders and even physical landscapes.…”

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The taxidermist’s apprentice: stitching together the past and present of a craft practice

Patchett

2016

cultural geographies

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University of Bristol -Explore Bristol Research General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms The taxidermist's apprentice: stitching together the past and present of a craft-skill Merle PatchettUniversity of Bristol, UK Abstract How do you witness the development and reproduction of a craft practice? This essay explores this provocation in relation to the craft practice of taxidermy and, in so doing, aims to stitch together non-representational and historical geographic concerns within the discipline. Mobilising and developing on an Ingoldian perspective on the process of skill, the author places herself in the position of apprentice to a practising taxidermist in recognition that the position of learner is a highly instructive context in which to enquire into how present-day practice relates to a representational culture charting the development of the craft in historical 'how-to-do' manuals. When juxtaposing contemporary ethnographies of taxidermy practice with descriptions of practice in historical 'howto-do' manuals, the author shows how past and present practice resonates rather than replicates. Overall, this article aims to introduce and develop theoretical and methodological pathways for studying and storying (historical) geographies of craft and skilled practices.

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“…The archive is increasingly understood in the discipline as a space of documentary investigation but also as a space of embodied encounter and a discursive phenomenon that intertextually dreams of including us all (Lorimer 2009, Mills 2013. But geographers have not paid as much attention to postcolonial marginal, or absent, voices.…”

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Empirical and analytical subaltern space? Ashrams, brothels and trafficking in colonial Delhi

Legg

2016

Cultural Studies

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In this paper, I will engage with Gayatri Spivak's writings on the figure of the subaltern, focusing on a recurrent tension in her writings, and in readings of them. The tension is between two seemingly contradictory definitions of the subaltern. One, more empirical definition, has featured in Spivak's writings for over 25 years and identifies the subaltern as the non-elite, the immobile or the figure beyond the reach of the state. Against this more empirical definition comes the famous analytical definition of the subaltern as he or she that 'cannot speak', being defined by their inaccessibility in the archive, as broadly conceived. This paper will argue that these two interconnected definitions have their respective forms of space, which suggest and demand different methodologies. I will suggest that an over-emphasis on the analytical definition has led to an over-cautious approach to subaltern spaces, neglecting the compulsion to attempt to find and say something about subaltern spaces, as suggested by Spivak. The paper demonstrates this approach through the examination of a report into abuse of women in some of Delhi's ashrams in the 1930s, such as to suggest how we can use studies of empirically archived subaltern space to think about the analytically subaltern spaces that must always be beyond exploration.

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Cultural–Historical Geographies of the Archive: Fragments, Objects and Ghosts

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Cited by 51 publications

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Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

The taxidermist’s apprentice: stitching together the past and present of a craft practice

Empirical and analytical subaltern space? Ashrams, brothels and trafficking in colonial Delhi

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