The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making

Abstract

In April 2020, 3 weeks into the first English COVID-19 lockdown, my father died after a short illness. One of the first things my mother did after he died was to throw out his Harris 1 tweed jacket. My father had bought the jacket on holiday in Scotland over a decade previously and in recent years had worn it around the house as it became too scruffy for outside

Nuclear memory: Archival, aesthetic, speculative

“…First, a number of scholars have highlighted the role of landscape in the production and stabilisation of memory (Holdsworth 2022;Legg 2007;Maus 2015;McEwen et al 2017;Storm 2021). For example, emphasis has been placed on the relationship between landscape and collective memory of identity belonging to territory and nationality (Paasi 2020;Tolia-Kelly 2016;Wylie 2007).…”