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The Scarred Stone: The Strom Thurmond Monument

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2010
Joseph Crespino analyzes the addition of Strom Thurmond's African American daughter's name to his South Carolina State House statue.
Joseph Crespino
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International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region

open access: yesBaltic Region, 2023
This article aims to analyse the structure of sites in the Kaliningrad region commemorating events, phenomena or figures of international history, as well as to reveal their symbolic significance.
Dmitrii V. Mankevich, Maxim E. Megem
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Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Tom Zarilli, Highway 19 and 41, central Georgia, 2004. Beginning in 2003, Tom Zarrilli has traveled around the American Southeast documenting handmade memorials to departed loved ones found alongside highways. He discovered differences in not only
Tom Zarrilli
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Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2023
Scott L. Matthews reviews Berkley Hudson\'s O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble & Resilience in the American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
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Science Fiction Series Orville as Space for the Memorial Cultures and Memory Wars

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2023
The relevance of collective memory analysis comes from the increasing role of memorization in social processes, which are currently acquiring increasingly significant conflict potential.
M. W. Kyrchanoff
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Congregation

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2010
In Gulfport, Mississippi and Decatur, Georgia, poet Natasha Trethewey reads "Congregation," a meditation about family members, friends, and landscape affected by Hurricane Katrina, and a coming to terms with autobiography and loss.
Natasha Trethewey
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Fife Family Cemetery

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2008
Sharon Fife gives a tour of her family cemetery in Hughes County, Oklahoma, and describes the Creek Christian practice of building grave houses.
Craig Womack, Rosemary McCombs Maxey
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Culture and Memory

open access: yes, 2020
Within the course of a day people perform innumerable feats of memory. They are involved in remembering when they search for their keys, find their way through a city, reminisce on episodes from their past, or join in commemorations such as independence days and religious rituals.
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Aspects of memory acts: transnational cultural memory and ethics [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2011
In the paper I use arguments from Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin and Judith Butler to show how the concepts of collective memory and of performativity can help to formulate some ideas about what an ethics of memory can deal with. The positions of speakers or agents and the question of responsibility play a fundamental role in this argument ...
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Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2019
Daniel A. Pollock reviews Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts's Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (New York: The New Press, 2018).
Daniel A. Pollock
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