Down memory lane: eliciting affective geographies and sites of memory.

Abstract

Cognitive faculty + socially and culturally construction • Memory as a politicised terrain • Selections and interpretations of the past • Creation of narratives of the self and identity (Staiger et al., 2009) • … places are composed not only of cultural heritage, but also of symbols and representations. A place is a discourse – a way of constructing meaning –, which influences and organizes both the actions of visitors and the conceptions of the local residents themselves. Visitors perceive images by producing meanings about a particular place with which they can identify. These are contained in the stories that are told about it; memories which connect its present with its past; and images which are constructed of it. (Groves and Go, 2009: 15)