ABSTRACT

This chapter considers three primary modes of thinking about and reading memory and landscape. These are representational approaches to memory, or modes of reading memory landscapes; the politics of memory representations and landscape choice; and non-representational frames for thinking through non-material memory traces. Integral to thinking through non-representational examples of memory-work have been acknowledging the multiple and oft-unexpected openings understood, recalled and re-enacted in the fabric of experience of everyday landscapes. Reading the landscape for representations of memory draws attention to relationships between memory and place. Memory sites persist as permanent parts of everyday landscapes and should also be considered in their everyday context. The reading of landscape – for memory, but also for markers of cultural identity – is a longstanding and pivotal research tool for humanities and social science scholars. Connections between landscape and memory are well documented and have been the subject of sustained enquiry in the humanities and social sciences.