ABSTRACT
The Cultural Geographies of a Childhood Home, it is quite obvious that Peter's childhood does, indeed, cast a long shadow over adult life'. This shadow' can be understood in terms of the hauntology of childhood. Hauntology, a theory of ghosts founded upon Jacques Derrida's deconstruction methodology begs for a sensitivity to both the presence of absence' and the absence of presence' in our experience of the everyday. However, our memories of our past self our memories of childhood are forever with us. It is quite an easy task to pinpoint the end of Peter's childhood. Furthermore, it was when the brief, but brutal, Falklands War was fought. Paris also pays particular attention to the ways in which children or, rather, boys help perpetuate the heroism associated with fighting through play, their choice of reading, and the films that they watch, and so on. Thus, the horizons of Peter's cultural geographies, had, come the end of 1982, moved on forever.
