ABSTRACT

This chapter illustrates the ways in which social memory and systems of identification with landscape, for post-colonial migrants, are integral to the everyday environments of home. It starts by working through a conceptualization of re-memory and will situate ecological memories. The chapter presents two forms of memory; ecological memory and re-memory; embedded in these are ecological memories that connect the women with their shared 'territories of culture'. It argues that lived environments harbour the precipitates of re-memory as they figure as narratives of social heritage. Signification of identity, history and heritage, through the material cultures, relies on the continuing dependence on the past for sustenance in the present. The material nature and biography of these visual cultures are considered here alongside the shift in their meaning in their new sites of display after migration. This chapter ends with the material nature of the visual and considers the interwovenness of the formal registers of visuality and materiality.