ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the latest research on the interrelationship between important notions of memory, place, and identity across disciplines and scholarly traditions. Memory is relevant to everyone, always, anywhere. Memories and remembrance fuel, shape, and give life to our positioning as individuals, communities and nations. Remembering is also a fundamental act of being human, whether acts of remembrance are palpable or ephemeral, individual or collective, present or absent, painful or celebratory. Memory and sense of place have to do with more than ‘physical’ monuments and structures. The visualisation of pasts and present as they intersect in memory and perception is also an increasingly powerful theme in research across disciplines. We believe in working with the entanglements of memory and place to better understand the contemporary world, to propel us forward into fairer academic and social practices and futures.
