ABSTRACT
Organised tours at historical sites and other places of memory are a form of mapping through bodily practice. Stories emerge as people journey through space and interact with specifically curated material culture invoked by different narrative themes. Significant portions of tour experiences are unscripted—people ask questions, weather conditions change tour routes, and guides or tour-takers might show discomfort with difficult episodes of a place’s past. Thus, every iteration of a tour is different despite the intent of those who first authored the narrative’s path. Narrative mapping is a reiterative mobile methodology designed for both researchers and practitioners to document narrative themes as they are performed across space. It is attuned not just to the performance of the official narrative but also to the interactions of bodies and inanimate objects in space that augment, interrupt or otherwise contribute to a tour’s emergent meanings.
