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Artistic and activist memory-work: Approaching place-based practice
While an emerging interdisciplinary field of memory studies exists, what it is and might
become remains open to debate. This article calls for a memory studies agenda that
remains sensitive to the ways individuals and groups experience memory as multisensual,
spatial ways of understanding their worlds. Artistic and activist memory-work in
particular offers at least two contributions to such an agenda. It challenges ontological
assumptions that underpin much of the recent interdisciplinary body of research on
memory, including understandings of site, social and body memory, and the role of
place in memory; and it invites scholars to consider their research in terms of socially
responsible place-based practice. In this article, I discuss sites of social engagement,
embodied and social memory, and wounded places to consider how artistic and activist
place-based practice might fundamentally change how memory studies scholars think
about their research