The interplay of memory and matter: narratives of former Finnish Karelian child evacuees
After the Second World War, Finland had to cede territories to the Soviet Union and Finnish people from those areas were evacuated. In this article we analyse the narrated memories of former Karelian child evacuees. We focus on the sites of memory and the materiality of memory practices as they are...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Oral History. - Oral History Society. - 44(2016), 2, Seite 59-68 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Oral History |
| Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences Social sciences History Biological sciences Arts Political science Physical sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | After the Second World War, Finland had to cede territories to the Soviet Union and Finnish people from those areas were evacuated. In this article we analyse the narrated memories of former Karelian child evacuees. We focus on the sites of memory and the materiality of memory practices as they are reflected in these narratives. We examine how narrated memories, both written and oral, are formed in the interplay of embodied recollections of the childhood evacuation, with the intra-action of matter such as sources and mementos, and immaterial things such as affects and emotions. We conclude that things and matter are agential in six ways in narrated memories. |
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| ISSN: | 01430955 |