Reinventing the City, Revisiting the past: Mons 2015's Memoryscape
(2016) Development, Art(s) and Culture. Ninth interdisciplinary Conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture — Vol. 8, p. 96-106 (2016)
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- This paper focuses on Mons 2015. European Capital of Culture. The purpose is to understand how the working-class memory of the city was managed during this cultural year. We use the concept of ‘memoryscape’ developed by the anthropologist Paul Basu (2013). For Basu, memoryscape refers to the multiplicity of sites of memory and regimes of remembering. In our case, this concept of memoryscape suggests that the appropriation of the working-class history in Mons 2015 should not be considered from one single perspective. On the contrary, the miners’ past will be examined as a kind of landscape which elicits different regimes of memory, depending on the position of the actors and the specificity of the sites that are involved in the different cultural projects.
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Fevry, S., & Jojczyk, J. (2016). Reinventing the City, Revisiting the past: Mons 2015’s Memoryscape. Development, Art(s) and Culture. Ninth interdisciplinary Conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture, 8, 96-106. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/74334 (Original work published 2016)