TY - JOUR
T1 - Long Memories
T2 - Material Rhetoric as Evidence of Memory and a Potential Future
AU - Senda-Cook, Samantha
N1 - Funding Information:
Earlier versions of this paper were presented the Conference on Communication and the Environment in June of 2017 and at an invited talk at North Dakota State University in February of 2018. I would like to thank Creighton University’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship for their generous support of this project through a Summer Faculty Research Fellowship in 2017. Acknowledgments
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PY - 2020/8/7
Y1 - 2020/8/7
N2 - Residents of Gifford Park have used memories of the past—characterizing this place as violent—to celebrate their present place and identity. Whereas memory scholars have highlighted how people remember the past in nostalgic, idealized ways to cope with an uncertain present and future, this case study illustrates how remembering the past as especially dangerous grounds material changes for an idealized present and can assuage guilty feelings for a potentially-gentrified future. Additionally, I show how long-term field work can reveal slowly unfolding patterns of material rhetoric that shape the identity of community members and impact the narratives that they construct.
AB - Residents of Gifford Park have used memories of the past—characterizing this place as violent—to celebrate their present place and identity. Whereas memory scholars have highlighted how people remember the past in nostalgic, idealized ways to cope with an uncertain present and future, this case study illustrates how remembering the past as especially dangerous grounds material changes for an idealized present and can assuage guilty feelings for a potentially-gentrified future. Additionally, I show how long-term field work can reveal slowly unfolding patterns of material rhetoric that shape the identity of community members and impact the narratives that they construct.
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U2 - 10.1080/10570314.2020.1714073
DO - 10.1080/10570314.2020.1714073
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078433767
VL - 84
SP - 419
EP - 438
JO - Western Journal of Communication
JF - Western Journal of Communication
SN - 1057-0314
IS - 4
ER -