Introduction: Travel, locatedness, and new horizons in Memory Studies

• Main Authors: Maria Elisabeth Dorr, Astrid Erll, Erin Högerle, Paul Vickers, Jarula M.I. Wegner
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-11-01
• Series: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
• Subjects: cultural memory studies; media memory studies; travelling memory; locatedness of memory
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2019.1690840

This introduction outlines new developments in the field of cultural and media memory studies in the wake of the transcultural turn. It pays specific attention to the twofold dynamics of memory’s travel and locatedness. While in recent memory studies discourse there has been a tendency to see travel as the inspiration for innovative research, locatedness has become associated with old-fashioned, bounded approaches. Rather than reproduce the positive charging of travel and negative charging of locatedness, this special issue aims to emphasise the complexity of memory dynamics resulting from the interaction of the two poles and to make visible that the production, (re)mediation, and reception of the past in the present is constituted by both travel and locatedness.