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Creatively imagining communities: The Communities and Change exhibition
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Creatively imagining communities: The Communities and Change exhibition

Alison Atkinson-Phillips and Catherine Gilbert
Memory studies, Vol.18(2), pp.354-362
2025
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Abstract

The imaginative, and often speculative, approaches afforded by creative inquiry enable creative practitioners to interpret memory in material and embodied ways that are not always easily translated into traditional journal articles. As a community of scholars, it is important that Memory Studies takes this kind of critical-creative inquiry seriously as contributions to the field – not (only) as objects of study from which meanings are extracted and interpreted in a quest to produce knowledge, but as alternative forms of research ‘output’, producing and displaying knowledge on and in its own terms. While they have not been able to be included within this special edition, many of the artists and filmmakers who produced work for the 2023 Memory Studies Association annual conference cultural programme engaged deeply with the complexities of community as a site of memory and a locus of change...

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