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Cultural-historical geographies of the archive: fragments, objects and ghosts
This article reviews the increasingly diverse ways in which geographers are engaging with archives. Although traditionally associated with historical geography, cultural-historical geographers have recently 'animated' the archive and its collections of fragments, objects and ghosts. Through this article, I provide an overview of the central characteristics of work in this field, as well as considering the discipline's wider relationship with archival material. Overall, I reflect on the key challenges for geographers in animating and 'bringing to life' the archive - and by extension - the past.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Citation
MILLS, S., 2013. Cultural-historical geographies of the archive: fragments, objects and ghosts. Geography Compass, 7 (10), pp.701-713Publisher
© John Wiley & Sons Ltd / © The Author.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013Notes
This article was published in the journal Geography Compass [© John Wiley & Sons Ltd / © The Author]. The definitive version is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gec3.12071/abstracteISSN
1749-8198Publisher version
Language
- en