Beskrivelse
Photographs are powerful memory objects due to both their indexicality, depicting actual places and people, and their affective dimensions, which invites us to engage with them based on our own needs and desires. This paper focusses on photo elicited memory work amongst postcolonial migrants in the Netherlands and examines the interplay between independent memory work and institutional heritage projects. The cases selected concern groups, who were to various degrees forced to repatriate from Indonesia (formerly the colony Nederlands Indië) to the Netherlands between approx. 1945 and 1962. These communities have a variety of cultural backgrounds (i.e., white Dutch families, mixed Dutch-Indigenous families, Moluccan soldier families, Chinese families, etc.). I am particularly interested in how younger people engage creatively with the fates of their grand- and great-grand-parents through affiliative postmemory (Hirsch, 2012), and how they connect with each other across cultural boundaries and thereby negotiate their shared experiences as minoritized youth in Dutch national memory culture. I examine the use of photography in the exhibition Our Country – Decolonization, generations, stories, opened in February 2022 at Museum Sophiahof (den Haag, NL), as well as memory work around family photographs on community websites and in social media.Biographical note:
| Periode | 3 jul. 2023 → 7 jul. 2023 |
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| Begivenhedstitel | Seventh Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) : Communities and Change |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, StorbritannienVis på kort |