Chapter 3 Mnemonic Affordances of Family Photographs Assembling Memorability of Displacement and Soviet Repression

This chapter contributes to the discussions on memorability by applying assemblage theoretical thinking to the analysis of memory and by developing the notion of mnemonic affordance. It analyzes Ella Ojala's family photographs' affordances in the mediation of the memory of forced migration...

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Main Author: Savolainen, Ulla (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
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