This dissertation considers the impact mobile media technologies have on the production and consumption of memory narratives and cultural memory discourses in Canada. Although this analysis pays specific attention to concepts of memory, heritage, and public history in its exploration of site-specific digital narratives, it is set within a larger theoretical framework that considers the relationship between mobile technology and place, and how the mobile phone in particular can foster both a sense of place and placelessness. This larger framework also includes issues of co-presence, networked identity, play, affect, and the phenomenological relationship between the individual and the mobile device. This is then considered alongside memory narratives (both on the national and quotidian levels) at specifically sanctioned sites of national commemoration (monuments, historic sites) and also in everyday urban spaces. To this end, this dissertation covers a wide range of augmented reality apps and forms of digital storytelling including locative media narratives, site-specific digital performances, social media and crowdsourced heritage archives, and urban mobile gaming and playful mapping. Despite common criticism that mobile phones only serve to distract us from our surrounding environment, I argue that mobile technology can generate deeper, more affective attachments to places by reformulating ways of perceiving and moving through them. They do this by insisting that place is more than just its material properties, but rather is composed of a fluctuating relationship between materiality, time, and affect. Following this framework, I also emphasize how mobile technology shifts the traditional mission of the archive to preserve and protect the past to something more playful, more affective, and more preoccupied with the circulation of the past in the present. Included in this analysis are crowdsourced archives created on social media platforms which, I argue, are particularly well suited to capturing the dynamic qualities of memory and living heritage practices. A contributing factor in this is the mobile phone’s position as a site of intimacy and co-presence, which situates it in a long history of communication technologies that employ rhetorical and technological strategies of co-presence, immediacy, and intimacy. Chapter one examines the role that locative media narratives play at official sites of memory in Canada’s capital region from app-based historical tours to more playful narrative encounters, through the lens of the archive and the repertoire. Chapter two then considers the digital site-specific performance piece, LANDLINE, to unpack how mobile media foster everyday place memories in urban spaces through the mobile phone’s position as a site of intimacy for geographically distant, but virtually co-present, individuals. Chapter three analyzes my own experimental method, Maplibs, which follows a mobile game structure to encourage participants to engage in acts of playful placemaking and collaborative storytelling in order to highlight an alternative process of engaging with place that carries the past forward in meaningful ways. And finally, chapter four analyzes the social media group “Lost Ottawa” to explore how collaborative memory communities mobilize through social media platforms like Facebook and create new forms of participatory heritage. In all of this, place is understood as a dynamic assemblage of stories and memories that the mobile phone, through its ubiquitous impact on social practices, plays a key role in shaping.

Diferentes políticas de colonização levaram migrantes à Amazônia Legal Brasileira e análises econômicas e políticas dessas marchas já foram realizadas. Todavia, pesquisas que analisam a memória cultural dos atores desse processo – os migrantes e os atingidos pelas políticas de colonização (neste caso os indígenas Xavante) – ainda são escassas. Buscando auxiliar no preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho se baseia em uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada em uma pequena cidade do Mato Grosso – Nova Xavantina –, tendo como objetivo compreender como a memória da cidade é mobilizada para segregar os Xavante no cenário local. A análise percorreu três eixos – mídia, educação e política – e estes apontam que a memória celebrada e destacada como oficial no município é a do grupo que chegou à região a partir da primeira política de colonização – a Marcha para o Oeste –, mesmo que os indígenas já estivessem no espaço antes. O trabalho mostrou também os meios usados para invisibilizar a memória Xavante em uma cidade que tem em seu nome uma homenagem aos indígenas, mas que lhes nega o protagonismo na história local. / Different colonization policies led migrants to the Brazilian Legal Amazon and economic and political analyses of these marches had already been carried out. However, research that analyzes the cultural memory of the actors in this process - migrants and those affected by colonization policies (in this case the Xavante Indians) - are still scarce. To fill this gap, this work is based on a qualitative research carried out in a small town of Mato Grosso - Nova Xavantina. The purpose is to understand how the memory of the town is mobilized to segregate the Xavante in the local scenario. The investigation covered three axes - media, education and politics - and these point out that the memory celebrated and highlighted as official in the municipality is from the group that arrived in the region in the first policy of colonization - the March to the West -, even though the natives had already been in space before. The research also showed the means used to make the Xavante memory invisible in a town that has in its name a tribute to the Indians, but which denies them the leading role in local history.

This dissertation is a study of cultural memory, exploring how superhero comic books, and their readers and creators, look back on and make sense of the past, as well as how they use that past in the creation of community and stories today. It is my contention that the superhero comics that exist as part of a long-standing "universe," particularly those published by DC and Marvel, are inextricably linked to a sense of cultural memory which defines both the organization of their fans and the history of their stories, and that cultural memory in comics takes the twinned forms of fandom and continuity. Comic book fandom, from its very inception, has been based around memories of past stories and recollections about favorite moments, creators, characters, etc. Because of this, as many of those fans have gone on to become creators themselves, the stories they have crafted reflect that continual obsession with the histories -- loosely termed "continuity" by creators, fans, and comic book scholars -- of these fictional universes. Often, this obsession translates into an engagement with actual events from the past. In many of these cases, as with much art and ephemera that is immersed in cultural memory, these fans-turned-creators combine their interest in looking at the history of the fictional universe with a working out of actual traumatic events. My case studies focus on superhero comic books that respond to such events, particularly World War II, the Vietnam War, and 9/11. / text

Nors Kauno miestas ir yra plačiai tyrinėtas, tačiau tam tikros jo zonos yra primirštos. Viena iš tokių zonų – Žemųjų Šančių kapinės, kurios esti pačiame Žemųjų Šančių pakraštyje, šalia Nemuno upės. Žemųjų Šančių kapinės yra neabejotinai vienas svarbiausių šios Kauno dalies objektų, tačiau nėra sulaukusios deramo akademinio dėmesio ypač kultūros paveldo srityje. Šio darbo objektas yra Žemųjų Šančių kapinės kurios matė visą šios Kauno dalies raidą ir yra tampriai surišta su bendruomenės veikla ir papročiais. Todėl šiame darbe bus siekiama atskleisti Žemųjų Šančių kapinių sociokultūrines vertes, kurios turėtų padėti šioms kapinėms įgauti deramą įvertinimą. Siekiant šio tikslo keliami šie darbo uždaviniai: • Atskleisti kultūrinės atminties teorijos pritaikymą bendruomenei svarbiems objektamstyrinėti; • Atskleisti Žemųjų Šančių istorinę vertę ir istorinius įvykius; • Atskleisti Žemųjų Šančių kapinėse dominuojančių antkapinių paminklų tipus ir medžiagas; • Atskleisti Žemųjų Šančių kapinėse dominuojančius antkapinių paminklų simbolius; • Atlikti apklausą ir atskleisti Žemųjų Šančių bendruomenei svarbias socialines ir kultūrines verte,s kurios slypi Žemųjų Šančių kapinėse. Tyrinėjimui pasitelkta aprašomasis ir apklausų metodai. Atlikus tyrimą, nustatyta Dėl savo geografinės padėties bei seno apželdinimo Žemųjų Šančių kapinės gali būti seniausia paupio gyvenvietės ar žvejų kaimelius menanti vieta, su vertinga perspektyva atsiveriančia į Nemuną - tai peizažinio kraštovaizdžio... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Kaunas city is well explored, but some regions of it remains to be investigated. One of them –Žemieji Šančiai Cemetery, situated in the border od Žemieji Šančiai, near the river Nemunas.The object is certainly one of the most important in the region, but still lacking of academic attention, expecially in the field of cultural inheritance and remains to be investigated. The target of the investigation is the Žemieji Šančiai Cemetery, closely related to activity and mores of the local community. The aim of the study is to reveal sociocultural values and denominations of Žemieji Šančiai Cemetery.The objectives of the investigation are: • To reveal applicability of the cultural memory theory for the investigation of socially significant objects; • To reveal Žemieji Šančiai historical values; • To reveal the main types of cemetery monuments and dominating material they made from. • To reveal the main symbols in the monuments. • To conduct a survey in order to reveal key social and cultural values for the community of Žemieji Šančiai. For this research desribing and interviewing methods were selected. Research results are: Because of it‘s geographical location and ancient planting the cemetery of Žemieji Šančiai could be the oldest place reminiscent of riverside settlements and fishermen villages, a remnant of a landscape in an urban environment.It‘s the only cemetery in the city revealing the identity and symbolism of cultural memory of the local community. The cemetery... [to full text]

This thesis proposes that integrated rituals of netherworld descent and heavenly ascent are represented in the Hebrew Bible as having been performed by Davidic royals – royal women, as well as male monarchs. In some instances (e.g. Psalms 2; 18; 24; 89:2-38; and 110) these rituals are represented idealistically, with Yahweh confirming the king’s ritual status and potency, through re-presented speech acts. In other instances, however, while an idealistic picture of monarchy continues to be upheld, it is subverted from within in varying ways (e.g. 2 Kgs 9:30-37; 11; Ps. 89:39-52; Isa. 14.4b-20; Jer. 13:18-20; Ezekiel 19). The differing portrayals of monarchy reflect the differing ways with which biblical texts are negotiating and interacting with ambiguous discourses embodying memories of monarchy. On the one hand, after the fall of monarchic Judah, ‘foreign’ monarchy (and especially trading monarchies, such as those of Phoenicia) were fetishised within biblical authors’ discourses of political and economic imperialism, and so Davidic monarchy became a signifier of an enchanting and mystifying ‘indigenous’ past. On the other hand, discourses concerning the past frequently referenced exile, and the collapse of monarchy. Some biblical representations of ritual netherworld descent and heavenly ascent acknowledge this latter, uncomfortable kind of remembering – even as they reify and reinforce these enchanting memories which they subvert. The remembered, cosmically liminal first temple and the remembered royal body become loci for these paradoxical, contradictory, and competing memories. This much is evident in mystifying royal cosmic liminality and heavenly ascent, access to divine knowledge, and mimesis of Yahweh; in cathartic myths of the subjugation of the forces of chaos and disorder, both cosmic and military; and in the subversion of the enchanting remembered Davidic cultic praxis of descent and ascent, through these motifs’ re-presentations in montages alongside rituals which connote displacement, destruction, profanation, desecration, subjugation and being forgotten. In these instances, the vulnerabilities inherent in cultural idealising of the Davidic monarchy’s potent cosmic liminality are brought into sharp relief.

Ce sujet propose de déconstruire les discours qui ont conduit à fixer dès le Moyen Age une mémoire officielle des origines chrétiennes du diocèse. Cette lecture est essentielle dans la mesure où l'historiographie a longtemps utilisé les récits hagiographiques sans réfléchir au contexte de leur genèse et de leur diffusion. Des travaux récents ont montré combien l'hagiographie était en fait un genre littéraire qui reproduisait un certain nombre de modèles et que l'historicité des vies de saints reposait seule dans le contexte qui les avait vu naître.Il s'agit d'étudier les saints évêques supposés avoir vécu avant l’an mil, et s'intéresser à l'évolution de leur figure jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age pour étudier la mémoire épiscopale dont l'hagiographie est le principal-mais non unique- vecteur. La question de la dimension politique de la sainteté, du culte des saints et de l'écriture hagiographique est en outre en plein renouvellement. Le Languedoc permet de conduire une première étude de cas régionale pour tester les constatations qui ont été faites ailleurs dans ce domaine. La problématique centrale de la thèse est donc la question de la mémoire et de ses enjeux politiques. Un inventaire raisonné servira de fondement à une synthèse permettant de comprendre dans quelle mesure la sainteté locale a participé à la construction d’un discours mémoriel sur les origines chrétiennes du diocèse. Ainsi, on comprendra ce qui, à plusieurs périodes du Moyen Age, a pesé dans la perception du passé mais on pourra appréhender également, une fois les différentes strates des discours sur le passé collectif du diocèse analysées, la réalité des changements politiques et territoriaux dans le Languedoc de l'Antiquité Tardive et du haut Moyen Age. / In order to study the relationship between hagiographic production and the formation of a memory of Christian origins, it is necessary to update the sources by analyzing the transmission of hagiographic texts and the establishment of new editions of these texts. What emerges in a study of fifteen dioceses in the South of France is a pattern which demonstrates that since Late Antiquity, the traditions that founded local churches were put into writing with the goal of shaping a memory of these events that was meaningful in the present time. Hagiographic tales were elaborated in periods of crisis, as if hagiography could pacify the present by evading the past's turpitudes at the service of competing powers who invented their own history. The Medieval period was marked by several phases of deeper embellishment of the hagiographic memory, as the figures of bishop saints was useful to both clergy and laymen. In particular, the relationship between cultural memory and hagiography crystallizes around places, marked by the presence of the saint through its relics, whose location in urban space often allows to explain the origin and the uses of Christian memory. This connection with sacred space forms a hagiographic productionwhich can be seen as a local adaptation of sacred history up to the 14th century, when the papacy's move to Avignon marked the last great phase of hagiographic production in the Southern France of the Medieval Period.

Diferentes políticas de colonização levaram migrantes à Amazônia Legal Brasileira e análises econômicas e políticas dessas marchas já foram realizadas. Todavia, pesquisas que analisam a memória cultural dos atores desse processo – os migrantes e os atingidos pelas políticas de colonização (neste caso os indígenas Xavante) – ainda são escassas. Buscando auxiliar no preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho se baseia em uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada em uma pequena cidade do Mato Grosso – Nova Xavantina –, tendo como objetivo compreender como a memória da cidade é mobilizada para segregar os Xavante no cenário local. A análise percorreu três eixos – mídia, educação e política – e estes apontam que a memória celebrada e destacada como oficial no município é a do grupo que chegou à região a partir da primeira política de colonização – a Marcha para o Oeste –, mesmo que os indígenas já estivessem no espaço antes. O trabalho mostrou também os meios usados para invisibilizar a memória Xavante em uma cidade que tem em seu nome uma homenagem aos indígenas, mas que lhes nega o protagonismo na história local. / Different colonization policies led migrants to the Brazilian Legal Amazon and economic and political analyses of these marches had already been carried out. However, research that analyzes the cultural memory of the actors in this process - migrants and those affected by colonization policies (in this case the Xavante Indians) - are still scarce. To fill this gap, this work is based on a qualitative research carried out in a small town of Mato Grosso - Nova Xavantina. The purpose is to understand how the memory of the town is mobilized to segregate the Xavante in the local scenario. The investigation covered three axes - media, education and politics - and these point out that the memory celebrated and highlighted as official in the municipality is from the group that arrived in the region in the first policy of colonization - the March to the West -, even though the natives had already been in space before. The research also showed the means used to make the Xavante memory invisible in a town that has in its name a tribute to the Indians, but which denies them the leading role in local history.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:08:18Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cetrafilho_j_me_ia.pdf: 2892865 bytes, checksum: 85f9b355d5094afa19caad95badb99e4 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Através da sua memória e de documentação existente, o autor traça uma trajetória de sua formação como espectador passando pelas diversas fontes que o alimentaram: o circo, o rádio, a música, os livros, o cinema, a televisão com ênfase no teatro, objeto da pesquisa. As livrarias, os cinemas, os teatros e a própria cidade de São Paulo são o pano de fundo para os espetáculos teatrais assistidos no período de 1964 a 2011. O autor faz um recorte, analisando mais detalhadamente os 27 espetáculos teatrais mais significativos de sua vida de espectador. Em tese, essa visão do espectador está isenta dos habituais didatismos de um professor, da alardeada neutralidade do crítico, do rigor analítico requerido aos historiadores e pesquisadores e permite transitar com a reação espontânea, a emoção, recordações que a memória guardou, acontecimentos curiosos ligados ao contexto da apresentação e tão importantes quanto aqueles ocorridos no palco. O estudo é completado com uma análise da presença/ausência do espectador na literatura teatral e com um levantamento das atividades da Casa do Espectador, entidade muito importante para o meio teatral paulistano, surgida em 1960 e desaparecida no início dos anos 1990 / The author relyes on his memory and on documents to outline the trajectory that lead to his education as a spectator going by the several sources that nourished him: the circus, the radio, the music, the books, the cinema, the television and mostly the theather, the very object of the research. The bookstores, the theathers and the city of São Paulo itself build the background for the plays seen from 1964 to 2011. The author analyzes in depht the 27 more signficant spectacles of his life as a spectator. In theory, the point of view of the spectator is free of the dictacticism of scholars as well as free of the often mentioned neutrality of the critics and the analytical rigor required from historioagraphers and researchers, and allows his spontaneous reaction on emotions, memories and curious events related to the spectacle itself, as important as the ones that took place on the stage. The study is completed with an analysis of the presence/absence of the spectator in the theatrical literature and the story of Casa do Espectador, a very relevant entity in the theatrical scene in São Paulo, founded in 1960 and closed in 1990

Diferentes políticas de colonização levaram migrantes à Amazônia Legal Brasileira e análises econômicas e políticas dessas marchas já foram realizadas. Todavia, pesquisas que analisam a memória cultural dos atores desse processo – os migrantes e os atingidos pelas políticas de colonização (neste caso os indígenas Xavante) – ainda são escassas. Buscando auxiliar no preenchimento dessa lacuna, este trabalho se baseia em uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada em uma pequena cidade do Mato Grosso – Nova Xavantina –, tendo como objetivo compreender como a memória da cidade é mobilizada para segregar os Xavante no cenário local. A análise percorreu três eixos – mídia, educação e política – e estes apontam que a memória celebrada e destacada como oficial no município é a do grupo que chegou à região a partir da primeira política de colonização – a Marcha para o Oeste –, mesmo que os indígenas já estivessem no espaço antes. O trabalho mostrou também os meios usados para invisibilizar a memória Xavante em uma cidade que tem em seu nome uma homenagem aos indígenas, mas que lhes nega o protagonismo na história local. / Different colonization policies led migrants to the Brazilian Legal Amazon and economic and political analyses of these marches had already been carried out. However, research that analyzes the cultural memory of the actors in this process - migrants and those affected by colonization policies (in this case the Xavante Indians) - are still scarce. To fill this gap, this work is based on a qualitative research carried out in a small town of Mato Grosso - Nova Xavantina. The purpose is to understand how the memory of the town is mobilized to segregate the Xavante in the local scenario. The investigation covered three axes - media, education and politics - and these point out that the memory celebrated and highlighted as official in the municipality is from the group that arrived in the region in the first policy of colonization - the March to the West -, even though the natives had already been in space before. The research also showed the means used to make the Xavante memory invisible in a town that has in its name a tribute to the Indians, but which denies them the leading role in local history.

O presente trabalho se propõe à análise da obra Sonho interrompido por guilhotina (2006), do escritor mato-grossense Joca Reiners Terron, considerando-a nos jogos críticos realizados por suas narrativas. Para isto, concentra-se nas apropriações dos escritores Valêncio Xavier, José Agrippino de Paula, Glauco Mattoso e Raduan Nassar, que emergem como personagens, tema ou citações ao longo do livro, através de procedimentos que permitem às narrativas que percorram textualmente as suas obras. Tais lances é que são aqui entendidos como poéticas da leitura, configurações estruturais de um tipo de captação crítico-criativa dos objetos, em sintonia com as proposições do teórico Paul Zumthor acerca da imaginação crítica. É fundamental, para a análise de tais mecanismos na obra, a compreensão de cultura tal como encontrada no conceito e campo de estudos da semiosfera, inaugurado pelo semioticista Iuri Lotman, especialmente nos conceitos de memória da cultura e fronteira semiótica. Começando por situar a pesquisa no campo da Comunicação em seu vínculo com a Semiótica da Cultura, em seguida passando à análise da obra de Joca Reiners Terron, o trabalho se encaminha para uma concepção de leitura que ao mesmo tempo é extraída do objeto e replicada na pesquisa. / The present dissertation proposes an analysis of the critical games in Joca Reiners Terrons book Sonho interrompido por guilhotina (2006). The analysis is concentrated on the appropriation of writers Valêncio Xavier, José Agrippino de Paula, Glauco Mattoso and Raduan Nassar, who emerge along the book as characters, subject or by quotations, through procedures which make the stories on the book to textually cross their work. Such strategies are herein understood as poetics of reading, i.e., structural configurations of a kind of critical-creative assimilation of objects, consonant to the propositions of theorist Paul Zumthor on critical imagination. It is fundamental, to the analysis of such strategies along the book, the understanding of culture as found on the concept and field of research of the semiosphere, opened by semiotician Yuri Lotman, especially on its concepts of memory of culture and semiotic boundary. Beginning by inserting the research on the field of Communication studies in its connection to Semiotics of Culture, proceeding with the analysis of Joca Reiners Terrons book, the dissertation turns out to an understanding of reading which is simultaneously extracted from the object and replicated in the research.