Mémoire des lieux et lien social à Dodworth

Abstract

Based on fieldwork in the north of England with older residents of a former coal mining village, the author examines the work of memory and its complex interactions with place, social relations and social rupture. Emerging from this research is the embeddedness of local knowledge and social relations in localplaces, a phenomenon she explores in terms of what she calls a « three-dimensionality of memory ». Based on fieldwork in the north of England with older residents of a former coalmining village, the author examines the work of memory and its complexinteractions with place, social relations and social rupture. Emerging from this research is the embeddedness of local knowledge and social relations in local places, a phenomenon she explores in terms of what she calls a « three-dimensionality of memory ». Based on fieldwork in the north of England with older residents of a former coal mining village, the author examines the work of memory and its complex interactions with place, social relations and social rupture. Emerging from this research is the embeddedness of local knowledge and social relations in local places, a phenomenon she explores in terms of what she calls a « three-dimensionality of memory ». © Presses Universitaires de France.