Chapter 7. The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural Work (original) (raw)

'remembering me' memorialisation 2 , displaying the Self or an inclusive heritage process. 3 It responds to Marianne Hirsch's call for a 'shift in attention and methodology' in memory studies 'outside official structures of commemoration.' 4 Bodies, places, sites and memories become together and while this may assume a materiality, a representation (statue, memorial, artefact) over which one has rights, custodianship and ownership it also follows that it is immaterial, open and shared. As Merrill et al (2020) have argued 'the more or less digital' elements of the 'commemorative public atmospheres' combine or create assemblages. 5 Memories composed of a combination of 'more or less digital' elements, mean that the cultural work and creative labour of social memory technology has become more visible and