Research Paper
Containing marginal memories: the melancholy landscapes of Hart Island (New York), Cockatoo Island (Sydney), and Ripapa Island (Christchurch)
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- Title
- Containing marginal memories: the melancholy landscapes of Hart Island (New York), Cockatoo Island (Sydney), and Ripapa Island (Christchurch)
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Contained within tight geographical margins, islands are places where memories are intensified and heightened. The antithesis of the dreamy palm-covered paradises of travel brochures are the urban islands that lurk in blind spots, dark and brooding. Spatially and socially marginalised, such islands become memorials to the shadowy dimensions of civilisation: prisons, landfills, military bases, lunatic asylums, and cemeteries. Hart Island, Cockatoo Island, and Ripapa Island are liminal zones at...
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- Research Paper
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- Journal article
- Date created
- 2011
- Creator
- Bowring, Jacqueline
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10182/5697
- Related subjects
- heritage / liminality / forts / prisons / cemeteries / memory / melancholy / Applied and developmental psychology / Cognitive and computational psychology
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