Ephemerality in personal memory travel : encountering the changing environment

Trdina, Andreja (author), Pušnik, Maruša (author)

This article approaches personal memory travels with the aim of investigating people’s encounters with the changing environment in relation to time. It centers on the intra-actions with perceptual ephemera as immaterial non-solid entities to argue that our relational reality is a cyclical, dis-continuous process of past and present encounters. The study is grounded in the post-humanist performativity approach and based on personal life histories of memory trips gathered in Slovenia with the help of in-depth interviews and photo-elicitation. Findings suggest that travelers’ engagements with ephemera at site illustrate complex entanglements between human and other (immaterial) entities as co-constituted in time and from within time, provoking the production of situated and temporally sensitive knowledge about the more-than-human world. The article endorses the significance of memory work and human engagements with absences and resonances, both allusions to other (past) contexts, as fundamental for cultivating post-anthropocentric attitudes and advancing the habit of timefulness.

• Language: English
• Keywords: personal memory travel, encounters, environment, ephemera, absence, anthropocene, memory, time, travel
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1129–1148
• Numbering: Vol. 46, no. 8
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164061
• UDC: 159.953.3
• ISSN on article: 0149-0400
• DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2023.2269569
• COBISS.SI-ID: 176502019
• Publication date in RUL: 16.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Leisure sciences
• Shortened title: Leis. sci.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 0149-0400
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25860864

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