Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 [Review Essay] Position Doubtful: Mapping Landscapes and Memories
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'In Position Doubtful Kim Mahood, a Canberra-based visual artist and teacher, describes how since 2004 she has travelled each year to spend time in Mulan, a Walmajarri community in Western Australia, close to the Mongrel Downs station where she spent her childhood, and which has since been returned to the traditional owners. An intensely personal memoir, she describes how she grew up between two cultures. Her interest lies in exploring ‘what happens when the unconscious mind experiences a fundamental displacement … when the body feels an almost cellular affinity to a place that has been constructed by a different cultural imagination’ (p. 296). The result is a book that is fascinating on many levels, but is particularly valuable for the insights it brings to themes relevant to those working in archives and memory institutions – issues such as identity, memory, the meaning and interpretation of records (maps in particular), the importance of place, and cross-cultural relations.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Archives and Manuscripts vol. 45 no. 3 2017 12212120 2017 periodical issue

    'This issue of Archives and Manuscripts, centred on the theme of radical recordkeeping, was designed with two aims in mind. The first was to present a selection of papers that suggest the creativity, range, and breadth of current conversations in archival scholarship and practice, and that are also linked to radical departures in thinking, in content, and in approach. The second was to connect Australian recordkeeping, past and present, with the growing, diverse scholarship and practice that continues to evolve around records, challenges, and radical solutions.' (Introduction)

    2017
    pg. 261-262
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