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Moving through Time and Space: Performing Bodies in Derry, Northern Ireland
Author(s) -
CONWAY BRIAN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2007.00302.x
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , context (archaeology) , politics , scope (computer science) , space (punctuation) , history , point (geometry) , sociology , aesthetics , art , epistemology , law , political science , archaeology , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , geometry , programming language , mathematics
This paper examines the embodied remembrance of Bloody Sunday (1972), when thirteen civilians were shot dead by British soldiers while peacefully marching against internment. The work of Paul Connerton represents a crucial analytical starting point in a growing number of studies examining the body as site of memory. While Connnerton's theorisation has been very influential and persuasive, I argue that there is some scope for improving his ideas about the changeability of bodily memory and the Bloody Sunday case represents an interesting empirical example of how embodied remembrance reflects and responds to transformations in the wider socio‐political context.