Engaging with the Home-in-ruins: Memory, Temporality and the Unmaking of Home after Fire

Author(s): Scott McKinnon, Christine Eriksen
Journal Title: Social & Cultural Geography
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
Publication Year: 2021

Through a series of oral history interviews with survivors of the 2003 Canberra firestorm in the Australian Capital Territory, CSS’ Christine Eriksen and Scott McKinnon investigate ruined homes as spaces imbued with memory – of the fire itself, of life before the fires, of a once imagined future, and argue that the unmaking of home by fire is a gradual process, in this article for Social & Cultural Geography.

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