Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets
Authors: Byrom, J., Light, D., Medway, D., Parker, C. and Zenker, S.
Journal: Annals of Tourism Research
Volume: 105
ISSN: 0160-7383
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103724
Abstract:While souvenirs have generated considerable interest within tourism research, less attention has been paid to their post-holiday ‘afterlife’. Utilising perspectives from memory research and more-than-representational theory, this paper focuses on interactions with a ubiquitous souvenir: the fridge magnet. Drawing on semi-structured interviews we illustrate how, because of their embeddedness within everyday domestic rhythms, magnets are active agents in the stimulation of post-holiday memory work. We show how magnets work to generate and protect memories, triggering a diversity of (usually positive) emotional and affective responses. They can also be associated with ambivalent memories; with their role sometimes being more about forgetting. Although being seemingly banal objects, fridge magnets have a complex capacity to affect everyday life long after a holiday ends.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39409/
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Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets
Authors: Byrom, J., Light, D., Medway, D., Parker, C. and Zenker, S.
Journal: ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH
Volume: 105
eISSN: 1873-7722
ISSN: 0160-7383
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103724
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39409/
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Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets
Authors: Byrom, J., Light, D., Medway, D., Parker, C. and Zenker, S.
Journal: Annals of Tourism Research
Volume: 105
Pages: 1-13
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0160-7383
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103724
Abstract:While souvenirs have generated considerable interest within tourism research, less attention has been paid to their post-holiday ‘afterlife’. Utilising perspectives from memory research and more-than-representational theory, this paper focuses on interactions with a ubiquitous souvenir: the fridge magnet. Drawing on semi-structured interviews we illustrate how, because of their embeddedness within everyday domestic rhythms, magnets are active agents in the stimulation of post-holiday memory work. We show how magnets work to generate and protect memories, triggering a diversity of (usually positive) emotional and affective responses.
They can also be associated with ambivalent memories; with their role sometimes being more about forgetting. Although being seemingly banal objects, fridge magnets have a complex capacity to affect everyday life long after a holiday ends.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39409/
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Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets
Authors: Byrom, J., Light, D., Medway, D., Parker, C. and Zenker, S.
Journal: Annals of Tourism Research
Volume: 105
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0160-7383
Abstract:While souvenirs have generated considerable interest within tourism research, less attention has been paid to their post-holiday ‘afterlife’. Utilising perspectives from memory research and more-than-representational theory, this paper focuses on interactions with a ubiquitous souvenir: the fridge magnet. Drawing on semi-structured interviews we illustrate how, because of their embeddedness within everyday domestic rhythms, magnets are active agents in the stimulation of post-holiday memory work. We show how magnets work to generate and protect memories, triggering a diversity of (usually positive) emotional and affective responses. They can also be associated with ambivalent memories; with their role sometimes being more about forgetting. Although being seemingly banal objects, fridge magnets have a complex capacity to affect everyday life long after a holiday ends.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39409/
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