Description
Book SynopsisChildhood Memory Spaces: How Enduring Memories of Childhood Places Shape Our Lives explores the places adults remember from their childhood. More specifically, it examines the questions what kinds of places do we remember? and why do they linger in our memories?. The answers emerge from a variety of sources, including scholarship in cognitive science, environmental psychology, geography, communication, etc., but they are illustrated primarily through the over 100 stories told by adults who still vividly recall the places where key facets of their identity developed. Those stories reveal both that the answers are significantly more complex than one academic perspective can explain and that profoundly personal narratives can highlight their complexity in ways that scientific and social scientific research alone cannot.
This book meets a need to integrate related, yet independent, lines of research in the natural and social sciencesdoing so with a decidedly humani
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Introduction – Foundational Memory Places – Places of Adventure – Places of Sanctuary – Places of Community – Places of Outdoor and Family Connection – Places of Generational Presence – Conclusion – Subject Index – Name Index.
