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Forgetting and the memory of forgetting: The material and symbolic role of memory in the intersubjective lives of people with AIDS dementia

dc.contributor.author Kelly, Angela en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T15:13:22Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T15:13:22Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.description.abstract In death-driven narratives of AIDS, phenomenological losses experienced as a result of changes to memory with AIDS dementia remain uncharted. Traditionally in the field of dementia, memory has been viewed as a neurological skill to be measured and charted, categorized into short-term or long-term memory loss. In this article, a relationship-based approach to memory is taken where memory is understood to play an important material and symbolic role in the lives of people with AIDS dementia and their relationships with significant others. Through ethnographic description, this article details how for two informants ¿ Diane and Andrew ¿ forgetting and the memory of forgetting was central to how they made sense of who they were in relationship to others and others in relationship to them. For them, memory was more than an individual cerebral activity. Memory, and loss of memory, was instrumental to intersubjective life and formed part of a social space of living loss, characterized by liminality. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1471-3012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44221
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other autoethnography en_US
dc.subject.other dementia en_US
dc.subject.other HIV en_US
dc.subject.other loss en_US
dc.subject.other memory loss en_US
dc.subject.other relationship-based approach en_US
dc.title Forgetting and the memory of forgetting: The material and symbolic role of memory in the intersubjective lives of people with AIDS dementia en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 4 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 451-460 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 7 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Kelly, Angela, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Centre for Social Research in Health *
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