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Definitions
Territory and Memory
Territory: an area Memory: the act of Key words cultural
Key words owned or under the recalling a fact, event, heritage, nostalgia,
neighbourhood, control of a person or a impression, time or feeling awareness,
border, border, group of people. from one’s past. remembrance

Questions to explore
15. Good Ol’ Days
Key words
Generation X, Y
and Z, What is it about 80s and 90s
retromania, nostalgia?
generation gap,
escapism
Younger generations are inspired
by and connected to their
+ + mistakes to avoid repeating
parents’ universe, thus bridging
the generation gap.
Some millennials are envious and
believe that their parents were
- better off, so they tend to use - removed from their
digital technologies to travel
down nostalgia lane.
16. Remember and Remind
Key words
Trail of Tears,
How does our collective removal,
memory work? asylum-
seekers,
settlement
We must learn from our past
them.
We should never forget the
way Native Americans were
territories and the shame it
casts on modern society.

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Other themes to explore when talking about Territory and Memory

Key words Collective memory: a social

Landmarks: buildings or Key words
monument, group’s shared pool of memories,
features which have historical commemorations,
national knowledge and information
or social importance. remembrance
symbol associated with its cultural identity.
Key words
Cultural heritage: ways of
physical
life developed by a community
artefacts,
and passed on from
shared
generation to generation.
culture

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