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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Routledge, 2017.
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I attempt in this essay to travel outside of and beyond the more spectacular or established geopolitical discourses associated with research on post-conflict regions, and follow instead the trail of another more essential or everyday history and geography. Listening to and responding to the testimony of a single Yugoslav family, I draw from and write of memories of former places, initially returning to the traumatic moments of 1992, and a journey across Europe. In so doing, I reflect upon the use of testimony in geographical writing, positioning it as an inherently geographical psychoanalytic technique, which not only eases suffering in individuals and communities, but also offers new possibilities for societal change and transitional justice in post-conflict regions.
Author(s): Riding J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Cultural Geography
Year: 2017
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Pages: 250-267
Print publication date: 04/04/2017
Online publication date: 13/10/2016
Acceptance date: 01/08/2016
Date deposited: 25/09/2019
ISSN (print): 0887-3631
ISSN (electronic): 1940-6320
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2016.1237609
DOI: 10.1080/08873631.2016.1237609
Notes: Green open access: included in Tampere University TamPub Repository https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/101143
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