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Remembering Idora Park: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse in an Urban Amusement Park

Sympson, Megan M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460555886

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2016, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
Currently, memorialization and commemoration studies have been largely conducted within the geographical discipline. Drawing on elements of past memorialization studies, this research focuses its attention on the connection between the discourses/narratives created by memorial landscapes and individual memories in relation to Idora Park, a former trolley park in Youngstown, Ohio. Semi-structured interviews and fieldwork at five memorial sites were conducted in order to reveal the discourses associated with each medium. The study utilizes Richard Schein’s framework concerning materialized discourses within a landscape. The thematic data revealed common trends between each site and the individual memories paid tribute to more than simply Idora Park. In addition to remembering this space, these materialized discourses revealed more general ideals that continue to influence society today, on both a local and national level.
Timothy Anderson (Advisor)
Risa Whitson (Committee Member)
Geoff Buckley (Committee Member)
210 p.
American Studies; Geography
Idora Park; discourses materialized; memorial landscapes; individual memories; commemoration geography; urban trolley park

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  • Sympson, M. M. (2016). Remembering Idora Park: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse in an Urban Amusement Park [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460555886

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sympson, Megan. Remembering Idora Park: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse in an Urban Amusement Park. 2016. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460555886.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sympson, Megan. "Remembering Idora Park: Landscape, Memory, and Discourse in an Urban Amusement Park." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460555886

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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