Alp
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Lecturer |
| Location | London |
| Introduction | Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind. |
| Favorite books | Some relevant books: Rigby, Andrew, 1974. Communes in Britain (Routledge) Partridge, William, 1973. The Hippie Ghetto: The natural history of a subculture (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) Morrison, Blake, 1998. And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta) Joyce, James, 1997. Anna Livia Plurabelle (Faber) Guest, Tim, 2004. My Life in Orange (Granta) Eggars, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Freud, Esther Hideous Kinky Burroughs, Augustine, 2004. Running With Scissors: A Memoir (Atlantic Books) Anderson, Linda, 2001. Autobiography: The New Critical Idiom (London: Routledge) |