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Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets

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  • Byrom, John
  • Light, Duncan
  • Medway, Dominic
  • Parker, Cathy
  • Zenker, Sebastian

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While souvenirs have generated considerable interest within tourism research, less attention has been paid to their post-holiday ‘afterlife’. Utilising perspectives from memory research and more-than-representational theory, this paper focuses on interactions with a ubiquitous souvenir: the fridge magnet. Drawing on semi-structured interviews we illustrate how, because of their embeddedness within everyday domestic rhythms, magnets are active agents in the stimulation of post-holiday memory work. We show how magnets work to generate and protect memories, triggering a diversity of (usually positive) emotional and affective responses. They can also be associated with ambivalent memories; with their role sometimes being more about forgetting. Although being seemingly banal objects, fridge magnets have a complex capacity to affect everyday life long after a holiday ends.

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  • Byrom, John & Light, Duncan & Medway, Dominic & Parker, Cathy & Zenker, Sebastian, 2024. "Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:105:y:2024:i:c:s016073832400001x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103724
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