%0 Journal Article
%T Transnational sense of place: cinematic scenes of Finnish war child memories
%A Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen
%J Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
%D 2011
%I Co-Action Publishing
%R 10.3402/jac.v3i0.7178
%X In this article I discuss the role of popular geopolitics and people's performative repertoires in voicing the social silence. I have selected for close-reading some of the episodes of the film Mother of Mine, which tells the story of a Finnish war child. In my analysis I ask what the transnational memory sites of forced displacement are, how they are depicted, and in general what kind of socio-spatial identity struggles they are involved in. Moreover, in this article I argue that the many forms through which silence becomes expressive need to be studied on the scale of the body and daily performative practices. Thus, I conclude that through several daily practices the Finnish war children unconsciously developed transnational agencies in order to survive and re-create the existential social and spatial ties of belonging.
%K sense of place and placelessness
%K performative repertoires
%K silence
%K popular geopolitics
%K film
%K memory studies
%K Finnish war children
%U http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/7178/8528