![]() Almost anyone who has lost a “home,” let alone a homeland, experiences a rupture but for the Pieds-Noirs and other exiles for whom the choice to leave was equivalent to “la valise ou le cercueil” (the suitcase or the coffin), this separation was traumatic. Finally, the paper calls for more empirical research as both adjunct and potential counterweight to its theoretical orientation.įor the former French citizens of Algeria who left their homeland during and after the Algerian War from 1954-1962, Algeria lives on as a sacred location of memory. Its affinities with other forms of collecting, storing and ‘arranging’ matter also demand further attention. It is concluded that hoarding is an ambiguous concept without clear agreement as to its causes, characteristics, scope or significance. Finally, the material nature of the hoard itself will be addressed. ![]() Following this, hoarding as behaviour in relation to the spatial ‘disordering’ of material culture will be examined. Hoarding will be considered in relation to both opportunities for disposition and other types of ‘ambiguous’ stuff including clutter. In particular, the paper considers the phenomena of the domestic hoarding of goods. Here, however, disposition is considered in another sense the relocation of an object without the attendant continuation of the disposal process. However, all disposal involves disposition as a prelude to destruction, reuse, recycling or redistribution of some sort. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Disposition and disposal are intriguing terms for, while they share the same roots, disposition is not usually understood popularly as a synonym of disposal. Finally, the paper calls for more empirical research as both adjunct and potential counterweight to its theoretical orientation. ![]() Disposition and disposal are intriguing terms for, while they share the same roots, disposition is not usually understood popularly as a synonym of disposal. ![]()
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