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Twelve area residents were interviewed and the data produced points to various community practices of both remembering and forgetting. I employ Avery Gordon’s (2008) theorization of ghosts and hauntings to make sense of the gaps, silences, and contradictions that populated the interviews. The paper ends with a consideration of Roger Simon’s (2000, 2005) plea for a practice of remembrance that is both ethical and pedagogical.  \nThere is no future without uncanny memorial connections, without responsibilities to memories other than one’s own, to memories you have no responsibility for but to claim you to a memorial kinship. (Roger Simon, 2000, p. 19)  \nMy current research concerns the historic Black pioneer settlement along the Old Durham Road in (the former) Artemesia Townshipi, Grey County, Ontario. Initially my interest in this community stemmed from the fact that my parents bought three 50‐acre lots along this historic road in the1960’s when I was a child. I had grown up with a few scant tales about “escaped Black slaves” who had been given land “by Queen Victoria”. Over the years, I have joined local efforts to reclaim this settler community’s history through doing archival research, editing a local Black history journal, organizing annual teachers’field trips, among other things. Most recently, I have conducted a pilot project consisting of oral history interviews with people who have connections to the Old Durham Road1. This paper stems from this project and is about hauntings. I employ Avery Gordon’s (2008) definition of a haunting as “an animated state in which a repressed or unresolved social violence is making itself known, sometimes directly and sometimes more obliquely”(p. xvi). A haunting usually involves violence, pain or loss and may be populated by “people who are meant to be invisible”(ibid). In this way a haunting is “that which appears to be not there [that] is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken‐for‐ granted realities”(p. 8). A haunting thus marks an absent presence. Reflecting on photographs ofa house in Port Hope, Ontario that document the removal of bricks due to their radioactivity, Roger Simon (2000) notes “the anxiety provoked by the absent presence of those bricks”(p. 14) .  \n1 The research for this paper was funded by a Small SSHRC grant in 2011-2012.  \nNorquay, 2014 Canadian Social Studies, Volume 47, No. 2  \nThe interview data suggests three kinds of hauntings. The first has to do with the gossip and whispered warnings that newcomers to the road were given by local residents about the area’s Black history. Through the gossip, the Black history becomes a “seething presence”(Gordon, 2008, p. 8) that is there, and not there at the same time. The second kind of haunting has to do with the way in which this history is both denied and acknowledged through common place stories about neighbours and childhood friends, and through the persistent use of childhood nicknames. Hauntings persist in these stories because “the trouble they represent and symptomize is no longer contained or repressed or blocked from view”(p. xvi). The third kind of haunting concerns a couple of ghosts who populated the stories oftwo of the people I interviewed. Gordon entices: “the ghost gesticulates, signals, and sometimes mimics the unspeakable as it shines for both the remembered and the forgotten”(p.150) .  \nThe data for this paper comes from interviews I did with twelve residents in the area: 2 descendants of Black settlers, 3 descendants of White settlers and 7 who purchased property on the road or in t","cbCaisb1UaIsnmyh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisb1UaIsnmyh","pdf",170462,13,"English","# Abstract\n## Research focus and background\n## Theoretical framework: ghosts and hauntings\n## Types of hauntings from interview data\n## Sources of the data and historical context","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main research focus?\",\"answer\":\"It examines data from an oral history project about a Black pioneer settlement along the Old Durham Road in Grey County, Ontario, and analyzes how remembering and forgetting appear in residents’ accounts.\"},{\"question\":\"Which theoretical approach guides the interpretation of the interviews?\",\"answer\":\"The paper employs Avery Gordon’s (2008) theorization of ghosts and hauntings to make sense of gaps, silences, and contradictions in the interview data.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of hauntings does the interview data suggest?\",\"answer\":\"The data suggests three kinds: hauntings conveyed through gossip and whispered warnings, hauntings expressed through stories that both deny and acknowledge history, and hauntings involving ghost-like presences in some interview narratives.\"}]","Remembering in a Context of Forgetting: Hauntings and the Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Settlement | PDF",1792085410]