Drozdzewski / De Nardi / Waterton Memory, Place and Identity

Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-41134-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory, place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict.

This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through engagements with everyday collective memories, in differing places. Specifically addressing questions of place-making, displacement and identity, contributions shed new light on the processes of commemoration of war in everyday urban façades and within generations of families and national communities. Contributions seek to clarify how we connect with memories and places of war and conflict. The spatial and narrative manifestations of attempts to contextualise wartime memories of loss, trauma, conflict, victory and suffering are refracted through the roles played by emotion and identity construction in the shaping of post-war remembrances. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, social psychology, cultural and urban geography, to contextualise memories of war and their ‘use’ by national governments, perpetrators, victims and in family histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drozdzewski, Danielle

De Nardi, Sarah

Waterton, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Significance of Memory in the Present

Danielle Drozdzewski, Sarah De Nardi, Emma Waterton

Part I: Placing Memory in Public

2. Encountering Memory in the Everyday City

Danielle Drozdzewski

3. Personal Reflections on Formal Second World War Memorials in Everyday Spaces in Singapore

Hamzah Muzaini

4. Multiple and Contested Geographies of Memory: Remembering the 1989 Romanian ‘Revolution’

Duncan Light and Craig Young

5. Wrecks to Relics Sha’ar HaGai, Israel: Battle Remains and the Formation of a Battlescape

Moaz Azaryahu

Part II: Narrative Memorial Practices: Storytelling and Materiality

6. Who were the Enemies? The Spatial Practices of Belonging and Exclusion in Second World War Italy

Sarah De Nardi

7. Sound Memory: A Critical Concept for Researching Past Wartime Experiences.

Carolyn Birdsall

8. Heralding Jericho: Narratives of Remembrance, Reclamation and Republican Identity in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Lia Dong Shimada

9. In the Shadow of Centenaries: Irish Artists go to War 1914-1918.

Nuala C. Johnson

Part III: Commemorative Rituals of Remembering in Place

10. Embodied Memory at the Australian War Memorial.

Jason Dittmer and Emma Waterton

11. Affective Atmospheres

Shanti Sumartojo and Quentin Stevens

12. Beyond Sentimentality and Glorification: Using a History of Emotions to Deal with the Horror of War.

Andrea Witcomb

13. Witnessing and Affect: Altering, Imagining and Making New Spaces to Remember the Great War in Modern Britain.

Ross Wilson

14. Places of Memory and Mourning in Nazi Germany.

Joshua Hagen

Über Autor(innen)

Danielle Drozdzewski is a Human Geographer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Sarah De Nardi is Research Associate in Cultural Geography at the University of Durham, UK.

Emma Waterton is Associate Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at University of Western Sydney, Australia.