Wallis / Harvey Commemorative Spaces of the First World War

Historical Geographies at the Centenary
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-30925-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Historical Geography

This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical geography. Seeking to move away from military history and memory studies, contributors explore conceptual contributions of geography to analysing the First World War, as well as reflecting upon the imperative for an academic discussion on the War’s centenary. This book explores the War’s impact in more unexpected theatres, blurring the boundary between home and fighting fronts, investigating the experiences of the war among civilians and often over-looked combatants. The book also critically examines the politics of hindsight in the post-war period, and offers an historical geographical account of how the First World War has been memorialised within ‘official’ spaces as well as many of the ‘alternative spaces’ of commemoration that are often overlooked and undervalued.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallis, James

Harvey, David

Harvey, David C.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction James Wallis and David Harvey Section I: Rethinking the Front Line 2. ‘The Missing: Race, Remembrance and the US Commemoration of World War I Mike Heffernan 3. From ‘Centers out there’ to ‘Becoming Places’: Affective Ecologies of the Present in the Western Front Dominion War Memorials Jeremy Foster 4. Congested Terrain: Contested Memories. Visualising the Multiple Spaces of War and Remembrance Paul Gough 5. Frontline Geographies, Spatial Technologies and Mapping First World War Landscapes Keith Lilley, Paul Ell, Catherine Porter, Conor Graham Section II: Conflicted Identities on Fighting Fronts 6. The First World War in Palestine: Biographies and Memoirs of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Men and Women Ruth Kark and Eyal Berelovich 7. Remembering the Anti-War Movement: Contesting the War and Fighting the Class Struggle on Clydeside Paul Griffin 8. The Geographies of Malta in the First World War Ritienne Gauci and John Schembri 9. Asia’s Great War: A Shared Experience Guoqi Xu Section III: ‘Co-memory-ation’/Commemorative Spaces 10. Commemoration and Anzac Nationalisam at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance Shanti Sumartojo 11. In the Shadow of Centenaries: Reflections on Commemorating World War 1 Nuala Johnson 12. Witnessing the Great War in Britain: Alternative Spaces of Remembrance Ross Wilson 13. The Art of War (Display) – The Imperial War Museum’s First World War Galleries, 2014 James Wallis and James Taylor 14. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

James Wallis is currently completing his Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award, which is a partnership between the Geography Department at the University of Exeter and Imperial War Museums, London. He recently had a chapter published in ‘Remembering the First World War’ (Edited by Bart Ziino, Routledge, 2015). This examined the practice of amateur family history in forging new understandings of the First World War, as enabled by the various platforms put in place for the Centenary period.

David Harvey is a Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter (UK) who has worked within the field of heritage studies for a number of years. In particular, his research has contributed to some key heritage debates, including processual understandings of heritage, extending the temporal depth of heritage, the outlining of heritage-landscape relations and the opening up of hidden memories through oral history.