War memory and commemoration
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War memory and commemoration
(Memory studies: global constellations / series editor: Henri Lustiger-Thaler)
Routledge, 2017
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism.
This book examines such remembrances and the political consequences of these rites. In particular, the volume focuses on the ways in which recent social and technological forces, including digital archiving, transnational flows of historical knowledge, shifts in academic practice, changes in commemorative forms and consumerist engagements with history affect the shaping of new collective memories and our understanding of the social world.
Presenting studies of commemorative practices from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East, War Memory and Commemoration illustrates the power of new commemorative forms to shape the world, and highlights the ways in which social actors use them in promoting a range of understandings of the past. The volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, history, cultural studies and journalism with an interest in commemoration, heritage and/or collective memory.
Table of Contents
1. War Commemoration and the Expansion of the Past
Part 1: War Travels
2. 'It was like swimming through history": Tourist Moments at Gallipoli
3. Western Tourism and Dialogical Remembering of the American War in Vietnam
4. Battlefield Tourism in Singapore: National Narratives and the State
Part 2: Commemoration and Eventness
5. Dawn Servers: Anzac Day 2015 and Hyper-Connective Commemoration
6. The Gallipoli Centenary: An International Perspective
7. 100 Days of Butchering: (Re)Presenting the Rwandan Genocide 20 Years On
8. Journalists and War Commemoration: Outlining Alternative Practices
Part 3: Genre and the Re-writing of War
9. Unconstrained by Accuracy: Commemorating the Khan Younis Massacre through a Comic
10. Broadening the Cultural Memory of War: Travel Writing
11. Reporting WWII North Africa: Disrupting Colonialism and Orientalism in Moorehead's The Desert War
12. Anniversaries and Production of Fiction: Gallipoli
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