Memorials in the aftermath of armed conflict : from history to heritage
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Memorials in the aftermath of armed conflict : from history to heritage
（Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict / series editors, Ihab Saloul, Rob van de Laarse, and Britt Baillie）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but instead active triggers of personal and shared emotion, that are inescapably political, bound up with how societies reconstruct their present and future as they negotiate their way out of (and sometimes back into) conflict. A central aim of the book is to highlight and illustrate the cultural and ethical complexity of memorials, as focal points for a tension between the notion of memory as truth, and the practice of memory as negotiable. By adopting a relatively bounded temporal and spatial scope, the volume seeks to move beyond the established focus on national traditions, to reveal cultural commonalities and shared influences in the memorial forms and practices of individual regions and of particular conflicts.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction. Memorials and memorialisation - history, forms and affects
- Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Dacia Viejo Rose2. Commemorations of the Madrid train bombings of 11 March 2004: Grassroots Memorials, Official Memorials and Conflictive Performances
- Cristina Sanchez-Carretero and Gerome Truc3. Myths of Salvation and Struggle: Contesting a Secular Pilgrimage in Cyprus
- Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay4. Heritagization of the Gulag: A Case Study from the Solovetsky Islands
- Margaret Comer5. Srebrenica Memorial Centre and Commemorative Practices
- Dzenan Sahovic6. Conflicted memorials and the need to look forward. The interplay between remembering and forgetting in Mostar and on the Kosovo Field
- Gustav Wollentz7. The Dudik Memorial Complex: Commemoration and Changing Regimes in the Contested City of Vukovar
- Britt Baillie8. From'memorial combine' to a 'place of learning'. The Heidefriedhof cemetery in Dresden as an arena for competing cultures of memory
- Matthias Neutzner9. The Isted Lion - from memorial of war to monument of friendship
- Inge Adriansen
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