War Memory and Commemoration

Brad West (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-5511-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Brad West is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. He is the author of Re-enchanting Nationalisms: Rituals and Remembrances in a Postmodern Age (2015).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4724-5511-8 / 1472455118
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-5511-6 / 9781472455116
Zustand	Neuware