Overview
- Takes a completely original approach to studying memorials as complex and changeable cultural heritage sites
- Includes new studies of iconic sites (e.g. Dresden), lesser-known ones (e.g. the Isted Lion), and also considers sites that are being silenced (e.g. the Dudik Memorial Complex), and through that it expands the bases for comparative analysis and debates considerably and in a thoughtful manner
- Draws on in-depth case studies to provides both specific empirical evidence and analytic reflections that identify common trends and processes
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK and Professor of Bronze Age studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Dacia Viejo-Rose is Lecturer in Heritage and the Politics of the Past at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Paola Filippucci is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Dacia Viejo-Rose is Lecturer in Heritage and the Politics of the Past at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Paola Filippucci is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict
Book Subtitle: From History to Heritage
Editors: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Dacia Viejo-Rose, Paola Filippucci
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18091-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18090-4Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18093-5Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18091-1Published: 13 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 312
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Cultural Anthropology, Memory Studies, Social Anthropology, Archaeology