Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict : From History to Heritage Paperback / softback
Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Dacia Viejo-Rose, Paola Filippucci
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict series
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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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- Pages:312 pages, 59 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 312 p. 59 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:26/08/2021
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- Pages:312 pages, 59 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 312 p. 59 illus.
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- Publication Date:26/08/2021
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- ISBN:9783030180935