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Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict: From History to Heritage

Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict: From History to Heritage

Viejo-Rose, Dacia
Filippucci, Paola
Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

AnthropologyArchaeologyHistoriography

ISBN10: 3030180905
ISBN13: 9783030180904
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 2 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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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