War Memory and Commemoration / Edition 1

by Brad West

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367362997
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Series:	Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

Notes on contributors viii

Acknowledgements xi

1 War commemoration and the expansion of the past Brad West 1

Part I War travels 15

2 "It was like swimming through history": tourist moments at Gallipoli Jim McKay Serhat Harman 17

3 Western tourism and dialogical remembering of the American War in Vietnam Brad West 37

4 Battlefield tourism in Singapore: national narratives and the state Kevin Blackburn 53

Part II Commemoration and eventness 67

5 Dawn servers: Anzac Day 2015 and hyperconnective commemoration Tom Sear 69

6 The Gallipoli centenary: an international perspective Jenny Macleod 89

7 100 days of butchering: (re)presenting the Rwandan genocide 20 years on Katrina Jaworski 107

8 Journalists and reporting war commemoration: outlining alternative practices Sharon Mascall-Dare 129

Part III Genre and the re-writing of war 147

9 Unconstrained by accuracy: commemorating the Khan Younis massacre through a comic Jeanne-Marie Viljoen 149

10 Broadening the cultural memory of war: a study of travel writing in conflict Ben Stubbs 161

11 Reporting WWII North Africa: disrupting colonialism and orientalism in Moorehead's The Desert War Peter Bishop 173

12 Anniversaries and production of fiction: Gallipoli Azer Banu Kemaloglu 189

Index 200