Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and remembrance of by Danielle Drozdzewski,Sarah De Nardi,Emma Waterton

By Danielle Drozdzewski,Sarah De Nardi,Emma Waterton

This e-book bridges theoretical gaps that exist among the meta-concepts of reminiscence, position and identification by means of positioning its lens at the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of battle and conflict.


This publication examines how assorted publics relate to their wartime histories via engagements with daily collective thoughts, in differing areas. in particular addressing questions of place-making, displacement and identification, contributions shed new mild at the procedures of commemoration of struggle in daily city façades and within generations of households and nationwide groups. Contributions search to explain how we hook up with stories and areas of battle and clash. The spatial and narrative manifestations of makes an attempt to contextualise wartime stories of loss, trauma, clash, victory and pain are refracted in the course of the roles performed by means of emotion and id building within the shaping of post-war remembrances. This ebook deals a multidisciplinary standpoint, with insights from background, reminiscence reviews, social psychology, cultural and concrete geography, to contextualise stories of battle and their ‘use’ through nationwide governments, perpetrators, sufferers and in kin histories.

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