Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict - From History to Heritage (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2019
Editors:	Marie Louise Stig Sorensen • Dacia Viejo-Rose • Paola Filippucci
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-018093-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	3-03-018093-X
Barcode:	9783030180935

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