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More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June
1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and
researchers. Receiving well over two million visitors a year, the
Normandy landscape of war is among the most visited cultural sites
in France. This book explores the significant role that heritage
and tourism play in the present day with regard to educating the
public as well as commemorating those who fought. The book examines
the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the
field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day
landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred. In this volume
practitioner authors represent a range of interrelated roles and
responsibilities. These perspectives include national and regional
governments and coordinating agencies involved in policy, planning
and implementation; war cemetery commissions; managers who oversee
particular museums and sites; and individual battlefield tour
guides whose vocation is to research and interpret sites of memory.
Often interviewed as key informants for scholarly articles, the
day-to-day observations, experiences and management decisions of
these guardians of remembrance provide valuable insight into a
range of issues and approaches that inform the meaning of tourism,
remembrance and war heritage as well as implications for the
management of war sites elsewhere. Complementing the Normandy
practitioner offerings, more scholarly investigations provide an
opportunity to compare and debate what is happening in the
management and interpretation at other World War II related sites
of war memory, such as at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Portsmouth, UK.
This innovative volume will be of interest to those interested in
remembrance tourism, war heritage, dark tourism, battlefield
tourism, commemoration, D-Day and World War II.
Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected
by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century,
and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are
well known, far less is understood about how small islands coped.
These islands - often not nations in their own right but small
outposts of other kingdoms, countries, and nations - have been
relegated to mere footnotes in history and heritage studies as
interesting case studies or unimportant curiosities. Yet for many
of these small islands, war had an enduring impact on their
history, memory, intangible heritage and future cultural practices,
leaving a legacy that demanded some form of local response. This is
the first comprehensive volume dedicated to what the memories,
legacies and heritage of war in small islands can teach those who
live outside them, through closely related historical and
contemporary case studies covering 20th and 21st century conflict
across the globe. The volume investigates a number of important
questions: Why and how is war memory so enduring in small islands?
Do factors such as population size, island size, isolation or
geography have any impact? Do close ties of kinship and group
identity enable collective memories to shape identity and its
resulting war-related heritage? This book contributes to heritage
and memory studies and to conflict and historical archaeology by
providing a globally wide-ranging comparative assessment of small
islands and their experiences of war. Heritage of War in Small
Island Territories is of relevance to students, researchers,
heritage and tourism professionals, local governments, and NGOs.
Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that
represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local
community's history, and the ways that government agencies,
heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to
remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely,
choose to forget them. Such episodes and locations include:
massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war,
civil and political prisons, and places of 'benevolent' internment
such as leper colonies and lunatic asylums. These sites bring shame
upon us now for the cruelty and futility of the events that
occurred within them and the ideologies they represented. They are
however increasingly being regarded as 'heritage sites', a far cry
from the view of heritage that prevailed a generation ago when we
were almost entirely concerned with protecting the great and
beautiful creations of the past, reflections of the creative genius
of humanity rather than the reverse - the destructive and cruel
side of history. Why has this shift occurred, and what implications
does it have for professionals practicing in the heritage field? In
what ways is this a 'difficult' heritage to deal with? This volume
brings together academics and practitioners to explore these
questions, covering not only some of the practical matters, but
also the theoretical and conceptual issues, and uses case studies
of historic places, museums and memorials from around the globe,
including the United States, Northern Ireland, Poland, South
Africa, China, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor and
Australia.
Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected
by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century,
and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are
well known, far less is understood about how small islands coped.
These islands - often not nations in their own right but small
outposts of other kingdoms, countries, and nations - have been
relegated to mere footnotes in history and heritage studies as
interesting case studies or unimportant curiosities. Yet for many
of these small islands, war had an enduring impact on their
history, memory, intangible heritage and future cultural practices,
leaving a legacy that demanded some form of local response. This is
the first comprehensive volume dedicated to what the memories,
legacies and heritage of war in small islands can teach those who
live outside them, through closely related historical and
contemporary case studies covering 20th and 21st century conflict
across the globe. The volume investigates a number of important
questions: Why and how is war memory so enduring in small islands?
Do factors such as population size, island size, isolation or
geography have any impact? Do close ties of kinship and group
identity enable collective memories to shape identity and its
resulting war-related heritage? This book contributes to heritage
and memory studies and to conflict and historical archaeology by
providing a globally wide-ranging comparative assessment of small
islands and their experiences of war. Heritage of War in Small
Island Territories is of relevance to students, researchers,
heritage and tourism professionals, local governments, and NGOs.
This volume presents research on policy responses to racism in
sporting codes, predominantly Australian Rules football, in a
global context. While the three guest editors are based in
Australia, and their work pertains to the uniquely domestic game of
Australian Rules football, the outcomes, research vectors and key
issues from this research are part of a much larger on-going
international conversation that is equally relevant when
considering, for instance, racism in English Premier League
football, first class cricket and basketball. The book is an
outcome of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project
titled Assessing the Australian Football League's Racial and
Religious Vilification Laws to Promote Community Harmony,
Multiculturalism and Reconciliation, which investigated social
participation and the impact of the Australian Football League's
anti-racial vilification policy since its introduction in 1995.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
This volume presents research on policy responses to racism in
sporting codes, predominantly Australian Rules football, in a
global context. While the three guest editors are based in
Australia, and their work pertains to the uniquely domestic game of
Australian Rules football, the outcomes, research vectors and key
issues from this research are part of a much larger on-going
international conversation that is equally relevant when
considering, for instance, racism in English Premier League
football, first class cricket and basketball. The book is an
outcome of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project
titled Assessing the Australian Football League's Racial and
Religious Vilification Laws to Promote Community Harmony,
Multiculturalism and Reconciliation, which investigated social
participation and the impact of the Australian Football League's
anti-racial vilification policy since its introduction in 1995.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council
(ARC)-funded project titled Assessing the Australian Football
League's Racial and Religious Vilification Laws to Promote
Community Harmony, Multiculturalism and Reconciliation, which
investigated the impact of the Australian Football League's
anti-vilification policy since its introduction in 1995. With key
stakeholders the Australian Football League, the AFL Players'
Association and the Office of Multicultural Affairs (previously the
Victorian Multicultural Commission), the book gauges the attitudes
and perspectives of players and coaches in the AFL regarding Rule
35, the code's anti-vilification rule. The overarching themes of
multiculturalism, reconciliation and social harmony in the AFL
workplace have been the guiding ideals that we examined and
analysed. The outcomes from the research vectors look at and engage
with key issues about race, diversity and difference as it pertains
to the elite AFL code, but also looks at the ongoing international
conversation as it pertains to these themes in sport. This book was
previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council
(ARC)-funded project titled Assessing the Australian Football
League's Racial and Religious Vilification Laws to Promote
Community Harmony, Multiculturalism and Reconciliation, which
investigated the impact of the Australian Football League's
anti-vilification policy since its introduction in 1995. With key
stakeholders the Australian Football League, the AFL Players'
Association and the Office of Multicultural Affairs (previously the
Victorian Multicultural Commission), the book gauges the attitudes
and perspectives of players and coaches in the AFL regarding Rule
35, the code's anti-vilification rule. The overarching themes of
multiculturalism, reconciliation and social harmony in the AFL
workplace have been the guiding ideals that we examined and
analysed. The outcomes from the research vectors look at and engage
with key issues about race, diversity and difference as it pertains
to the elite AFL code, but also looks at the ongoing international
conversation as it pertains to these themes in sport. This book was
previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June
1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and
researchers. Receiving well over two million visitors a year, the
Normandy landscape of war is among the most visited cultural sites
in France. This book explores the significant role that heritage
and tourism play in the present day with regard to educating the
public as well as commemorating those who fought. The book examines
the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the
field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day
landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred. In this volume
practitioner authors represent a range of interrelated roles and
responsibilities. These perspectives include national and regional
governments and coordinating agencies involved in policy, planning
and implementation; war cemetery commissions; managers who oversee
particular museums and sites; and individual battlefield tour
guides whose vocation is to research and interpret sites of memory.
Often interviewed as key informants for scholarly articles, the
day-to-day observations, experiences and management decisions of
these guardians of remembrance provide valuable insight into a
range of issues and approaches that inform the meaning of tourism,
remembrance and war heritage as well as implications for the
management of war sites elsewhere. Complementing the Normandy
practitioner offerings, more scholarly investigations provide an
opportunity to compare and debate what is happening in the
management and interpretation at other World War II related sites
of war memory, such as at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Portsmouth, UK.
This innovative volume will be of interest to those interested in
remembrance tourism, war heritage, dark tourism, battlefield
tourism, commemoration, D-Day and World War II.
Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an
investigative and analytical study into the way in which
significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined
through events over time to articulate specific narratives and
denote consequence and identity. The book charts the ways in which
a number of landscapes of war have been created and managed from an
events perspective, and how the processes of remembering (along
with silencing and forgetting) at these places has influenced the
management of these warscapes in the present day. With chapters
from authors based in seven different countries on three continents
and comparative case studies, this book has a truly international
perspective. This timely longitudinal analysis of war commemoration
events, the associated landscapes, travel to these destinations and
management strategies will be valuable reading for all those
interested in war landscapes and events.
Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an
investigative and analytical study into the way in which
significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined
through events over time to articulate specific narratives and
denote consequence and identity. The book charts the ways in which
a number of landscapes of war have been created and managed from an
events perspective, and how the processes of remembering (along
with silencing and forgetting) at these places has influenced the
management of these warscapes in the present day. With chapters
from authors based in seven different countries on three continents
and comparative case studies, this book has a truly international
perspective. This timely longitudinal analysis of war commemoration
events, the associated landscapes, travel to these destinations and
management strategies will be valuable reading for all those
interested in war landscapes and events.
Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that
represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local
community's history, and the ways that government agencies,
heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to
remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely,
choose to forget them. Such episodes and locations include:
massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war,
civil and political prisons, and places of 'benevolent' internment
such as leper colonies and lunatic asylums. These sites bring shame
upon us now for the cruelty and futility of the events that
occurred within them and the ideologies they represented. They are
however increasingly being regarded as 'heritage sites', a far cry
from the view of heritage that prevailed a generation ago when we
were almost entirely concerned with protecting the great and
beautiful creations of the past, reflections of the creative genius
of humanity rather than the reverse - the destructive and cruel
side of history. Why has this shift occurred, and what implications
does it have for professionals practicing in the heritage field? In
what ways is this a 'difficult' heritage to deal with? This volume
brings together academics and practitioners to explore these
questions, covering not only some of the practical matters, but
also the theoretical and conceptual issues, and uses case studies
of historic places, museums and memorials from around the globe,
including the United States, Northern Ireland, Poland, South
Africa, China, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor and
Australia.
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