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Contested spaces : sites, representations and histories of conflict

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  • Contributor: Aulich, James; Dawson, Graham; Purbrick, Louise
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    2014
    Summary:

    Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally significant sites and how they are inhabited, represented, witnessed and visited.

    Contents:
    • Foreword: Abu Ghraib: Prison as a Collective Memory / Haifa Zangana Introduction: Sites, Representations, Histories / Louise Purbrick Pt. I. Representations and the 'War on Terror' 1. Abu Ghraib Photographs and the State of America: Defining Images / Patrick Hagopian Pt. II. Dividing Lines 2. Contested Mobilities and the Spatial Topography of Jerusalem / Wendy Pullan 3. Altered States: the US-Mexico Borderlands as 'Third Nation' / Michael Dear and Jacqueline Holzer 4. Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconciliation in Cyprus / Debbie Lisle Pt. III. Layers of History 5. Burying the Hatchet? The Post-combat Appropriation of Battlefield Spaces / Tony Pollard 6. 'The Truth That Will Set Us All Free': an Uncertain History of Memorials to Indigenous Australians / Peter Read 7. Competing Pasts: a Comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic Remembrance in Two Berlin Memorial Sites / Gerd Knischewski and Ulla Spittler Pt. IV. Return Journeys 8. Memory, What is it Good For? Forced Labour, Blockhouses and Museums in Nord-Pas de Calais, Northern France / Jim Aulich 9. 'No one has allowed me to cry': Trauma, Memorialization and Children in Post-genocide Rwanda / Sean Field 10. 'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh/Maze / Cahal McLaughlin.
    Genre:
    Social science, War and military, History and geography
    Subject(s): Collective memory | Historic sites | War and society
    Original Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
    Language(s): English