
Contested Spaces
Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 15. June 2007
Book
Hardback
XXI, 258 pages
978-0-230-01336-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Raises important questions about the materiality of place as expressed through memory, interpretation, representation, narrative and preservation. In looking at physical and psychological landscapes shaped by violence, this book is never glib: contradictions are intelligently drawn out and sensitively discussed.' - Museums Journal
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Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XXI, 258 p.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-01336-0 (9780230013360)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Louise Purbrick | Jim Aulich | Graham Dawson
Contested Spaces
Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€117.69
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Persons
MICHAEL DEAR Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA
SEAN FIELD Centre for Popular Memory and the Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
PATRICK HAGOPIAN Lecturer in American Studies, Lancaster University
JACQUELINE HOLZER Doctoral student in the Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA
GERD KNISCHEWSKI Senior Lecturer in German Politics, University of Portsmouth, UK
DEBBIE LISLE School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, UK
CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, the University of Ulster, UK
TONY POLLARD Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK
WENDY PULLAN Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of
Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK
PETER READ Deputy Director of National Centre for Indigenous Studies, the Australian National University
ULLA SPITTLER Principal Lecturer in German, University of Brighton, UK
HAIFA ZANGANA Painter, writer and author of Through the Vast Halls of Memory
Content
Foreword; H.Zangana Abu Ghraib and the state of America: defining images; P.Hagopian Contested Mobilities and the Spatial Topography of Jerusalem; W.Pullan Altered States: The US-Mexico Borderlands as 'Third Nation'; M.Dear & J.Holzer Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconcilation; D.Lisle Burying the Hatchet? The Post-Combat Appropriation of Battlefield Spaces; T.Pollard 'The Truth that Will Set Us All Free': An Uncertain History of Memorials to Indigenous Australians; P.Read Competing Pasts: A Comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic Remembrance in two Berlin Memorial Sites; G.Knischewski & U.Spittler Memory, What's it Good For? Forced Labour, Blockhouses and Museums in Pas de Calais, Northern France; J.Aulich 'No-one Has Allowed Me to Cry': Trauma, Memorialization and Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda; S.Field 'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh Maze; C.McLaughlin