Battlefield events : landscape, commemoration and heritage / edited by Keir Reeves [and 4 others].

ISBN:

9781138900592

Title:

Author:

Reeves, Keir, editor.

Physical Description:

xix, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge advances in event research series.

Contents:

The Unquiet Grave : Exhuming and Reburying the Dead of Fromelles / Bruce Scates -- Maori chivalry during a British defeat : 150 years of remembering Gate Pa / Lloyd Carpenter -- Landscape, Soundscape and Youth : Memorable moments at the 90th Commemoration of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 2007 / Geoffrey Bird -- Comines-Warneton 1914-2014 : a landscape approach / Birger Stichelbaut, Yannick Van Hollebeeke and Jean Bourgeois -- Celebrating peace and commemorating war in the city of Leper / Caroline Winter -- The heritage of "Flanders Fields" : Research, protection, management and commemoration of World War I landscapes in Flanders (Belgium) / Vandael L., Decoodt H., Dewilde M., Geleyns P., Himpe K., Pieters M. and Verboven H. -- Commemorating dissenting voices and stories : The Centenary of the Anti-Conscription Campaign in World War One / Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing and David Cragg -- Once more with feeling : commemorating Royal Air Force Bomber Command in late modern Britain / Damien Williams -- The Ghosts of Changi : Captivity and Pilgramage in Singapore / Kevin Blackburn -- Reading Darwin as a landscape of War / Laura James -- Examining Vanuatu's World War Two Memorial Places and Events / Keir Reeves and Joseph Cheer -- The community museum and the heritage of conflict in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo / Jonathan Sweet, Toyah Horman and Jennifer Rowe -- Negotiating the memories and myths of World War Two civilian suffering in the railways beneath London and Berlin / Samuel Merrill -- Remembering Wars in Vietnam : Commemoration, Memorialization and Heritage Management / William Logan -- Nation-building and the Development Case for Cultural Heritage : Solomon Islands / Julien Barbera -- Commemoration and Interpretation of World War II in Solomon Islands : A Practitioner's Perspective / Rowena Macdonald.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Northern Territory -- Darwin.

Cultural property -- Social aspects.

Added Author:

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxon

Routledge,

2016.

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Keir Reeves holds a chair in Australian History at Federation University Australia, where he is the director for the Collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH). Prior to this he was the director of the Australian and International Tourism Research Unit at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and held teaching and research positions at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Geoffrey R. Bird is Associate Professor at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Laura James works as a researcher in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Birger Stichelbaut is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Historical and Archaeological Aerial Photography - a collaborative initiative between Ghent University, the In Flanders Fields Museum and the Province of West-Flanders - and is engaged with aerial photography, archaeology and the conflict landscape of World War I.

Jean Bourgeois is Professor at Ghent University in Belgium and Head of the Department of Archaeology.