Finding Gallipoli by Brad West

Finding Gallipoli by Brad West

Winner of  The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)'s 2024 Stephen Crook Prize for the best authored monograph published within the discipline of Sociology in the previous two years.

This book is about how Australian and Turkish historical understanding of the First World War Gallipoli Campaign has been shaped by travel to the battlefield for the purposes of commemoration. Utilizing a cultural historical method, the study begins with examining how cultural conceptions of travel influenced the experience of those fighting in the 1915 Battle, and ends with the way that new global insecurities and the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan in 2021 is reflecting and influencing Australia and Turkey’s social memory of their military past. This wide historical lens and the author’s original fieldwork and analysis of documents allows for an in-depth exploration of the ways in which cultural patterns of social memory develop over time and mapping of how specific cultural representations in the past are reclaimed.  The book argues that travel is a key factor influencing social change by providing distinctive ritual experiences that afford unique, discursive opportunities and empowering particular carriers and custodians of social memory. 

 

 

Brad West is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of South Australia. He publishes widely on civil military relations, including around themes of commemoration and military to civilian transition. He is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology and has previously held academic posts at the University of Bristol, Flinders University and Kings College London. Amongst his professional duties he is co-President of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory in the International Sociological Association and sits on the advisory editorial boards of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology and Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies. He is the author of Re-enchanting Nationalisms: Rituals and Remembrances in a Postmodern Age (2015, Springer), editor of War Commemoration and Memory (2017, Routledge) and co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Sociology (2016) on War, the Military and Civil Society.
Thomas Crosbie is an Associate Professor of Military Studies and Military Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College. His research is focused on the nexus between domestic political processes and military organization. He has published more than a dozen articles on the related topics of military politics, civil-military relations, military professionalism, military scandal and the privatization of security. He is a chief editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies and co-edited The Sociology of Privatized Security (Palgrave Macmillan).

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ISBN 13	9783030988814
ISBN 10	3030988813
Title	Finding Gallipoli
Author	Brad West
Series	Cultural Sociology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published	2023-04-29
Number of pages	272
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