Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict by Paola Filippucci

Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict by Paola Filippucci

Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but instead active triggers of personal and shared emotion, that are inescapably political, bound up with how societies reconstruct their present and future as they negotiate their way out of (and sometimes back into) conflict. A central aim of the book is to highlight and illustrate the cultural and ethical complexity of memorials, as focal points for a tension between the notion of memory as truth, and the practice of memory as negotiable. By adopting a relatively bounded temporal and spatial scope, the volume seeks to move beyond the established focus on national traditions, to reveal cultural commonalities and shared influences in the memorial forms and practices of individual regions and of particular conflicts.

Marie Louise Stig S�rensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK and Professor of Bronze Age studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Dacia Viejo-Rose is Lecturer in Heritage and the Politics of the Past at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Paola Filippucci is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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ISBN 13	9783030180904
ISBN 10	3030180905
Title	Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict
Author	Dacia Viejorose
Series	Palgrave Studies In Cultural Heritage And Conflict
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published	2020-01-02
Number of pages	312
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