Commemorating War - The Politics of Memory

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years

List of contents

I: Framing the issues; 1: The politics of war memory and commemoration: Contexts, structures and dynamics; II: Case studies; 2: Layers of memories: Twenty years after in Argentina; 3: The South African War/Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 and political memory in South Africa; 4: National narratives, war commemoration and racial exclusion in a settler society: The Australian case; 5: ‘This is where they fought’: Finnish war landscapes as a national heritage; 6: Remembered/replayed: The nation and male subjectivity in the Second World War films Ni Liv (Norway) and The Cruel Sea (Britain); 1: Postmemory cinema: Second-generation Israelis screen the Holocaust in Don’t Touch My Holocaust; 1: Hauntings: Memory, fiction and the Portuguese colonial wars; 9: Longing for war: Nostalgia and Australian returned soldiers after the First World War; 10: Involuntary commemorations: Post-traumatic stress disorder and its relationship to war commemoration; III: Debates and reviews; 1: War commemoration in Western Europe: Changing meanings, divisive loyalties, unheard voices

About the author

Graham Dawson

Summary

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years

Product details

• Authors: Timothy G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson, Dawson Graham, Michael Roper
• Assisted by: Graham Dawson (Editor), Dawson Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138520783
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52078-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, Politics & government, Politics and government, Military engineering