General Information

Language

English.

Published

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Physical Description

xxi, 258 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Purbrick, Louise.

Aulich, James.

Dawson, Graham, 1956-

Subjects

Subject

War and society.

Historic sites > Psychological aspects.

Collective memory.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Louise Purbrick, Jim Aulich and Graham Dawson.

Content

Introduction: sites, representations, histories / Louise Purbrick -- The Abu Ghraib photographs and the state of America: defining images / Patrick Hagopian -- Contested mobilities and the spatial topography of Jerusalem / Wendy Pullan -- Altered states: the US-Mexico borderlands as 'third nation' / Michael Dear and Jacqueline Holzer -- Encounters with partition: tourism and reconciliation in Cyprus / Debbie Lisle -- Burying the hatchet? The post-combat appropriation of battlefield spaces / Tony Pollard -- 'The truth that will set us all free': an uncertain history of memorials to indigenous Australians / Peter Read -- Competing pasts: a comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic remembrance in two Berlin memorial sites / Gerd Knischewski and Ulla Spittler -- Memory, what is it good for? Forced labor, blockhouses and museums in Nord-Pas de Calais, Northern France / Jim Aulich -- 'No one has allowed me to cry': trauma, memorialization and children in post-genocide Rwanda / Sean Field -- 'Under the same roof': separate stories of Long Kesh/Maze / Cahal McLaughlin.

Available in another form

Online version: Contested spaces. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (OCoLC)654858630

ISBN

9780230013360

0230013368

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	303.609 PUR		Reference	-

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