Experiencing 11 November 2018
In a unique collection of international and interdisciplinary research, this book focuses on commemorative events around the world on the same day: 11 November 2018, the centenary of Armistice Day, the end of the First World War.
It argues that we need to move beyond discourse, narrative and how historical events are represented to fully understand what commemoration does, socially, politically and culturally. Adopting an experiential reframing treats sensory, affective and emotional feelings as fundamental to how we collectively understand shared histories and, through them, shared identities. The volume features 15 case studies from ten countries, covering a variety of settings and national contexts specific to the First World War.
Together the chapters demonstrate that a new conceptualisation of commemoration is needed: one that attends to how it feels.
Shanti Sumartojo is Associate Professor of Design Research and a member of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Names: Sumartojo, Shanti, editor.
Title: Experiencing 11 November 2018 : commemoration and the First World War centenary / edited by Shanti Sumartojo.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020024483 (print) | LCCN 2020024484 (ebook) | ISBN 9781350155312 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003085362 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 19141918Anniversaries, etc.Case studies.
Classification: LCC D663 .E87 2021 (print) | LCC D663 (ebook) | DDC 940.4/6dc23
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Kingsley Baird is a visual artist, writer and Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University, New Zealand. His work investigates memory, memorialisation and remembrance through the design of national memorials such as the New Zealand Memorial in Canberra, Australia (2001, with Studio of Pacific Architecture), the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Wellington, New Zealand (2004) and The Cloak of Peace in Nagasaki, Japan (2006); and through temporary installations in international residencies and solo exhibitions.
Christin Camia conducts research on autobiographical memory, narrative identity and identity development throughout the lifespan. After completing her PhD degree in Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, she worked at New York University Abu Dhabi. Recently, she has been appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology in Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Danielle Drozdzewski is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2017 she was Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw and Berlin Institute of Integration, Humboldt University. Her research examines the intersections of memory, identity and place, especially within the context of commemoration of war and violence. Her recent books include Doing Memory Differently (2019, with Caroline Birdsall) and Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict (2016, with Sarah De Nardi and Emma Waterton).
Clara Falys is a Masters student in psychology at UCLouvain, Belgium. Throughout her internship she worked on collective memory, focusing on the differences between language groups in Belgium, including the differences between French-speaking and German-speaking Belgians regarding the Armistice.
Jeremy Foster trained as an architect, landscape architect and cultural geographer, and is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University, USA. His research projects examine how specific landscapes, of varying scales, designed as well as undesigned, historical and contemporary, are always emergent, produced and reproduced through intersections between representational discourses and material processes. Recent publications appeared in cultural geographies and Geographic Research Forum.
Emma Hanna is a lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Kent, UK. She has published widely on First World War history including contemporary memory, memorialisation, the media and wartime culture. Emma was a co-investigator on two major UK research projects: Gateways to the First World War (AHRC, 20142019) and Reflections on the Centenary of the First World War: Learning & Legacies for the Future (AHRC, 20172020). Her book Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War was published in 2020.
David C. Harvey is Associate Professor in Critical Heritage Studies at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, and an Honorary Professor of Historical Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. His work focuses on the geographies of heritage. Recent works include The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (2015, with Jim Perry) and Commemorative Spaces of the First World War: Historical Geography at the Centenary (2017, with James Wallis).
Anne Hertzog is Assistant Professor in Geography, at CY Cergy-Paris Universit, France. Her research is about First World War heritage in Western Europe; how war memory intervenes in tourism policies and planning, tourism practices and territorial development; and the memorial practices of Chinese and Indian diasporas. Current research on the geography of museums in Palestine explores how heritage intersects with cultural resistance.
Chantal Kesteloot holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Universit libre de Bruxelles. Since 1992, she has been a member of the permanent team of the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CegeSoma), where she currently leads the Public History section. Her recent publications include Bruxelles, la mmoire et la guerre (19142014) (2014, with Laurence van Ypersele and Emmanuel Debruyne) and
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