Overview

Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally significant sites and how they are inhabited, represented, witnessed and visited.

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Author:   L. Purbrick ,  J. Aulich ,  G. Dawson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780230013360

ISBN 10:   0230013368
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   15 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword; H.Zangana Abu Ghraib and the state of America: defining images; P.Hagopian Contested Mobilities and the Spatial Topography of Jerusalem; W.Pullan Altered States: The US-Mexico Borderlands as 'Third Nation'; M.Dear & J.Holzer Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconcilation; D.Lisle Burying the Hatchet? The Post-Combat Appropriation of Battlefield Spaces; T.Pollard 'The Truth that Will Set Us All Free': An Uncertain History of Memorials to Indigenous Australians; P.Read Competing Pasts: A Comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic Remembrance in two Berlin Memorial Sites; G.Knischewski & U.Spittler Memory, What's it Good For? Forced Labour, Blockhouses and Museums in Pas de Calais, Northern France; J.Aulich 'No-one Has Allowed Me to Cry': Trauma, Memorialization and Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda; S.Field 'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh Maze; C.McLaughlin

Reviews

'Raises important questions about the materiality of place as expressed through memory, interpretation, representation, narrative and preservation. In looking at physical and psychological landscapes shaped by violence, this book is never glib: contradictions are intelligently drawn out and sensitively discussed.' - Museums Journal

Author Information

LOUISE PURBRICK is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK. She is author of The Architecture of Containment in D. Wylie, The Maze (Granta, 2004) and, with John Schofield and Axel Klausmeier, editor of Re-Mapping the Field: New Approaches to Conflict Archaeology (Westkreuz-Verlag, 2006). She also works on the material culture of everyday life and has written The Wedding Present: Domestic Life beyond Consumption (Ashgate, 2007) JIM AULICH is Reader in Visual Culture and is based in Manchester Institute of Research in Art and

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