Experiencing 11 November 2018

Commemoration and the First World War Centenary
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-350-15531-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sumartojo, Shanti

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Reframing commemoration at the end of the First World War centenary: new approaches and case studies

Shanti Sumartojo

PART I: Cities

- 11 November 2018: Liège, Mons and Brussels commemorate the Great War

Chantal Kesteloot and Laurence van Ypersele

- 2018 Armistice Day in Flanders Fields: how complex is commemoration at the end of an era?

Dominique Vanneste and Gregory Ramshaw

- Vienna, November 7-10, 2018: A four-day journey into public commemorations of November 1918 in the Austrian republic

Olivier Luminet

- The role of a politics of memory and the digital, in reframing the commemoration of Polish Independence

Danielle Drozdzewski

PART II: Sites

- Remembrance, participation, (re)emergence: Washington’s National Cathedral, 11 November 2018

Jeremy Foster

- Pozières: The never-ending war on the Somme

Caroline Winter

- The sound of the cow: observing Remembrance Day in New Delhi

Peter Stanley

9.Observing Silence: Experiential Reflections on the 11 November 2018 Armistice Day Commemorations in London

James Wallis

Part III: Art

- Pages of the Sea: A UK Case Study

Emma Hanna

- Memorial Chairs and Transitory Fictive Kinship in the Centenary Commemoration of the End of the First World War

Kingsley Baird

12 Flowers of War: 11 November 2018 at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance

Shanti Sumartojo

- Just like being there: technologies of reconstructed experience and First World War commemoration

Katherine Smits

Part IV: Multiplicities

- To be or not to be Danish? Commemorating the First World War in Denmark on 11 November 2018

David C. Harvey

- The 10 November 2018 Indian commemoration in Villers-Guislains in the north of France: Atmosphere and the experience of alterity

Anne Hertzog and Rafiq Pirzada

- What is still known about 11 November 1918 by German-speaking Belgians?

Christin Camia, Clara Falys, Jelena Scheider and Olivier Luminet

Über Autor(innen)

Shanti Sumartojo is Associate Professor of Design Research and a member of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.