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Places of the Heart: Memorials, Public History and the State in Australia Since 1960 [PDF]
Public History Review, 2008 Memorials as a form of public history allow us to chart the complex interactions and negotiations between officially endorsed historical narratives, public memorials, privately sponsored memorials in public spaces and new histories. As Ludmilla Jordanova
Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton
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Memory, Meaning, and Monuments: An Ethnographic Study of Tsunami Memorialization in Aceh [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, left an impact on Aceh, Indonesia, prompting the establishment of tsunami memorials to preserve collective memories.
Rahman Alfi +7 more
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Categorical Mistakes: Antifascism in Public Discourse and Transnational Biography
Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2021 This essay examines some of the recent tendencies to delegitimize antifascism both as a political phenomenon and as a topic of historical research. In German academia and beyond, this “antiantifascist” current operates according to notions of communist ...
Markus Wegewitz
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If these stones could speak: War memorials and contested memory
Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2021 This article explores how war memorials engage with the contested nature of public sculpture and commemoration across historical, political, aesthetic and social contexts.
Martin Kerby +3 more
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Aisthesis, 2022 What is the nature of memorials? Traditionally, memorials have been conceptualized as lasting entities preserving memories of our shared pasts. This paper challenges this view.
Andrea Baldini
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‘Splendid patriotism and heroic self-sacrifice’: First World War memorials in Welsh metalworks
Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2021 Much of the academic attention on issues of Great War mourning and commemoration has focussed on the civic memorials, particularly given that they are designed to be public, visible reminders of the local community’s contribution to the war effort.
Gethin Matthews
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From Proposal to Policy: China's Translation Policymaking in the 1860s
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2022 Although much scholarly attention has been focused on the nature and purpose of translation policy, where and how such policy came into being has rarely been specified.
Linghui Zhu, Reine Meylaerts
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Conflict and the Australian commemorative landscape
Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2021 Australian war memorials have changed over time to reflect community sentiments and altered expectations for how a memorial should look and what it should commemorate.
Alison Bedford +3 more
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Remembering and Forgetting Wars: Memorialization of the Global War on Terrorism in the US
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2023 This paper offers an insight into the efforts made by war memorial organizations to remember those who served in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and how the war is manifested in US cultural memory.
Kristina Seefeldt
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Evolution of Commemorative Landscapes: An Analysis of Gallipoli Historical Site's Memorial Places
Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2023 This study examines the development of memorial sites on the Gallipoli Historical Site, investigating the complex relationship between historical events, architectural structures, and landscape design.
Necla Ece Öncül
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