Commemoration as Conflict [electronic resource] : Space, Memory and Identity in Peace Processes /
McDowell, S.author.
Braniff, M.author.
McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 2 Landscapes of Commemoration: The Relationship between Memory, Place and Space; 3 The Promise of Peace; 4 A War by Other Means? Commemorating Conflict in the New Northern Ireland; 5 Contested Visions: Memory, Space and Identity in the Basque Country; 6 Challenging the Boundaries of the Sri Lankan State: Memory-work and the Battle to Belong; 7 An Intractable Conflict and an Irreconcilable Past: Contesting the 'Other' through Commemoration in Israel/Palestine
8 Protecting the Past and Shielding the Future: Political Memory in the Former Yugoslavia9 'Till Jesus Comes Again': Consolidating Narratives of the Liberation Struggle in Post-apartheid South Africa; 10 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change.
Peace.
Historiography.
Political science.
Geography.
Human geography.
Sociology.
Conflict Studies.
Memory Studies.
Political Science.
Geography, general.
Human Geography.
Sociology, general.