Commemoration as Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 1-11

3. Landscapes of Commemoration: The Relationship between Memory, Place and Space

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 12-25

4. The Promise of Peace

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 26-37

5. A War by Other Means? Commemorating Conflict in the New Northern Ireland

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 38-59

6. Contested Visions: Memory, Space and Identity in the Basque Country

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 60-80

7. Challenging the Boundaries of the Sri Lankan State: Memory-work and the Battle to Belong

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 81-101

8. An Intractable Conflict and an Irreconcilable Past: Contesting the ‘Other’ through Commemoration in Israel/Palestine

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 102-124

9. Protecting the Past and Shielding the Future: Political Memory in the Former Yugoslavia

   • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

   Pages 125-147

10. ‘Till Jesus Comes Again’: Consolidating Narratives of the Liberation Struggle in Post-apartheid South Africa

    • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

    Pages 148-167

11. Conclusion

    • Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

    Pages 168-178

12. Back Matter

    Pages 179-209

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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.

• Commemoration
• Conflict
• Peace process
• space
• identity
• transitional societies
• divided societies
• Northern Ireland
• Irsael
• Palenstine
• Sri Lanka
• former Yugoslavia
• Basque Country
• South Africa
• Armed conflict
• conflict
• Israel
• landscape
• memory
• Peace
• Peace Process

• University of Ulster, UK

  Sara McDowell, Máire Braniff

Sara McDowell is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Ulster, UK. Her research focuses on the geography of memory and conflict in divided and transitional societies including Northern Ireland, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, Sri Lanka, the former Yugoslavia and the Basque Country. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of commemorative-related violence.

Máire Braniff is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Ulster, UK. Her areas of expertise include conflict resolution, peace mediation and peace agreements. She is the author of Integrating the Balkans: From Conflict to Integration (2011) and co-author of the Democratic Unionist Party: From Power to Protest.

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