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Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict

From History to Heritage

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

    1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Dacia Viejo-Rose

    1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  3. Paola Filippucci

    1. Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  • Takes a completely original approach to studying memorials as complex and changeable cultural heritage sites
  • Includes new studies of iconic sites (e.g. Dresden), lesser-known ones (e.g. the Isted Lion), and also considers sites that are being silenced (e.g. the Dudik Memorial Complex), and through that it expands the bases for comparative analysis and debates considerably and in a thoughtful manner
  • Draws on in-depth case studies to provides both specific empirical evidence and analytic reflections that identify common trends and processes

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Memorials and Memorialisation: History, Forms, and Affects

    • Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Dacia Viejo-Rose, Paola Filippucci
    Pages 1-32

  3. Polarised Topography of Rival Memories: The Commemorations of the 11th March 2004 Train Bombings in Madrid

    • Gérôme Truc, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
    Pages 33-60

  4. From Salvation to Struggle: Commemoration, Affect, and Agency in Cyprus

    • Rebecca Bryant, Mete Hatay
    Pages 61-93

  5. Heritagization of the Gulag: A Case Study from the Solovetsky Islands

    • Margaret Comer
    Pages 95-125

  6. Potočari Memorial Center and Commemorations of the Srebrenica Genocide

    • Dzenan Sahovic
    Pages 127-158

  7. Conflicted Memorials and the Need to Look Forward. The Interplay Between Remembering and Forgetting in Mostar and on the Kosovo Field

    • Gustav Wollentz
    Pages 159-182

  8. The Dudik Memorial Complex: Commemoration and Changing Regimes in the Contested City of Vukovar

    • Britt Baillie
    Pages 183-227

  9. From Socialist ‘Memorialkombinat’ to a Place of Learning. The Heidefriedhof Cemetery in Dresden as an Arena for Competing Cultures of Memory

    • Matthias Neutzner
    Pages 229-277

  10. The Isted Lion: From Memorial of War to Monument of Friendship

    • Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Inge Adriansen
    Pages 279-303

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312
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About this book

Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but instead active triggers of personal and shared emotion, that are inescapably political, bound up with how societies reconstruct their present and future as they negotiate their way out of (and sometimes back into) conflict. A central aim of the book is to highlight and illustrate the cultural and ethical complexity of memorials, as focal points for a tension between the notion of memory as truth, and the practice of memory as negotiable. By adopting a relatively bounded temporal and spatial scope, the volume seeks to move beyond the established focus on national traditions, to reveal cultural commonalities and shared influences in the memorial forms and practices of individual regions and of particular conflicts.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Dacia Viejo-Rose

  • Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Paola Filippucci

About the editors

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK and Professor of Bronze Age studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands.


Dacia Viejo-Rose is Lecturer in Heritage and the Politics of the Past at the University of Cambridge, UK.


Paola Filippucci is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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