Contested Spaces Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict [Hardcover]

Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally significant sites and how they are inhabited, represented, witnessed and visited.Foreword; H.Zangana Abu Ghraib and the state of America: defining images; P.Hagopian Contested Mobilities and the Spatial Topography of Jerusalem; W.Pullan Altered States: The US-Mexico Borderlands as 'Third Nation'; M.Dear & J.Holzer Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconcilation; D.Lisle Burying the Hatchet? The Post-Combat Appropriation of Battlefield Spaces; T.Pollard 'The Truth that Will Set Us All Free': An Uncertain History of Memorials to Indigenous Australians; P.Read Competing Pasts: A Comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic Remembrance in two Berlin Memorial Sites; G.Knischewski & U.Spittler Memory, What's it Good For? Forced Labour, Blockhouses and Museums in Pas de Calais, Northern France; J.Aulich 'No-one Has Allowed Me to Cry': Trauma, Memorialization and Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda; S.Field 'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh Maze; C.McLaughlin

'Raises important questions about the materiality of place as expressed through memory, interpretation, representation, narrative and preservation. In looking at physical and psychological landscapes shaped by violence, this book is never glib: contradictions are intelligently drawn out and sensitively discussed.' - Museums Journal

MICHAEL DEAR Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USASEAN FIELD Centre for Popular Memory and the Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town, South AfricaPATRICK HAGOPIAN Lecturer in American Studies, Lancaster UniversityJACQUELINE HOLZER Doctoral student in the Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USAGERD KNISCHEWSKI Senior Lecturer in Germló