Conflict Landscapes: Materiality and Meaning in Contested Places

ISBN-13: 9780367690199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 420 str.

Nicholas J. Saunders; Paul Cornish

Opis

Conflict Landscapes explores the long under-acknowledged and under-investigated aspects of where and how modern conflict landscapes interact and conjoin with pre-twentieth century places, activities, and beliefs, as well as with individuals and groups.

 

Spis treści

Part I The First World War 1  1 The Dead and their Spaces: Origins and Meanings in Modern Conflict Landscapes  2 Cutting the Landscape: Investigating the 1917 Battlefield of the Messines Ridge  3 Garden Landscapes of the Great War  4 Conflict Gas-Scape: Chemical Weapons on the Eastern Front, January 1915  5 Controversy in the Julian Alps: Erwin Rommel, Landscape, and the 12th Battle of the Soča/Isonzo  6 First World War Landscapes on the Alpine Front Line: New Technologies between Wish and (Augmented) Reality  7 Engaging Military Heritage: The Conflict Landscape of Val Canale, Italy  8 Conflict, Mobility, and Landscapes: The Arab Revolt in Southern Jordan, 1916–1918  9 Life and Death in a Conflict Landscape: Visitor and Local Perspectives from the Western Front  Part II The Second World War  10 Who Owns the ‘Wilderness’? Indigenous Second World War Landscapes in Sápmi, Finnish Lapland  11 Operation Northern Light: Remote Sensing a Second World War Conflict Landscape in Northern Finland  12 Power of Place and Landscape: The US 10th Mountain Division, from Colorado to the Apennines  13 War in the Normandy Bocage: British Perceptions and Memory of a Militarized Landscape  14 Archaeology, D-Day, and the Battle of Normandy: ‘The Longest Day’, a Landscape of Myth and Materiality  15 ‘An Example of Nazi Kultur’: Paradigmatic and Contested Materiality at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp  16 Campscapes and Homescapes of the Mind’s Eye: A Methodology for Analyzing the Landscapes of Internment Camps  Part III Beyond World Wars  17 Imagining Maritime Conflict Landscapes: Reactive Exhibitions, Sovereignty, and Representation in Vietnam  18 People, Barriers, Movement, and Art: Contested Sandscapes of Western Sahara  19 A Parthian City in the Iran–Iraq War: Incorporating the Ancient Site of Charax Spasinou into a Modern Conflict Landscape  20 Abstract Landscapes: Learning to Operate in Conflict Space