Places of Memory and Legacies in an Age of Insecurities and Globalization

ISBN-13: 9783030609818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 533 str.

Gerry O'Reilly

Spis treści

Part 1: Landscape, place, heritage and memory

Key words: landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions, geopolitics, UNESCO, World Heritage

Chapter: Landscape and place

Chapter: Heritage and memory

Chapter: Geopolitics and emotions

Chapter: UNESCO and World Heritage

Part 2: Geography and inter-disciplinarily: Perspectives from different places

Chapters by different authors:

1. Spaces of Memory: Glasnevin Cemetery and Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries (2012-22)

Gerry O’Reilly, School of History and Geography, Dublin City University, Ireland

2. ‘Nowhere to pay our respects’: memorials for the Irish dead of World War I constructed in Ireland, 2006-2018. 

Jonathan Cherry. School of History and Geography, Dublin City University, Ireland

3. Commemorations and Identity: Cultural Geographies of the Gallipoli Commemorations.

Yilmaz Ari. Bandirma Onyedi Eylül University, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Department of Geography, Turkey. 

4. The Battlefield of Mohacs, the ’Hungarian Kosovo polje’ (1526): The role of Turkish Hill (Törökdomb) in the Hungarian national identity.

Norbert Pap and Reményi Péter. Department of Political Geography, Regional and Development Studies. University of Pécs, Hungary.

5. Commemoration and public space - the case of Liberty Square, Budapest

Boros, Lajos University of Szeged, Hungary

6. Commemorative and collaborative landscape in Estonia’s centenary celebrations.

Anu Printsmann. Centre for Landscape and Culture, School of Humanities, Tallinn University. Estonia.

7. Housing Memories in Riga: WWI and its aftermath - representation of the apartment in Soviet Cinema and now.

Janis Matvejs. University of Riga.

8. Velenje, Slovenia: Industrial semiotics - dominant versus formal identity in an industrial town.

Peter Kumer. Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia

9. Architectural tendencies in the context of cultural and social affinities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Elsa Turkusic. Sarajevo University. 

10. Geomedia Contributions to places of memory and Holocaust Education. 

Thomas Jekel. Geography Department. University of Salzburg.

11. Contesting geopolitical discourses over an essentialized Moldovan identity

Tamás Illés. Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

12. Tullaghoge’s Destruction and Derry’s Ascension:  Space Made Sacred in Seventeenth-Century Ulster – then and now.

James Rynne. Boston College.

13. Prebends Dorf Local Cemetery – Place of local, Austrian and International Memory. 

Christian Matzka. University of Vienna.

14. Cross memories around the international political borders. The case of the western Spanish-French border.

Carles Carreras, Emeritus Professor on Human Geography, University of Barcelona

15. Places, landscapes and memory policies: geographical perspectives

Jacobo García Álvarez. University Carlos III, Madrid. 

16. Narratives of place and land in a digital age: Critical reflections on the need for Māori oral geographical histories to be heard in New Zealand schools and community settings

Richard Manning, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

17. Greece and spaces of memory: Teaching geography.

Apostolia (Lia) Galani. National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

18. NOTE: Awaiting 3 authors still to confirm their chapters from France, Germany and UK.

Part 3: Conclusions

Conclusions

Autonomous learning and student exercises (upper UG and PGs)

O autorze

Gerry O'Reilly is Associate Professor in Geography, and International Coordinator for the School of History and Geography, with research and teaching interests in geopolitics, political, economic and cultural geography, sustainable development and education. Modules include: Geopolitics and Humanitarian Action; Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe and Spaces of Memory. He obtained his PhD from Durham University, MA from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork), HDipEd and BA, Maynooth University. Post-doctoral research was undertaken in political geography and sustainable development at University College Dublin. Before joining SPC - DCU in 1997, Gerry held lectureship and research posts at UCD, and Universities of Durham, Tunis, and Algeria-Annaba, and Visiting Professorship at the Ohio State University, Columbus. Regarding Humanitarian Action and Geopolitics and as Faculty member of ECHO (EU Humanitarian Office) -  sponsored NOHA (Network on Humanitarian Action), he was Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow at the Western Cape University (2009), Toronto York University (2008) and Columbia University NY (2007).

Gerry is Vice President of EUROGEO - EAG (European Association of Geographers); and International Geographical Union, National Representative for the Commission on Population and Vulnerability. Representative for L'Association Comenius and NETT that operate within the EU LLP/ERASMUS framework. Representative on the National Steering Committee of the CGDE: Centre for Global Development through Education (MI-UL); and CHRCE - Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education. He recently authored the book "Aligning Geopolicts, Humanitarian Aciton and Geography in Times of Conflict", published by Springer in 2019. 

Blurb

In this book, practitioners and students discover perspectives on landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions and geopolitics intertwined in evolving citizenship and democratization debates. This volume shows how memorialization can contribute to wider inclusive interpretations of history, tourism and human rights promoted by the European Project. It's geographies of memories can foster cooperation as witnessed throughout Europe during the 2014-18 WWI commemorations. 

Due to new world orders, geopolitical reconfigurations and ideals that emerged after 1918, many countries ranging from the Baltic and Russia to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece, eastern and central Europe to Ireland are continuing with commemorations regarding their specific memories in the wider Europe. Shared memorial spaces can act in post conflict areas as sites of reconciliation; nonetheless `the peace' cannot be taken for granted with insecurities, globalization, and nationalisms in the USA and Russia; the UK's Brexit stress and populist movements in Western Europe, Visegrád and Balkan countries. Citizen-fatigue is reflected in socio-political malaise mirrored in France's Yellow Vest movement and elsewhere. Empathy with other peoples' places of memory can assist citizens learn from the past. Memory sites promoted by the EU, Council of Europe and UNESCO may tend to homogenize local memories; nevertheless, they act as vectors in memorialization, stimulating debate and re-evaluating narratives.

This textbook combines geographical, inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary approaches and perspectives on spaces of memory by a range of authors from different countries and traditions offers the reader diverse and holistic perspectives on cultural geography, dynamic geopolitics, globalization and citizenship.