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Conflict Landscapes

Materiality and Meaning in Contested Places
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Conflict Landscapes examines the interaction between modern conflict sites and earlier historical places, exploring how landscapes marked by mass death and destruction preserve and reshape memory and identity. The book offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the human experience of conflict through themes such as memory, emotion, and wellbeing.
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This work is ideal for readers and researchers in archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, military history, and heritage studies interested in the complex relationship between conflict and landscape.

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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.

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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.

Investigating and understanding the often unpredictable power and legacies of landscapes that have seen (and often still viscerally embody) the consequences of mass death and destruction, the book shows, through these landscapes, the power of destruction to preserve, refocus, and often reconfigure the past. Responding to the complexity of modern conflict, the book offers a coherent, integrated, and sensitized hybrid approach, which calls on different disciplines where they overlap in a shared common terrain. Dealing with issues such as memory, identity, emotion, and wellbeing, the chapters tease out the human experience of modern conflict and its relationship to landscape.

Conflict Landscapes will appeal to a wide range of disciplines involved in studying conflict, such as archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies, art history, cultural history, cultural geography, military history, and heritage and museum studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367690199

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 June 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 122 Halftones, black and white; 126 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders
  • Edited by Paul Cornish

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 420

About the Author

Nicholas J. Saunders is Professor of Material Culture at Bristol University, UK, and co-director of the Great Arab Revolt Project. Between 1998 and 2004, he was British Academy Senior Research Fellow at University College London, making the first anthropological study of the material culture of the First World War.

Paul Cornish is a Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum. He is currently working on the creation of a new permanent Second World War gallery to open in 2021, having previously been involved with the construction of the First World War gallery, which opened in 2014.

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