Contested Spaces: Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230013368 ISBN 13: 9780230013360

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

MICHAEL DEAR Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA SEAN FIELD Centre for Popular Memory and the Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa PATRICK HAGOPIAN Lecturer in American Studies, Lancaster University JACQUELINE HOLZER Doctoral student in the Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA GERD KNISCHEWSKI Senior Lecturer in German Politics, University of Portsmouth, UK DEBBIE LISLE School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, UK CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, the University of Ulster, UK TONY POLLARD Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK WENDY PULLAN Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK PETER READ Deputy Director of National Centre for Indigenous Studies, the Australian National University ULLA SPITTLER Principal Lecturer in German, University of Brighton, UK HAIFA ZANGANA Painter, writer and author of Through the Vast Halls of Memory

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230013368
• ISBN 13: 9780230013360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279
• Editor: Purbrick L., Aulich J., Dawson G.