Heritage and Memory of War

Gilly Carr is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Director in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education, UK. She is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at St. Catharine’s College, UK. She is author of Legacies of Occupation: Archaeology, Heritage and Memory in the Channel Islands (2014) and co-editor (with Harold Mytum) of Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire (Routledge, 2012).Keir Reeves is Professor and Chair in Regional Engagement at Federation University, Australia. In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a visiting researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, UK where he worked with the Heritage Research Group in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. Keir is co-editor (with Bill Logan) of Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with ‘Difficult Heritage’ (Routledge, 2009).

• CONTENTSIntroduction: Islands of War, Islands of Memory Gilly Carr and Keir ReevesChapter 1: Islands, intimate and public memories of the Pacific War in FijiJacqueline LeckieChapter 2: Fragmented memories: the Dodecanese Islands during WWIIHazal PapuccularChapter 3: From poetic anamnesis to political commemoration: grassroots and institutional memories of the Greek Civil War on an Aegean IslandElena MamoulakiChapter 4: Islands of war, guardians of memory: the afterlife of the German Occupation in the British Channel IslandsGilly CarrChapter 5: Turncoat heroes or reckless egotists? The ambivalent memorialization of the ‘Russian War’ on the Dutch Island of TexelRob van GinkelChapter 6: The HMS Royal Oak and the ‘Ownership of Tragedy’ in OrkneyDaniel TraversChapter 7: "Tingbaot Wol Wo II Long Pasifik Aelan": managing memories of WWII heritage in the PacificKeir Reeves and Joseph CheerChapter 8: Malta G.C.: war memories and cultural narratives of a Mediterranean islandSandro Debono Chapter 9: Scraps of memory: Pacific War tourism on Efate Island (Vanuatu)Lamont LindstromChapter 10: Islands of no return: memory, materiality and the Falklands War Tony PollardChapter 11: The coastwatcher mythos: the politics and poetics of Solomon Islands war memoryGeoffrey WhiteChapter 12: The sacred and the profane: souvenir and collecting behaviours on the WWII battlefields of Peleliu Island, Palau, MicronesiaNeil Price, Rick Knecht and Gavin Lindsay Chapter 13: War remnants of the Greek archipelago: persistent memories or fragile heritage?Nota PantzouChapter 14: Post war legacies in the island of Kythera: oblivion versus historical memoryIrene LaganiChapter 15: Crete: visual memories of warMaria Kagiadaki Chapter 16: Remembering war and occupation in post-independence Timor-Leste Michael Leach

"This volume highlights the complexity and variety of war memory experienced and perpetuated in island communities across the world. Memories can be complex and include those of combatant and imprisoned aliens, allies, or indigenous island peoples, all with their own perspectives further distilled by the telling and re-telling of their experiences, and analyzed here by an international array of scholars." – Harold Mytum, University of Liverpool, UK"This collection of essays addresses an overlooked aspect of war histories and the relations between centre and periphery in Colonial and Imperial histories. Authors attend to the silences and untold incidents in overlooked small islands and territories that slip through the gap in big histories of nations. This book is important theoretically and empirically, and will be of interest to interdisciplinary scholars of war, memory, heritage and identity." – Max Quanchi, University of South Pacific, Fiji