Memory, Place and Identity

Danielle Drozdzewski is a Human Geographer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.Sarah De Nardi is Research Associate in Cultural Geography at the University of Durham, UK.Emma Waterton is Associate Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at University of Western Sydney, Australia.

• 1. The Significance of Memory in the PresentPart I: Placing Memory in Public2. Encountering Memory in the Everyday City3. Personal Reflections on Formal Second World War Memorials in Everyday Spaces in Singapore4. Multiple and Contested Geographies of Memory: Remembering the 1989 Romanian ‘Revolution’5. Wrecks to Relics Sha’ar HaGai, Israel: Battle Remains and the Formation of a BattlescapePart II: Narrative Memorial Practices: Storytelling and Materiality6. Who were the Enemies? The Spatial Practices of Belonging and Exclusion in Second World War Italy7. Sound Memory: A Critical Concept for Researching Past Wartime Experiences.8. Heralding Jericho: Narratives of Remembrance, Reclamation and Republican Identity in Belfast, Northern Ireland.9. In the Shadow of Centenaries: Irish Artists go to War 1914-1918.Part III: Commemorative Rituals of Remembering in Place 10. Embodied Memory at the Australian War Memorial.11. Affective Atmospheres12. Beyond Sentimentality and Glorification: Using a History of Emotions to Deal with the Horror of War.13. Witnessing and Affect: Altering, Imagining and Making New Spaces to Remember the Great War in Modern Britain.14. Places of Memory and Mourning in Nazi Germany.

"The introduction to the book establishes its clear contribution to the field. If the success of a paper is measured by the number of underlines and starred notes written in the margins by a reader, this introduction may become the next starting point for future studies in this area of research among geographers... This volume contributes mightily to the literature on memorialization in general, and particularly that toward war. It builds a new layer of intricacy, impact, and thoughtfulness, while maintaining readability and focus. The book is a necessary addition to the library of any scholar looking to understand the memorialized landscape and its impact on visitors and future movements of peace." Chris W. Post (2016): Memory, place and identity: commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict, Social & Cultural Geography, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2016.1260186"[T]his volume contributes mightily to the literature on memorialization in general, and particularly that toward war. It builds a new layer of intricacy, impact, and thoughtfulness, while maintaining readability and focus. The book is a necessary addition to the library of any scholar looking to understand the memorialized landscape and its impact on visitors and future movements of peace."Chris W. Post Department of Geography, Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH, USA, Social & Cultural Geography"In Memory, Place, and Identity, Drozdzewski, Di Nardi, and Waterton (2016) bring together 14 essays under three themes: “Placing Memory in Public,” “Nar-rative Memorial Practices: Storytelling and Materiality in Placing Memory,” and “Commemorative Vigilance and Rituals of Remembering in Place.” I found the latter the most coherent and satisfactory with the first three papers dealing with Anzac phenomena being especially strong." K. Neil Jenkings, Newcastle University, Symbolic InteractionK. Neil JenkingsNewcastle University, Symbolic Interaction