On Commemoration
Global Reflections upon Remembering War
Edited By Catherine Gilbert, Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro
How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars debate these questions and ponder the future of commemoration. They include the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz, the award-winning novelists Aminatta Forna and Rachel Seiffert, and the human rights lawyer and Gifford Baillie Prize-winner Philippe Sands. Polemics and reflections together with poetry and creative prose movingly illuminate a subject that speaks to our common humanity.
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2020. XVIII, 346 pp., 11 fig. col., 14 fig. b/w.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword (John, Lord Alderdice)
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Call to Remembrance (Catherine Gilbert, Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro)
- Part I Textual Commemoration
- Introduction: Words Fail Us (Catherine Gilbert)
- Now as Then (Jenny Lewis)
- Memoir and Memory (Aminatta Forna with Elleke Boehmer)
- The Act of Looking Back (Philippe Sands)
- Daring to Remember (Rachel Seiffert)
- Reflections on International Justice as a Commemorative Process (Shea Esterling, Michael John-Hopkins and Christopher Harding)
- Bearing Witness, Becoming Human: Cultural Memory, ‘Post-Truth’ and the Digital (Daniel O’Gorman)
- Encountering Commemoration (Jane Potter with Kate McLoughlin)
- My History, Our History (Robert Eaglestone)
- Sacred Memory/Prosaic History: Rivesaltes Memorial Camp (Lyndsey Stonebridge)
- Commemoration, Collective Loss and Social Cohesion (Harvey Whitehouse)
- Open Wounds: Commemorating the Colombian Conflict (Cherilyn Elston)
- What Is It All About? (Frank Ledwidge)
- Lacrimae Rerum : Building a Bridge between Literary and Monumental Commemoration (Alex Donnelly)
- Uruk’s Anthem (Extracts) (Adnan al-Sayegh)
- Part II Monumental Commemoration
- Introduction: More than Stone – Finding Ourselves in Our Monuments (Niall Munro)
- Articulating History: Architecture and Memory (Daniel Libeskind)
- From Brokenness to Reconciliation (The Very Reverend John Witcombe)
- Reconciliation and a Responsibility to the Past (Cornelia Kulawik with Kate McLoughlin)
- Memorials that Lurk and Pounce (Gabriel Moshenska)
- Three Poems (Sue Zatland)
- Community through Creativity: Empowering Veteran Artists (Mark Johnston with Alex Donnelly)
- The Paradoxes of Commemoration (Emma Login)
- Commemoration and the Limits of Empathy (Silke Arnold-de Simine with Catherine Gilbert)
- Four Poems (Mariah Whelan)
- The Knowledge (Jeremy Treglown)
- A Concretisation of Meaning: Making Memorials (Charles Gurrey with Niall Munro)
- When Is the Focus on Memory Just Too Much? The Challenges of Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Marita Sturken with Niall Munro)
- Memoration (Susie Campbell)
- The Scent of Commemoration (Justine Shaw)
- Stones Do Not Forget: Forgetting and Being Forgotten in Czech Silesia (Johana Wyss)
- Lose the Dudes, Keep the Horses: On Civil War Monuments in the United States (Tony Horwitz)
- Part III Aural Commemoration
- Introduction: Music, Voices, Absence, Silence (Kate McLoughlin)
- Mourning and Music (Juliana M. Pistorius)
- Music and Memory (Jonathan Dove with Kate Kennedy)
- Classical to Dub-Reggae: The First World War and Musical Memory (Peter Grant)
- Bag of Bones (Dunya Mikhail)
- Interviewing as a Commemorative Practice (Rita Phillips)
- Hearing the Dead (Annabel Williams)
- Listening to the Past, Sound (Paul Whitty)
- Hush (Susie Campbell)
- Returning from Europe, Reflections on Post-War Commemoration (John Dunston)
- From ‘Daniel’ (Patrick Toland)
- Remembering the Lebanese Civil War (Lydia Wilson)
- Monumental Silences (Noreen Masud)
- Re-valuing Silence (Férdia J. Stone-Davis)
- The Costliness of Commemoration (Maggie Ross)
- Traces (Susie Campbell)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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‘This timely book is an intelligent, thought-provoking and sensitive journey into remembrance. It enables us to understand why commemoration is part of our present as much as our past.’
– Shaista Aziz, journalist, writer, activist
How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars debate these questions and ponder the future of commemoration. They include the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Tony Horwitz, the award-winning novelists Aminatta Forna and Rachel Seiffert, and the human rights lawyer and Gifford Baillie Prize-winner Philippe Sands. Polemics and reflections together with poetry and creative prose movingly illuminate a subject that speaks to our common humanity.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword (John, Lord Alderdice)
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Call to Remembrance (Catherine Gilbert, Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro)
- Part I Textual Commemoration
- Introduction: Words Fail Us (Catherine Gilbert)
- Now as Then (Jenny Lewis)
- Memoir and Memory (Aminatta Forna with Elleke Boehmer)
- The Act of Looking Back (Philippe Sands)
- Daring to Remember (Rachel Seiffert)
- Reflections on International Justice as a Commemorative Process (Shea Esterling, Michael John-Hopkins and Christopher Harding)
- Bearing Witness, Becoming Human: Cultural Memory, ‘Post-Truth’ and the Digital (Daniel O’Gorman)
- Encountering Commemoration (Jane Potter with Kate McLoughlin)
- My History, Our History (Robert Eaglestone)
- Sacred Memory/Prosaic History: Rivesaltes Memorial Camp (Lyndsey Stonebridge)
- Commemoration, Collective Loss and Social Cohesion (Harvey Whitehouse)
- Open Wounds: Commemorating the Colombian Conflict (Cherilyn Elston)
- What Is It All About? (Frank Ledwidge)
- Lacrimae Rerum : Building a Bridge between Literary and Monumental Commemoration (Alex Donnelly)
- Uruk’s Anthem (Extracts) (Adnan al-Sayegh)
- Part II Monumental Commemoration
- Introduction: More than Stone – Finding Ourselves in Our Monuments (Niall Munro)
- Articulating History: Architecture and Memory (Daniel Libeskind)
- From Brokenness to Reconciliation (The Very Reverend John Witcombe)
- Reconciliation and a Responsibility to the Past (Cornelia Kulawik with Kate McLoughlin)
- Memorials that Lurk and Pounce (Gabriel Moshenska)
- Three Poems (Sue Zatland)
- Community through Creativity: Empowering Veteran Artists (Mark Johnston with Alex Donnelly)
- The Paradoxes of Commemoration (Emma Login)
- Commemoration and the Limits of Empathy (Silke Arnold-de Simine with Catherine Gilbert)
- Four Poems (Mariah Whelan)
- The Knowledge (Jeremy Treglown)
- A Concretisation of Meaning: Making Memorials (Charles Gurrey with Niall Munro)
- When Is the Focus on Memory Just Too Much? The Challenges of Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Marita Sturken with Niall Munro)
- Memoration (Susie Campbell)
- The Scent of Commemoration (Justine Shaw)
- Stones Do Not Forget: Forgetting and Being Forgotten in Czech Silesia (Johana Wyss)
- Lose the Dudes, Keep the Horses: On Civil War Monuments in the United States (Tony Horwitz)
- Part III Aural Commemoration
- Introduction: Music, Voices, Absence, Silence (Kate McLoughlin)
- Mourning and Music (Juliana M. Pistorius)
- Music and Memory (Jonathan Dove with Kate Kennedy)
- Classical to Dub-Reggae: The First World War and Musical Memory (Peter Grant)
- Bag of Bones (Dunya Mikhail)
- Interviewing as a Commemorative Practice (Rita Phillips)
- Hearing the Dead (Annabel Williams)
- Listening to the Past, Sound (Paul Whitty)
- Hush (Susie Campbell)
- Returning from Europe, Reflections on Post-War Commemoration (John Dunston)
- From ‘Daniel’ (Patrick Toland)
- Remembering the Lebanese Civil War (Lydia Wilson)
- Monumental Silences (Noreen Masud)
- Re-valuing Silence (Férdia J. Stone-Davis)
- The Costliness of Commemoration (Maggie Ross)
- Traces (Susie Campbell)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index