G Carr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5560 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Carr |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Carr |
| FIRMA | CARR G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6683-5778 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Double Vision, “Resistancescapes,” and Activism
This article examines the heritage of landscapes of resistance from World War II. Specifically, it explores how the heritage professional or activist might deal with such landscapes when they were not created through guerrilla warfare, nor by partisans, but instead through unarmed civilian resistance. This article proposes two related concepts for conceptualizing and perceiving such landscapes: the “resistancescape” and “double vision.” Taken tog…
Holocaust distortion and the creation of Schrödinger’s mass graves
The proximity to violence
The Channel Islands were occupied by German forces in the early summer of 1940. Unlike Guernsey and Jersey, the population of Alderney had almost wholly evacuated to the UK. This left the island empty for German forces to commit atrocities upon thousands of forced laborers brought from across Europe to build the Atlantic Wall. Among them were those from Guernsey and Jersey who volunteered or were conscripted to work in Alderney, and who later gav…
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring the Concept Using the Case Studies of Terezín and Staro Sajmište
Should We Adopt a Pragmatic Approach to Holocaust Heritage in the 21st Century
This essay proposes that a pragmatic approach be taken towards Holocaust heritage in the 21st century and beyond. Its point of departure is the recognition that it is now nearly 80 years since the end of the war and we are not making heritage decisions today about such sites based on inheriting them 'untouched' in 1945 and dictating their future role as sites of education, remembrance and pilgrimage. This essay discusses whether we should be prep…
Saved from Oblivion”? The Uncertain Futures of Holocaust Heritage
The twenty-first century is a time of increased uncertainty over the future of sites associated with the Holocaust. As “sites of memory” and “sites of conscience,” they are part of an ongoing debate as to their contentious place within international heritage conventions (UNESCO 2023). Further, while much attention has been paid to the specific challenges of managing Holocaust heritage in the context of the imminent passing of the last of the Holo…
Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp
Most recent archaeological studies of prisoners of war have concentrated on resistance to confinement and identity creation within the camps. In contrast, the findings at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey, occupied by German military prisoners during the First World War, are here viewed through the lens of the varied placemaking strategies applied by both prisoners and camp staff. The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confi…
Narratives of Resistance, Moral Compromise, and Perpetration
Julia Brichta, a Jewish–Hungarian refugee, came to the Channel Island of Guernsey in 1939, a year before the arrival of the German occupying forces. The story of what happened to her during the war in Ravensbrück was told in her own words on several occasions between 1945 and 1965, yet the specifics of her path to Ravensbrück and her role as a camp policewoman there, have hitherto been unclear. Based on surviving archival documents, this paper at…
You are requested to ascertain the nationality of Jews residing in Guernsey’
This paper presents the first ever analysis of the 1930s logbooks of the aliens in the Channel Island of Guernsey; logbooks termed here as ‘objects of collaboration’ because of the role they played in the persecution and deportation of the island’s Jews. When placed in context, they highlight both the complicity of the local authorities and show how Britain failed Jewish refugees. This paper also suggests why Jews decided to register as such when…
The Jew and the “Jerrybag”
Locals of the Channel Islands have long perceived women who had relationships with soldiers during the German occupation as the lowest form of collaborator. The author challenges this perception through the life stories of two women: a Romanian Jew in hiding and the woman who sheltered her for the last eighteen months of the occupation. Both were in relationships with German soldiers. The families of these two women met for the first time at a re…
The Second World War and 'Other British Isles
"The Second World War and ‘Other British Isles’: Memory and Heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney and the Channel Islands." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 60–61
La mémoire du béton
Les habitants des îles Anglo-Normandes sont confrontés quotidiennement aux fantômes de l'occupation allemande de la seconde guerre mondiale. Soldats et travailleurs forcés apparaissent dans les bunkers qui parsèment les côtes de ces îles, offrant ainsi aux descendants des témoins de la guerre le moyen de cultiver la mémoire d'une période historique critique qu'ils n'ont eux-mêmes pas vécue. Insistant sur l'impossibilité de séparer ici le patrimoi…
Concrete's memory
This paper explores the constraints upon archaeologists who working in the field of heritage studies who encounter tales of haunting, or have their own experiences with ghosts, during fieldwork. The discipline lacks the terminology to describe, analyse or understand such experiences, leading to either omissions, embarrassed anecdotes at the end of 'serious' discussions of fieldwork, or talking in metaphors. Using the case study of the Channel Isl…
The Small Things of Life and Death
The theft of mundane items of material culture from the ground of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2015 by English schoolboys raises a number of questions about the value of similar items at this and other Nazi camps. This paper explores questions of value, interpretation, and the categorization of objects from such camps, before examining the case study of Lager Wick, a forced labor camp in Jersey. Here, the value of such objects was perceived locally acco…
Nazi camps on British soil
The forced labour camp of Lager Wick in Jersey, built during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1942, is the first Nazi camp to be excavated on British soil. This paper presents the findings from three seasons of fieldwork (2014–16), and includes an analysis of the architecture of internment and the signposts it leaves for that which does not survive. It also draws into sharp relief the link between archaeology and oral testimony and…
Beyond Surrender
Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 346–347
Taboo and sensitive heritage
In this article we propose the concept of taboo heritage as a way to describe a legacy of war so sensitive that it never undergoes heritage creation. Attempts at creation, such as heritage listing, renovation or excavation, are blocked by local authorities. We also examine the transition from taboo heritage to sensitive heritage, the next step along the ‘heritage continuum’, which we propose can only occur through the combined efforts of the pass…
Illicit antiquities'? The collection of Nazi militaria in the Channel Islands
This article explores the collection of Nazi or German militaria in the Channel Islands and the change in meaning that this practice has held for four generations of islanders from 1945 to the present day. Focusing on the role of children in building this trade in militaria, it examines why they have been the primary agents of collection and asks what meaning or value such objects hold for them. This article proposes the concept of 'inherited nos…
Have you been offended?” Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70
The Channel Islands have experienced great difficulty in coming to terms with the Holocaust given the implication of the local authorities in the registration of the islands’ Jewish population during the German occupation. While the situation in Jersey began to change in the 1990s due to the actions of the island's leadership, the issue is still taboo in Guernsey today. Taking a historical approach, this article addresses the power of that taboo …
Legacies of Occupation
Coins, crests and kings
During the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-1945, the ratio of occupying soldiers to civilians was higher than anywhere else in Occupied Europe; thus, armed resistance was virtually impossible. In its place, unarmed and symbolic resistance grew in importance, and while the role of this has been played down, such acts, many of which left a material trace, were of great significance to islanders. The case study presented here examines…
Beyond Normandy in World War 2
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The slowly healing scars of occupation
The heritage of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II (WWII) comprises both relics (such as bunkers, the sites of forced worker camps and artefacts) and post-occupation re-engagement with those relics (including memorialization, collection of artefacts in museums and commemorative ceremonies). In this article I examine the role of these relics using the metaphor of the scar. I also investigate the role that re-engagemen…
Shining a Light on Dark Tourism
Lying at the heart of Tonbridge and Ashworth's 'dissonant heritage' are issues of disinheritance and the subsequent discord that this can cause. Implicit in this is the lesson for heritage professionals to make sure that the heritage they manage is presented in an honest, ethical and inclusive manner that minimises dissonance. But what, precisely, does this mean in practice? What if those who 'own' the heritage are not professionals, but deeply c…
‘Romanisation’ and the Body
What evidence do we have for the change in identity (whether ethnic, local or individual), of the native, non-elite Britons from the later Iron Age to the early Roman period? I propose here that such a change in identity may be examined by following the use of four different 'Roman' 'body-related' artefact types through time. Related to this, I hope to be able to gain insight into whether the categories of 'Roman' or 'native' (in any hybrid or cr…
Shining a Light on Dark Tourism
Lying at the heart of Tonbridge and Ashworth's 'dissonant heritage' are issues of disinheritance and the subsequent discord that this can cause. Implicit in this is the lesson for heritage professionals to make sure that the heritage they manage is presented in an honest, ethical and inclusive manner that minimises dissonance. But what, precisely, does this mean in practice? What if those who 'own' the heritage are not professionals, but deeply c…
The Small Things of Life and Death
The theft of mundane items of material culture from the ground of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2015 by English schoolboys raises a number of questions about the value of similar items at this and other Nazi camps. This paper explores questions of value, interpretation, and the categorization of objects from such camps, before examining the case study of Lager Wick, a forced labor camp in Jersey. Here, the value of such objects was perceived locally acco…
Illicit antiquities'? The collection of Nazi militaria in the Channel Islands
This article explores the collection of Nazi or German militaria in the Channel Islands and the change in meaning that this practice has held for four generations of islanders from 1945 to the present day. Focusing on the role of children in building this trade in militaria, it examines why they have been the primary agents of collection and asks what meaning or value such objects hold for them. This article proposes the concept of 'inherited nos…
Nazi camps on British soil
The forced labour camp of Lager Wick in Jersey, built during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1942, is the first Nazi camp to be excavated on British soil. This paper presents the findings from three seasons of fieldwork (2014–16), and includes an analysis of the architecture of internment and the signposts it leaves for that which does not survive. It also draws into sharp relief the link between archaeology and oral testimony and…
Taboo and sensitive heritage
In this article we propose the concept of taboo heritage as a way to describe a legacy of war so sensitive that it never undergoes heritage creation. Attempts at creation, such as heritage listing, renovation or excavation, are blocked by local authorities. We also examine the transition from taboo heritage to sensitive heritage, the next step along the ‘heritage continuum’, which we propose can only occur through the combined efforts of the pass…
Concrete's memory
This paper explores the constraints upon archaeologists who working in the field of heritage studies who encounter tales of haunting, or have their own experiences with ghosts, during fieldwork. The discipline lacks the terminology to describe, analyse or understand such experiences, leading to either omissions, embarrassed anecdotes at the end of 'serious' discussions of fieldwork, or talking in metaphors. Using the case study of the Channel Isl…
Coins, crests and kings
During the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-1945, the ratio of occupying soldiers to civilians was higher than anywhere else in Occupied Europe; thus, armed resistance was virtually impossible. In its place, unarmed and symbolic resistance grew in importance, and while the role of this has been played down, such acts, many of which left a material trace, were of great significance to islanders. The case study presented here examines…
Should We Adopt a Pragmatic Approach to Holocaust Heritage in the 21st Century
This essay proposes that a pragmatic approach be taken towards Holocaust heritage in the 21st century and beyond. Its point of departure is the recognition that it is now nearly 80 years since the end of the war and we are not making heritage decisions today about such sites based on inheriting them 'untouched' in 1945 and dictating their future role as sites of education, remembrance and pilgrimage. This essay discusses whether we should be prep…
Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp
Most recent archaeological studies of prisoners of war have concentrated on resistance to confinement and identity creation within the camps. In contrast, the findings at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey, occupied by German military prisoners during the First World War, are here viewed through the lens of the varied placemaking strategies applied by both prisoners and camp staff. The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confi…
Beyond Surrender
Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 346–347
The slowly healing scars of occupation
The heritage of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II (WWII) comprises both relics (such as bunkers, the sites of forced worker camps and artefacts) and post-occupation re-engagement with those relics (including memorialization, collection of artefacts in museums and commemorative ceremonies). In this article I examine the role of these relics using the metaphor of the scar. I also investigate the role that re-engagemen…
‘Romanisation’ and the Body
What evidence do we have for the change in identity (whether ethnic, local or individual), of the native, non-elite Britons from the later Iron Age to the early Roman period? I propose here that such a change in identity may be examined by following the use of four different 'Roman' 'body-related' artefact types through time. Related to this, I hope to be able to gain insight into whether the categories of 'Roman' or 'native' (in any hybrid or cr…
The slowly healing scars of occupation
The heritage of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II (WWII) comprises both relics (such as bunkers, the sites of forced worker camps and artefacts) and post-occupation re-engagement with those relics (including memorialization, collection of artefacts in museums and commemorative ceremonies). In this article I examine the role of these relics using the metaphor of the scar. I also investigate the role that re-engagemen…
Shining a Light on Dark Tourism
Lying at the heart of Tonbridge and Ashworth's 'dissonant heritage' are issues of disinheritance and the subsequent discord that this can cause. Implicit in this is the lesson for heritage professionals to make sure that the heritage they manage is presented in an honest, ethical and inclusive manner that minimises dissonance. But what, precisely, does this mean in practice? What if those who 'own' the heritage are not professionals, but deeply c…
Beyond Normandy in World War 2
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Coins, crests and kings
During the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-1945, the ratio of occupying soldiers to civilians was higher than anywhere else in Occupied Europe; thus, armed resistance was virtually impossible. In its place, unarmed and symbolic resistance grew in importance, and while the role of this has been played down, such acts, many of which left a material trace, were of great significance to islanders. The case study presented here examines…
Legacies of Occupation
Have you been offended?” Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70
The Channel Islands have experienced great difficulty in coming to terms with the Holocaust given the implication of the local authorities in the registration of the islands’ Jewish population during the German occupation. While the situation in Jersey began to change in the 1990s due to the actions of the island's leadership, the issue is still taboo in Guernsey today. Taking a historical approach, this article addresses the power of that taboo …
Nazi camps on British soil
The forced labour camp of Lager Wick in Jersey, built during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1942, is the first Nazi camp to be excavated on British soil. This paper presents the findings from three seasons of fieldwork (2014–16), and includes an analysis of the architecture of internment and the signposts it leaves for that which does not survive. It also draws into sharp relief the link between archaeology and oral testimony and…
Beyond Surrender
Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 346–347
Taboo and sensitive heritage
In this article we propose the concept of taboo heritage as a way to describe a legacy of war so sensitive that it never undergoes heritage creation. Attempts at creation, such as heritage listing, renovation or excavation, are blocked by local authorities. We also examine the transition from taboo heritage to sensitive heritage, the next step along the ‘heritage continuum’, which we propose can only occur through the combined efforts of the pass…
Illicit antiquities'? The collection of Nazi militaria in the Channel Islands
This article explores the collection of Nazi or German militaria in the Channel Islands and the change in meaning that this practice has held for four generations of islanders from 1945 to the present day. Focusing on the role of children in building this trade in militaria, it examines why they have been the primary agents of collection and asks what meaning or value such objects hold for them. This article proposes the concept of 'inherited nos…
The Small Things of Life and Death
The theft of mundane items of material culture from the ground of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2015 by English schoolboys raises a number of questions about the value of similar items at this and other Nazi camps. This paper explores questions of value, interpretation, and the categorization of objects from such camps, before examining the case study of Lager Wick, a forced labor camp in Jersey. Here, the value of such objects was perceived locally acco…
La mémoire du béton
Les habitants des îles Anglo-Normandes sont confrontés quotidiennement aux fantômes de l'occupation allemande de la seconde guerre mondiale. Soldats et travailleurs forcés apparaissent dans les bunkers qui parsèment les côtes de ces îles, offrant ainsi aux descendants des témoins de la guerre le moyen de cultiver la mémoire d'une période historique critique qu'ils n'ont eux-mêmes pas vécue. Insistant sur l'impossibilité de séparer ici le patrimoi…
Concrete's memory
This paper explores the constraints upon archaeologists who working in the field of heritage studies who encounter tales of haunting, or have their own experiences with ghosts, during fieldwork. The discipline lacks the terminology to describe, analyse or understand such experiences, leading to either omissions, embarrassed anecdotes at the end of 'serious' discussions of fieldwork, or talking in metaphors. Using the case study of the Channel Isl…
The Jew and the “Jerrybag”
Locals of the Channel Islands have long perceived women who had relationships with soldiers during the German occupation as the lowest form of collaborator. The author challenges this perception through the life stories of two women: a Romanian Jew in hiding and the woman who sheltered her for the last eighteen months of the occupation. Both were in relationships with German soldiers. The families of these two women met for the first time at a re…
The Second World War and 'Other British Isles
"The Second World War and ‘Other British Isles’: Memory and Heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney and the Channel Islands." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 60–61
You are requested to ascertain the nationality of Jews residing in Guernsey’
This paper presents the first ever analysis of the 1930s logbooks of the aliens in the Channel Island of Guernsey; logbooks termed here as ‘objects of collaboration’ because of the role they played in the persecution and deportation of the island’s Jews. When placed in context, they highlight both the complicity of the local authorities and show how Britain failed Jewish refugees. This paper also suggests why Jews decided to register as such when…
Narratives of Resistance, Moral Compromise, and Perpetration
Julia Brichta, a Jewish–Hungarian refugee, came to the Channel Island of Guernsey in 1939, a year before the arrival of the German occupying forces. The story of what happened to her during the war in Ravensbrück was told in her own words on several occasions between 1945 and 1965, yet the specifics of her path to Ravensbrück and her role as a camp policewoman there, have hitherto been unclear. Based on surviving archival documents, this paper at…
Saved from Oblivion”? The Uncertain Futures of Holocaust Heritage
The twenty-first century is a time of increased uncertainty over the future of sites associated with the Holocaust. As “sites of memory” and “sites of conscience,” they are part of an ongoing debate as to their contentious place within international heritage conventions (UNESCO 2023). Further, while much attention has been paid to the specific challenges of managing Holocaust heritage in the context of the imminent passing of the last of the Holo…
Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp
Most recent archaeological studies of prisoners of war have concentrated on resistance to confinement and identity creation within the camps. In contrast, the findings at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey, occupied by German military prisoners during the First World War, are here viewed through the lens of the varied placemaking strategies applied by both prisoners and camp staff. The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confi…
Should We Adopt a Pragmatic Approach to Holocaust Heritage in the 21st Century
This essay proposes that a pragmatic approach be taken towards Holocaust heritage in the 21st century and beyond. Its point of departure is the recognition that it is now nearly 80 years since the end of the war and we are not making heritage decisions today about such sites based on inheriting them 'untouched' in 1945 and dictating their future role as sites of education, remembrance and pilgrimage. This essay discusses whether we should be prep…
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century
The Pragmatics of Holocaust Heritage in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring the Concept Using the Case Studies of Terezín and Staro Sajmište
Double Vision, “Resistancescapes,” and Activism
This article examines the heritage of landscapes of resistance from World War II. Specifically, it explores how the heritage professional or activist might deal with such landscapes when they were not created through guerrilla warfare, nor by partisans, but instead through unarmed civilian resistance. This article proposes two related concepts for conceptualizing and perceiving such landscapes: the “resistancescape” and “double vision.” Taken tog…
Holocaust distortion and the creation of Schrödinger’s mass graves
The proximity to violence
The Channel Islands were occupied by German forces in the early summer of 1940. Unlike Guernsey and Jersey, the population of Alderney had almost wholly evacuated to the UK. This left the island empty for German forces to commit atrocities upon thousands of forced laborers brought from across Europe to build the Atlantic Wall. Among them were those from Guernsey and Jersey who volunteered or were conscripted to work in Alderney, and who later gav…
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