Itineraries of the Great War and the rise of the local on the Western Front

Memory, commemoration and the shifting regimes of remembrance tourism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5830516
AutoresR Ahmad (0000-0002-9446-2681, University of Kashmir, autor de correspondencia), Anne Hertzog (CY Cergy Paris Université)
Año2018
Volumen13
Número6
Páginas1166-1182
Fecha de publicación2018-07-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698018784117
OpenAlexW2884445329
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas37

The mainstream grand narratives of the Great War have tended to disregard local perspectives from territories on the Western Front. Using on-the-field visits of battlefields, interviews with stakeholders and analysis of battlefield guidebooks and itineraries, this article addresses these gaps by examining local assertions in the re-invention of battlefield itineraries and remembrance trails of the Great War, the new socio-spatial order they establish and discordance of perspectives it triggers between the nation and the territory. The itinerary, thus, devised by memory entrepreneurs and performed by visitors on the ground becomes an 'effort of remembrance' and a dynamic scheme mediating between participants and place

Battlefield · Collective memory · Mainstream · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Religious Tourism and Spaces