Matthew Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4563-3392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Underground (Heritage) Futures? Reimagining the Violent Ecologies of Subterranean Conflict in the Age of Climate Change
This paper explores the entangled legacies of subterranean conflict landscapes, focusing on the extensive tunnel systems beneath Vimy Ridge on the First World War's Western Front. Arguing against the traditional view of the underground as inert military infrastructure, it conceptualises these tunnels as dynamic ‘ecologies of violence’ (Breithoff Citation2025a) involving both human and more-than-human actors. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarsh…
Remembering the red zones
The First World War created landscapes in which people and the natural world became deeply entangled through conflict in a never-ending cycle of destruction and rebirth. Soldiers renegotiated their understanding of the natural world to survive, which in turn led to empathy for its suffering. After 1918, these more-than-human worlds of war became sites of pilgrimage and remembrance, strictly human places in which nature’s war-life was not acknowle…
A sensorial No Man's Land
During the First World War in France and Belgium life on the Western Front was predominantly lived below the surface. The proliferation of hitherto unimaginably powerful weaponry rendered surface existence untenable. This retreat into the earth necessitated a complete revision of soldiers' somatic engagement with their immediate environment. In my work as an archeologist of modern conflict landscapes, I have devised a methodology which combines a…
Commemoration as conflict
"Commemoration as conflict: space, memory and identity in peace processes." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(7), pp. 667–668
Remembering the red zones
The First World War created landscapes in which people and the natural world became deeply entangled through conflict in a never-ending cycle of destruction and rebirth. Soldiers renegotiated their understanding of the natural world to survive, which in turn led to empathy for its suffering. After 1918, these more-than-human worlds of war became sites of pilgrimage and remembrance, strictly human places in which nature’s war-life was not acknowle…
A sensorial No Man's Land
During the First World War in France and Belgium life on the Western Front was predominantly lived below the surface. The proliferation of hitherto unimaginably powerful weaponry rendered surface existence untenable. This retreat into the earth necessitated a complete revision of soldiers' somatic engagement with their immediate environment. In my work as an archeologist of modern conflict landscapes, I have devised a methodology which combines a…
Commemoration as conflict
"Commemoration as conflict: space, memory and identity in peace processes." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(7), pp. 667–668
A sensorial No Man's Land
During the First World War in France and Belgium life on the Western Front was predominantly lived below the surface. The proliferation of hitherto unimaginably powerful weaponry rendered surface existence untenable. This retreat into the earth necessitated a complete revision of soldiers' somatic engagement with their immediate environment. In my work as an archeologist of modern conflict landscapes, I have devised a methodology which combines a…
Underground (Heritage) Futures? Reimagining the Violent Ecologies of Subterranean Conflict in the Age of Climate Change
This paper explores the entangled legacies of subterranean conflict landscapes, focusing on the extensive tunnel systems beneath Vimy Ridge on the First World War's Western Front. Arguing against the traditional view of the underground as inert military infrastructure, it conceptualises these tunnels as dynamic ‘ecologies of violence’ (Breithoff Citation2025a) involving both human and more-than-human actors. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarsh…
Remembering the red zones
The First World War created landscapes in which people and the natural world became deeply entangled through conflict in a never-ending cycle of destruction and rebirth. Soldiers renegotiated their understanding of the natural world to survive, which in turn led to empathy for its suffering. After 1918, these more-than-human worlds of war became sites of pilgrimage and remembrance, strictly human places in which nature’s war-life was not acknowle…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (1 works)