Karen D Shelby
Biographic Data
| ID | 9774929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen D Shelby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelby |
| SIGNATURE | SHELBY K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Art History, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Baruch College, the City University of New York, United States |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘The living history of war’
This article takes the Memorial Museum Passchendaele, 1917 as a case study to examine living history as an instructive, interactive, and engaging means for both adult and youth to connect with museum content of the First World War. Located in Zonnebeke, Belgium, the museum provides an interpretation of the material culture – the objects in the museum – through a complex performance in which the visitor attempts to comprehend the horror of the war…
Flemish Nationalism and the Great War
Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and
IJzerbedevaart
As noted in prior chapters, the IJzer Pilgrimage began as a simple commemoration ritual to the sites of the ten primary IJzer martyrs. Since it was difficult to prioritize one over the other, the IJzertoren was built to commemorate not only these ten, but all of the fallen sons of Flanders. But once built, some five years after the idea was broached, the IJzertoren became a symbol for the conflict over which Flemish memory to commemorate: the her…
A Flemish Nation
The historical and territorial consequences of a nationalistic Flemish identity are linked to the primacy of the Flemish language for the “occupants of a territory that has been historicized and subjects of a history that has been territorialized.” 1 The contemporary political and linguistic division of Belgium into two united, but distinct districts, the French-speaking Walloons in the South and the Dutch-speaking Flemish in the northwest, has i…
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Flemish Nationalism and the Great War
Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and
IJzerbedevaart
As noted in prior chapters, the IJzer Pilgrimage began as a simple commemoration ritual to the sites of the ten primary IJzer martyrs. Since it was difficult to prioritize one over the other, the IJzertoren was built to commemorate not only these ten, but all of the fallen sons of Flanders. But once built, some five years after the idea was broached, the IJzertoren became a symbol for the conflict over which Flemish memory to commemorate: the her…
A Flemish Nation
The historical and territorial consequences of a nationalistic Flemish identity are linked to the primacy of the Flemish language for the “occupants of a territory that has been historicized and subjects of a history that has been territorialized.” 1 The contemporary political and linguistic division of Belgium into two united, but distinct districts, the French-speaking Walloons in the South and the Dutch-speaking Flemish in the northwest, has i…
‘The living history of war’
This article takes the Memorial Museum Passchendaele, 1917 as a case study to examine living history as an instructive, interactive, and engaging means for both adult and youth to connect with museum content of the First World War. Located in Zonnebeke, Belgium, the museum provides an interpretation of the material culture – the objects in the museum – through a complex performance in which the visitor attempts to comprehend the horror of the war…
History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Flemish (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works)