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

Memory, commemoration and the shifting regimes of remembrance tourism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5830516
AutoresR Ahmad (0000-0002-9446-2681, University of Kashmir, autor correspondente), Anne Hertzog (CY Cergy Paris Université)
Ano2018
Volume13
Fascículo6
Páginas1166-1182
Data de publicação2018-07-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698018784117
OpenAlexW2884445329
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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