C oventry —M emorializing P eace and R econciliation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11218923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne Kaczka‐Valliere (corresponding author), Andrew Rigby (Coventry University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 582-599 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peace & Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-0508 • E-ISSN: 1468-0130 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2008.00519.x |
| OpenAlex | W2007116476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Motorists and others coming into Coventry, a medium‐sized city in the center of the U.K., find themselves greeted by boundary markers that read “ Welcome to the City of Coventry: City of Peace and Reconciliation .” The sign points to a local collective and municipal identity that is grounded in a particular interpretation of the history of the city. This representation constitutes an example of the manner in which a city's experience of the barbarism of war has been used to create a “peace message.” The aim of this paper is to explain how this particular mode of memorializing past suffering for peaceful purposes came about and how the particular interpretation and narrative associated with the peace identity of the city was reproduced throughout the latter half of the last century
Aesthetics · Art · Barbarism · Boundary (topology · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |