Visual Histories of Postwar Reconstruction

Special Issue Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID12914833
AuthorsTom Allbeson (0000-0002-7597-9087, Cardiff University, corresponding author), Claire Gorrara (0000-0003-0732-7666, Cardiff University)
Year2022
Volume15
Issue2
Pages125-132
Publication date2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17526272.2022.2065121
OpenAlexW4280598973
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This special issue interrogates the role photography played in shaping reconstruction projects around the globe from the mid-forties to the early fifties. The collected articles address contexts and topics, such as demobilization in the USSR, home-building in Australia, efforts to reassert imperial rule in Burma (now Myanmar), attempts to rehabilitate child Holocaust survivors in Britain, and understandings of DP (displaced persons) camps in the French occupation zone of postwar Germany. This introduction provides an evaluation of the multi-dimensional meanings of ‘postwar’ and ‘reconstruction’ and considers ways in which the experience of global conflict underpinned the reconstruction work of political institutions and civic organizations across nations and geopolitical circumstances in war’s aftermath. We emphasize the centrality of photography to public debates and we propose a shared research framework that explores how photographic representations have shaped public debate about the wartime past, and continue to inform cultural memories in the present

Centrality · Demobilization · Geopolitics · Globe · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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