{"product_id":"on-commemoration-global-reflections-upon-remembering-war-9781788747325","title":"On Commemoration: Global Reflections upon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars debate these questions and ponder the future of commemoration. They include the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz, the award-winning novelists Aminatta Forna and Rachel Seiffert, and the human rights lawyer and Gifford Baillie Prize-winner Philippe Sands. Polemics and reflections together with poetry and creative prose movingly illuminate a subject that speaks to our common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e«This timely book is an intelligent, thought-provoking and sensitive journey into remembrance. It enables us to understand why commemoration is part of our present as much as our past.» (Shaista Aziz, journalist, writer, activist)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: Catherine Gilbert\/Kate McLoughlin\/Niall Munro: Introduction: The Call to Remembrance – Part I: Textual Commemoration – Catherine Gilbert: Introduction: Words Fail Us – Jenny Lewis: Now as Then –Aminatta Forna with Elleke Boehmer: Memoir and Memory – Philippe Sands: The Act of Looking Back – Rachel Seiffert: Daring to Remember – Shea Esterling, Michael John-Hopkins and Christopher Harding: Reflections on International Justice as a Commemorative Process – Daniel O’Gorman: Bearing Witness, Becoming Human: Cultural Memory, «Post-Truth» and the Digital – Jane Potter with Kate McLoughlin: Encountering Commemoration – Robert Eaglestone: My History, Our History – Lyndsey Stonebridge: Sacred Memory\/Prosaic History: Rivesaltes Memorial Camp – Harvey Whitehouse: Commemoration, Collective Loss and Social Cohesion – Cherilyn Elston: Open Wounds: Commemorating the Colombian Conflict – Frank Ledwidge: What Is It All About? – Alex Donnelly: \u003ci\u003eLacrimae Rerum\u003c\/i\u003e: Building a Bridge between Literary and Monumental Commemoration – Adnan al-Sayegh: \u003ci\u003eUruk’s Anthem \u003c\/i\u003e(Extracts) – Part II: Monumental Commemoration – Niall Munro: Introduction: More than Stone – Finding Ourselves in Our Monuments – Daniel Libeskind: Articulating History: Architecture and Memory – The Very Reverend John Witcombe: From Brokenness to Reconciliation – Cornelia Kulawik with Kate McLoughlin: Reconciliation and a Responsibility to the Past – Gabriel Moshenska: Memorials that Lurk and Pounce – Sue Zatland: Three Poems – Mark Johnston with Alex Donnelly: Community through Creativity: Empowering Veteran Artists – Emma Login: The Paradoxes of Commemoration – Silke Arnold-de Simine with Catherine Gilbert: Commemoration and the Limits of Empathy – Mariah Whelan: Four Poems – Jeremy Treglown: The Knowledge – Charles Gurrey with Niall Munro: A Concretisation of Meaning: Making Memorials – Marita Sturken with Niall Munro: When Is the Focus on Memory Just Too Much? The Challenges of Commemoration and Cultural Memory – Susie Campbell: Memoration – Justine Shaw: The Scent of Commemoration – Johana Wyss: Stones Do Not Forget: Forgetting and Being Forgotten in Czech Silesia – Tony Horwitz: Lose the Dudes, Keep the Horses: On Civil War Monuments in the United States – Part III: Aural Commemoration – Kate McLoughlin: Introduction: Music, Voices, Absence, Silence – Juliana M. Pistorius: Mourning and Music – Jonathan Dove with Kate Kennedy: Music and Memory – Peter Grant: Classical to Dub-Reggae: The First World War and Musical Memory – Dunya Mikhail: Bag of Bones – Rita Phillips: Interviewing as a Commemorative Practice – Annabel Williams: Hearing the Dead – Paul Whitty: Listening to the Past, Sound – Susie Campbell: Hush – John Dunston: Returning from Europe, Reflections on Post-War Commemoration – Patrick Toland: From «Daniel» – Lydia Wilson: Remembering the Lebanese Civil War – Noreen Masud: Monumental Silences – Férdia J. Stone-Davis: Re-valuing Silence – Maggie Ross: The Costliness of Commemoration – Susie Campbell: Traces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042524561751,"sku":"9781788747325","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788747325.jpg?v=1750954498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-commemoration-global-reflections-upon-remembering-war-9781788747325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}