The cultural politics of commemorating war.
Heroes and victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes -- from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian ru…
In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become im…
For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical eve…
How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spacesadapts contemporary spatial theory to develop a new conceptual toolbox, complementing existing work on dark tourism and difficult heritage, to ex…
This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate trends an…
Introduction / Nilüfer Göle -- Public space democracy, assembly and creativity / Nilüfer Göle -- What theory for the new protest movements? / Boyan Znepolski -- Embedding the prefigurations of Gezi protests : the rhizomatic spread of new subjectivities and politicized identities…