Editors:
- Offers diverse and holistic perspectives
- Research and field-work approaches and skills are adaptable and transferable to the needs of the reader and educators at all levels
- Autonomous learning suggestions and exercises are provided to encourage readers to engage further with the topics covered
Part of the book series: Key Challenges in Geography (KCHGE)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts and Theory—Sites of Memory—Centennials, Narratives, Social-Constructions, Legacies and Emotions
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The First World War and Peace: Boundaries, Legacies and Commemorations
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Legacies and Ghosts in Landscapes and Mindscapes
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About this book
Due to new world orders, geopolitical reconfigurations and ideals that emerged after 1918, many countries ranging from the Baltic and Russia to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece, eastern and central Europe to Ireland are continuing with commemorations regarding their specific memories in the wider Europe. Shared memorial spaces can act in post conflict areas as sites of reconciliation; nonetheless `the peace' cannot be taken for granted with insecurities, globalization, and nationalisms in the USA and Russia; the UK's Brexit stress and populist movements in Western Europe, Visegrád and Balkan countries. Citizen-fatigue is reflected in socio-political malaise mirrored in France's Yellow Vest movement and elsewhere. Empathy with other peoples' places of memory can assist citizens learn from the past. Memory sites promoted by the EU, Council of Europe and UNESCO may tend to homogenize local memories; nevertheless, they act as vectors in memorialization, stimulating debate and re-evaluating narratives.
This textbook combines geographical, inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary approaches and perspectives on spaces of memory by a range of authors from different countries and traditions offers the reader diverse and holistic perspectives on cultural geography, dynamic geopolitics, globalization and citizenship.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of History and Geography, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Gerry O'Reilly
About the editor
Gerry is Vice President of EUROGEO - EAG (European Association of Geographers); and International Geographical Union, National Representative for the Commission on Population and Vulnerability. Representative for L'Association Comenius and NETT that operate within the EU LLP/ERASMUS framework. Representative on the National Steering Committee of the CGDE: Centre for Global Development through Education (MI-UL); and CHRCE - Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education. He recently authored the book "Aligning Geopolicts, Humanitarian Aciton and Geography in Times of Conflict", published by Springer in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Places of Memory and Legacies in an Age of Insecurities and Globalization
Editors: Gerry O'Reilly
Series Title: Key Challenges in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60982-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60981-8Published: 04 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60984-9Published: 09 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60982-5Published: 03 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2522-8420
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 533
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Geography, Memory Studies, Citizenship, Political Sociology, Peace Studies, Development Policy