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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"memorialisation"”.
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Auschwitz: Art, Commemoration and Memorialisation: From 1940 To The Present
… LUDWIK ALOSZKO AUSCHWITZ: ART, COMMEMORATION AND MEMORIALISATION: FROM 1940 TO THE PRESENT ABSTRACT This thesis explores chronologically the art, commemoration and memorialisation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, from their establishment in 1940 to the present day. …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… relation to the historico-temporal dimension of memorialisation of the Troubles. From Chapter 5 onwards, I will focus on the practical aspects as well as the social, political and ideological reasons behind paramilitary-related memorialisation of the conflict, employing qualitative evidence from …
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The politics of memorialisation in Namibia: reading the Independence Memorial Museum
The Independence Memorial Museum is the latest addition to the post-independence memorial landscape by Namibia’s ruling party, South West African People’s Organisation (or the Swapo Party). Like many other southern African liberation movements turned ruling political parties, Swapo has looked …
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Greenwich parish church, memorialisation and community c. 1700 to the present day
… the local church, has uncovered evidence of the memorialisation priorities and processes which shaped these church buildings. What was forgotten, discarded or changed, where it can be detected, has provided further detailed information about how the churches were remodelled to create a new …
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'Tense Pasts, Present Tensions': Postcolonial Memoryscapes and the Memorialisation of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia
This thesis is concerned with how the Second World War is memorialised in Perak, Malaysia. It considers memoryscapes (or memory practices and sites) within the state dedicated to the war, established not only by state agencies but also grassroots actors. In terms of findings, the thesis first …
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South African public memorials of World War One. A historical view of processes in public memorialisation through symbolic content, with particular reference to Cape Town
… came the structure for the study of Cape Town memorialisation.
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The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005
… questions about memory, forgetting and memorialisation. These are questions that are potent in the collective consciousness of a nation still preoccupied with transition, reconciliation and transformation. [...]
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14 ways to remember Nzira gumi nena dzekuyeuka : exploring and preserving memories
My project is one of memorialisation, expressed as a creative process. A core theme throughout my work concerns the notions of absence and presence, as the project is founded on a personal loss and inspired by a desire to sustain the memories of my late brother. My investigation involves the …
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The forensic, the missing and the memorial: how missing persons of apartheid state sanctioned violence are memorialised through the mediation of the work of the forensic
… //hapo museum. It is through an analysis of this memorialisation, that the forensic emerges in two distinct ways, first as a category and then as part of the practice of exhumation. In exploring these notions, I critically examine the category “missing” as it has been presented at //hapo and the …
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Remembering Omagh : aesthetics, ethics and ownership in the performance of memory in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… my hometown. Centred on an investigation around memorialisation and the individual experience, the central thrust of my enquiry in writing and practice surrounds the ways in which memory functions as a mechanism to articulate and enforce identity and how this is performed in a society that is …
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Early Darwinian Commemoration in Britain, 1882-1914
… and wider cultural developments, previous memorialisations, and – consonant with a more recent historiographical turn to ‘place’ – local imperatives alongside those arising further afield. Consequently, memorialisers and observers are shown to have acted not merely as unreflective …
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Johanna Ey: a critical reappraisal
… fall and rise of her celebrity status and her memorialisation since her death.
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The untold story of the India Office Library and Records, 1946-1982
… the threads that make up the history-writing and memorialisation of partition in (mainly) Britain, but also in India and Pakistan.
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Heritage Interpretation of the Dead as a Tool for Peace and Reconciliation: the Case of Visitor Development at Rwanda's Post-Conflict Memorialscape
… today, as those directly affected by present-day memorialisation practices. In essence, the thesis demonstrates that the development of national and international tourism at difficult heritage sites can potentially serve as a positive contributor to the symbolic reparations needed by societies …
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‘Imagining' the Rohingya: Navigating Identity, Memory, and Visibility Examining different methods of documenting Rohingya identities, experiences, and lives.
… of exile and uncertainty of return or redress. Memorialisation as a sociocultural and cathartic process has been an important tool of healing, awareness, and dialogue for the Rohingya survivors. By focusing on memory initiatives that have grown from Cox's Bazar with active participation from the …
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Inside Out - The Iziko Slave Lodge as Witness to Slavery
… The modalities of witnessing, testimony, memory, memorialisation and museumization are explored as they pertain to the building and museum. The outcomes of the research are augmented by my own reflexive analysis, having worked at the Slave Lodge in its earlier museum iteration as the South African …
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'This subject will not go away': Memorialising frontier conflict in South Australia
… Australian War Memorial. The thesis argues that memorialisation in South Australia is an evolving social process which may contribute to broader processes of reconciliation in Australia by facilitating a wider recognition of past injustices.
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“Giving something back”: A case study of woodland burial and human experience at Barton Glebe.
… in a burial ground in which little or no memorialisation should take place. Subsequently, Chapter 7 argues that the dead are not necessarily given sovereign status, a feature that distinguishes Barton Glebe from other places of burial. It is the ‘natural’ world that becomes a feature at …
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