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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"memorialization"”.
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Activist memorialization : bearing witness at St. George's Cathedral
… this thesis is to address the question: how can memorialization contribute to social transformation? Specifically, in what ways is memorialization activist? To answer this question I worked with St. George’s Cathedral’s Crypt Memory and Witness Centre on their Bearing Witness exhibit, …
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An Uncomfortable Memorialization: Remembering Textile Industrialization in the South
This thesis explores landscape's framing role in memorialization through a discussion of southeastern United States mill villages. This paper moves the preservation discussion from the architectural realm of an isolated textile mill building to the scale of the landscape encompassing the entire …
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Heroes or Terrorists? War, Resistance, and Memorialization in Tuscany, 1943-1945
This thesis will delve into the unfolding of the Italian Resistance, from an underground association to a militant organization, which aided and facilitated the Allied advance to northern Italy. Particular emphasis will be placed on the actions and consequences of the Resistance in rural Tuscany …
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Networked Memorialization: Victims Of Communism Memorials In Germany, Russia, And The U.s.
… projects. I develop the concept on networked memorialization as a framework for understanding the relational nature of contemporary memorial projects. Networked memorialization is the idea that memorial projects are made meaningful within a complex network of institutions, projects, and …
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How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625
This dissertation focuses on the use of funeral commemoration in religious and political controversies in early modern England. By examining the rhetoric used in funeral sermons and elegies, I show that commemorative writers use figural interpretation of the Bible to legitimize praise by linking …
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"The Verdict of History": Defining and Defending James Buchanan through Public Memorialization
… increasingly innovative and elaborate forms of memorialization.
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Expectations of peace: documentation, memorialization, and construction of the archive in northern Uganda
<p>This thesis considers how documentation and memorialization initiatives curate historical narratives in contemporary northern Uganda since the collapse of the Juba peace talks in 2008. Taking the collapse of political settlement as my starting point while staying attuned to the history of …
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Mayibuye! Let Us Reclaim! Assessing the Role of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Rebuilding
… in scholarly and practitioner interests in memorialization and social memory studies. While memorialization initially gained social and political significance after the Holocaust, as it served as a symbol of recognition of the millions of victims, it gained increased recognition with the …
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The Politics of Memorialization: Creating a Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York City
<p>This study of how government intervention affects the implementation of a project of an interest group analyzes the political processes of the 45 year impasse in completing a major Holocaust memorial in New York City. Using as a case study the 1981-1991 effort to create such a project, the study …
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Tributes to the Past, Present, and Future: Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, 1914-1919
… in 1915 and to add to the study of memorialization as a historical process. Studying the design and language of monuments as well as dedication orations and newspaper coverage of unveiling ceremonies, this thesis focuses on Virginia's Confederate memorials to provide a case study for …
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Between remembrance and rebuilding : developing a consensus process for memorialization at the World Trade Center
… civic organizations that claim a stake in the memorialization and rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. During the first several months following the terrorist strikes, the absence of an inclusive decision-making process for remembrance and rebuilding at the World Trade Center site …
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Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing
… looks at the unique and inherent power of police memorialization through the 2015 death of officer Daniel Ellis of the Richmond, Kentucky police department and the subsequent actions of the surrounding community and state officials. The purpose of this study was to document the widespread visual …
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Reporting on the Holocaust in South Africa: An Examination of Press Coverage and Memorialization in the Aftermath of World War II
Until recently, little scholarly work has focused on the development of Holocaust memory in South Africa, particularly regarding the extent to which the Holocaust has been ‘domesticated' – refracted through a local lens – in this country. This dissertation seeks to add to a broader scholarly effort …
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A Voice for Public Memory: A Comparison Between the Memorial Practices in India and the United States of America to Propose a Suitable Response to the 26/11 Attacks in Mumbai
… that the country has had a rich tradition of memorialization. Through the research of the subjects of memorialization, their commissioners and the role of memorials in Indian communities, the thesis draws inferences on why memorialization is not currently popular culture in India. The thesis …
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From the Future Mended Body of a Child
… and theoretically evoke issues surrounding memorialization (the process of preserving and reencountering memory). Three foundational questions will scaffold the novel: How is memory constructed psychologically and narratologically? How is trauma represented in public sites of memorial? And, …
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‘Memento Mori’… Remember You Will Die: Memorializing the Dead in the Digital Age
… of this study is to investigate contemporary memorialization techniques involving both material and digital objects and chart the ephemera of hauntological perpetuity that drive modern-day memorialization choices and practices. Situating these modern-day techniques within the lineage of …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… psychological interventions and collective memorialization. It challenges the misconception of architectural preservation which is against human interaction as well as possibilities for future change. In other words, the historicization of past events should not only be manifested as the …
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Imagining Canada, imagining the desirable immigrant : immigration spectacle as settler postcolonialism
… (Anderson). Chapter 3 considers how the national memorialization of Pier 21 is enacted as much through settler forgetting and traumatic silences as it is through institutional memory (Renan). The memorialization of Pier 21 is framed as a contemporary actualisation of the colonial traces of early …
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Huddled Masses: Death and Citizenship in New York City
… lack of visitor access, and an absence of memorialization, all of which mark those buried on Hart Island as belonging to particular categories of people, less than full citizens. The deliberate nature of these processes indicates that the dead do not simply fall outside the bounds of …
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