Conflict and the Australian commemorative landscape
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Article Title | Conflict and the Australian commemorative landscape |
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ERA Journal ID | 210554 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Bedford, Alison (Author), Gehrmann, Richard (Author), Kerby, Martin (Author) and Baguley, Margaret (Author) |
Journal Title | Historical Encounters |
Journal Citation | 8 (3), pp. 13-26 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | University of Newcastle |
Place of Publication | Newcastle, Australia |
ISSN | 2203-7543 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.52289/hej8.302 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.hej-hermes.net/8-302 |
Abstract | Australian war memorials have changed over time to reflect community sentiments and altered expectations for how a memorial should look and what it should commemorate. The monolith or cenotaph popular after the Great War has given way to other forms of contemporary memorialisation including civic, counter or anti-memorials or monuments. Contemporary memorials and monuments now also attempt to capture the voices of marginalised groups affected by trauma or conflict. In contrast, Great War memorials were often exclusionary, sexist and driven by a nation building agenda. Both the visibility and contestability of how a country such as Australia pursues public commemoration offers rich insights into the increasingly widespread efforts to construct an inclusive identity which moves beyond the cult of the warrior and the positioning of war as central to the life of the nation. |
Keywords | Australian history, commemoration, Frontier Wars, Great War, Second World War, War Memorial |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430302. Australian history |
Byline Affiliations | School of Education |
School of Humanities and Communication | |
Open access url | https://www.hej-hermes.net/8-302 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6z6z/conflict-and-the-australian-commemorative-landscape
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