ABSTRACT
Conflict Landscapes explores the long under-acknowledged and under-investigated aspects of where and how modern conflict landscapes interact and conjoin with pre-twentieth-century places, activities, and beliefs, as well as with individuals and groups.
Investigating and understanding the often unpredictable power and legacies of landscapes that have seen (and often still viscerally embody) the consequences of mass death and destruction, the book shows, through these landscapes, the power of destruction to preserve, refocus, and often reconfigure the past. Responding to the complexity of modern conflict, the book offers a coherent, integrated, and sensitized hybrid approach, which calls on different disciplines where they overlap in a shared common terrain. Dealing with issues such as memory, identity, emotion, and wellbeing, the chapters tease out the human experience of modern conflict and its relationship to landscape.
Conflict Landscapes will appeal to a wide range of disciplines involved in studying conflict, such as archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies, art history, cultural history, cultural geography, military history, and heritage and museum studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|180 pages
The First World War
chapter 5|22 pages
Controversy in the Julian Alps
chapter 6|16 pages
First World War landscapes on the Alpine front line
chapter 9|18 pages
Life and death in a conflict landscape
part II|128 pages
The Second World War
chapter 10|19 pages
Who owns the ‘wilderness’?
chapter 11|19 pages
Operation Northern Light
chapter 12|20 pages
Power of place and landscape
chapter 13|19 pages
War in the Normandy bocage
chapter 14|14 pages
Archaeology, D-Day, and the Battle of Normandy
chapter 15|19 pages
‘An example of Nazi kultur’
chapter 16|16 pages
Campscapes and homescapes of the mind’s eye
part III|68 pages
Beyond world wars