ABSTRACT
Journalists, humanitarians, intellectuals, workers, military and diplomatic staff, publishers, and schoolteachers were all, when the war began, connected through several international networks. The concept of mediation and the role of mediators are central to capture these global interactions, as well as to provide a collective narrative, in a time marked by rupture and commonality of experience. Mediations are, thus, analysed as sites of representation and transformation of transnational cultural interactions which occurred during the First World War. “Mediations” and “mediators” see and understand the impact from Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, and China. More than ever, change was an inevitable part of the human condition, making it impossible to debate the Great War’s “mediations” and “mediators” without referring to the combined effects of the mobility of people, goods, and ideas from a global transcultural perspective. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
