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Ahlqvist, Emelie. "Commemorating the a(s)telier." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276787.

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This is a project on the topic of living and working and it consists of two parts. The first is a research thesis analyzing the development of the atelier typology from the 1860s until today. The second part is a proposal for a new architectural typology, that combines spaces for dwelling with those of production and labor. The project is set in Stockholm. My study shows a gradual loss of the concept of the atelier as a combined/multifaceted typology. Throughout the years studied, the place to produce has gradually separated itself from both the space of dwelling and the place of consumption. My interest lies in speculating on bringing them together again, in my proposal for a new architectural typology; the ’super villa garage’. To briefly conclude, I here identify the atelier as a place of convergence between cultural production and domestic life. A space that blurs the line between the two spheres and challenges the division of dwelling and labor. As a typology that shifts the boundaries between the private, the communal, and the public I believe that it has the potential to generate new ways of living and working, as well as give new possibilities for interaction and integration with local contexts.
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Dolan, A. "Commemorating the Irish Civil War, 1923-2000." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598583.

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To say what this thesis is is to say what it is not. It is not a history of the Irish Civil War. War is a past thing, a remembered or forgotten thing. The whys and the wherefores are taken for granted. It begins instead at the end of civil war. Secondly, it is not a study of republican memory. Republicanism has quite a singular approach to its dead. Death, there, is a simpler thing. Men die for Ireland; death is an inspiration complete the republican task. That is not to diminish its experience of civil war. It is instead to focus on the more troubled experience of remembering the Free State dead. The emphasis is not part of any elaborate exercise in rehabilitation. The question of what was and was not done in the woods in Kerry is not at issue here. The dead, or rather their commemoration, is the prime concern of this thesis; how the winners of a war no one wished to fight express whether there is of pride, sorrow, bitterness, triumphalism, shame. The Free State dead are merely the more evocative examples of this dilemma. After civil war can the winners honour their victory; can they commemorate it, can they hail their conquering heroes with the blood of their comrades still fresh on their boots? Or does civil war, by its very nature, demand silence? Should the winners cover themselves in shame, bow their heads and hope that the nation forgets 'our lamentable spasm of national madness'? What is a poor victorious state to do; all the time watched by a vigilant empire, all the time wary of an enemy which only stopped fighting but never surrounded its arms? It is this conflict of impulses, the tussle of memory and forgetting that is imperative here. Hence it is addressed at its most public point, at the very point at which it becomes part of the landscape, at the statutes and crosses, in the ritual and rhetoric of commemoration. Indeed it is at the foot of these cenotaphs and crosses that this thesis poses its central questions. What is particular about the memory of civil war? What is particular to the Irish example when Europe has inscribed its grief in lieux de mémoire? What is its legacy? Was the bitterness as deep as the silence would suggest or was it convenient, merely the means to more superficial party political ends?
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McMahon, Colin. "Quarantining the past, commemorating the great Irish famine on Grosse-Ile." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ64009.pdf.

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Stefanou, Eleni. "Aspects of identity and nationhood : commemorating, representing and replicating the Greek maritime past." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494688.

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Ushiyama, Rin. "Memory struggles : narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895.

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This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō between 1988 and 1995, which culminated in the gassing of the Tokyo subway system using sarin in March 1995. The Tokyo attack was the largest act of terrorism in post-war Japan. I combine qualitative methods of media analysis, interviews, and participant observation to analyse how different stakeholders have narrated and commemorated the Aum Affair. I propose ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural trauma’ to describe an event which is represented as harmful and indelible to collective memory and identity. In contrast to ‘cultural trauma’, which stresses the importance of symbolic representations of traumatic events, ‘collective trauma’ considers other ‘material’ processes – such as establishing facts, collective action, state responses, and litigation – which also contribute to trauma construction. My overarching argument is that various stakeholders – including state authorities, mass media, public intellectuals, victims, and former Aum believers – have constructed the Aum Affair as a collective trauma in multiple and conflicting ways. Many media representations situated Aum as an evil ‘cult’ which ‘brainwashed’ believers and intended to take over Japan through terror. State authorities also responded by treating Aum as a dangerous terrorist group. In some instances, these binary representations of Japan locked in a struggle against an evil force led to municipal governments violating the civil rights of Aum believers. Some individuals such as public intellectuals and former believers have challenged this divisive view by treating Aum as a ‘religion’, not a ‘cult’, and locating the root causes of Aum’s growth in Japanese society. Additionally, victims and former members have pursued divergent goals such as retributive justice, financial reparations, and social reconciliation through their public actions. A key conclusion of this dissertation is that whilst confronting horrific acts of violence may require social construction of collective trauma using cultural codes of good and evil, the entrenchment of these symbolic categories can result in lasting social tension and division.
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Reed, Bradford Lee. "Revitalizing a city by commemorating the past museum of industry & waterfront redevelopment, Norwich, Connecticut /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2168.

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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Bartels, Rusty Ray. "War Memories, Imperial Ambitions| Commemorating World War II in the US Pacific National Park System." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10165868.

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This project argues that the National Park Service (NPS) functions as an agent of the state in perpetuating American imperialism throughout the Pacific World through presenting WWII narratives of sacrifice as worthy of inclusion into the nation. These narratives, I argue, reinforce American occupation in islands and regions that have contested relations to the nation. This project is informed by scholarship in rhetorical criticism of public memory and in American Studies analyses of the nation as an empire. Methodologically, I have combined fieldwork at each park site and official public interpretive materials, with historical archives related to the formation, design, and management of the parks to understand the relationship between past and present. Part I of this project examines War in the Pacific National Historical Park in the American territory of Guam and American Memorial Park in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. I focus my argument here on how NPS narratives of WWII cannot be separated from historical and contemporary American military interests in the Mariana Islands and the Pacific World. Part II approaches the three units of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Hawai’i, Alaska, and California, with each state’s focus, development, and accessibility being appreciably different. I argue that all are concerned with the legacies of militarized land use and narratives of sacrifice for and belonging to the nation.

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Stone, Aaron H. ""Never forget" and "Never unite" : commemorating the Battle of the Somme in Northern Ireland, 1985-1997." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1318905.

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This thesis examines Protestant unionist commemorations of the Battle of the Somme in Northern Ireland during a phase in which they exhibited marked popularity and politicization. Filling a gap in the scholarship and building upon it, this thesis pays closer attention to the historical context and development of these commemorations and takes into account a broader swath of forms and locations of commemoration. It argues that, in the face of the perceived threat of Irish unification posed by the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, unionists employed the memory of the Somme as a political tool on two different but overlapping fronts. On one front, they used it against their collective opponents, who supported or supposedly supported Irish unification. On a second front, conflicting groups within the unionist community, namely unionist politicians, Orangemen, Protestant youths, and loyalist paramilitaries, interpreted the Somme differently to satisfy their partisan agendas. Analyzing Somme commemoration at the Belfast cenotaph, in parades, and in murals, this thesis provides explanations for why the Somme was remembered differently in various mediums and locales of commemoration, with particular attention to the differing degrees and manners in which Protestant commemorators recognized the Catholic contribution in the Somme campaign.
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McDowell, Sara. "Commemorating the Troubles : unravelling the representation of the contestation of memory in Northern Ireland since 1994." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445035.

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Quinn, Samantha. "Commemorating one hundred years of Italian unification : the 1961 centennial celebrations as they were held in Turin and Philadelphia." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.567596.

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This thesis analyses the meaning of unity and unification in post-war Italian life through a transnational study of the two great events staged for the celebration of one hundred years of Italian unification: Italia '61 and the Festival of Italy. Held in Turin, Italia '61 was the Italian national celebration and the overall purpose was to put on display the 'progress made in Italy in 100 years of national life' and to make a statement about Italy's place in the Cold War world order. To do so it comprised three major components: a Historical Exhibition, which traced a history of unification focused on the Risorgimento and the Resistance; a Regional Exhibition; and the International Labour Exhibition, which contained displays on work practices and conditions from twenty-one nations and international organisations. Across the Atlantic in Philadelphia, the Festival of Italy was the largest Italian centennial commemoration held outside Italy and it had been planned in conjunction with the Italia '61 organisers and collaboratively with the Italian American community in Philadelphia. The Festival's theme was 'lOO years of Progress' and the corresponding exhibitions and events emphasised the cultural richness of Italy, the high culture of Italy, the contribution of Italy and Italian culture and people to contemporary civilisation and in particular to the U.5., and the modernity of contemporary Italy. This thesis presents the argument that 1961 represents a change or turning point in the way identity was celebrated and so conceived in both Italy and among Italian American communities. The effects of the reconfiguration are identified through analysis of the national, international, intergovernmental, ethnic and transnational relationships in operation at Italia '61 and the Festival of Italy.
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Kemp, Helen. "Collecting, communicating, and commemorating : the significance of Thomas Plume's manuscript collection, left to his Library in Maldon, est. 1704." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20651/.

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This thesis is about networks in seventeenth-century England: the making and re-shaping of networks of people and texts, and the ways in which they evolved and transformed. It focuses on the manuscripts collected by Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), vicar of Greenwich and archdeacon of Rochester, who left them with a substantial body of books and pamphlets to the Library he endowed in Maldon. They take the form of notebooks and papers complied by a number of different clergymen, in particular Dr Robert Boreman (d.1675) and Dr Edward Hyde (1607-1659), in addition to Plume. The significance of the research lies in its reconstruction of the intellectual lives of the middle-status loyalist clergy through their handwritten texts. The research intervenes into debates about the nature and status of the manuscript form in an age of print and asks why these texts were left with the Library. The content and material form of these notebooks and papers evidence the reading and writing practices of the middle-status clergy, and the ways they were able to use their positions to influence and persuade on local and national levels. The main sections of the thesis encompass: a critical analysis of the manuscript collection; an examination of why the manuscripts were created and re-used; an appraisal of themes of identity, memorial, and legacy reflected within them; and the relationship between the handwritten items and printed books. This thesis argues that these seemingly-ephemeral texts were in fact the ‘heart’ of Plume’s library collection, representing a network of clergymen whose commitment to each other’s work extended as far as if they had been related by blood. Their working papers symbolised a memorial to their scholarship, saved for posterity under the shadow of destruction and loss during the Civil Wars.
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Keenan, Sharon K. Sommerlad. "The history of the Railroad of New Jersey Maritime Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey: commemorating its centennial 1889-1989." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42116.

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It was the purpose of this study to develop an accurate and detailed documented history of the CNJ Maritime Terminal. The study sought to answer specific questions concerning the historical, construction, and architectural significance of this structure to Jersey City, Hudson County and New Jersey.

The history includes the purpose for which the structure was built, why the site was chosen, how the terminus was built, how the structure was utilized, who used the facility, why the site underwent modernization, how the modernization was instituted, who were the architects for this building, why the structure was expanded, and what alterations have been made to this structure since the CNJ Railroad Company filed for bankruptcy in 1967. This history was developed after researching both primary and secondary sources. These sources included CNJ Railroad Annual Reports, CNJ Railroad Company Charters, Peabody & Sterns Original Architectural Drawings, personal journals and correspondences, maps, technical publications, photographs, illustrations, books, magazines, CNJ Engineering Department files, historical society collections, private collections, and direct observation.

The history of the CNJ Maritime Terminal, as developed within this study, comprises the historical documentation needed to secure more state funding so that the restoration for the historical site can be completed. The information can be of great value when used to justify the monies needed to complete this restoration.
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Pascual, Aransáez Cristina [Verfasser]. "The Role of the Reader in Oscar Wilde's Works : A Study Commemorating the 160th Anniversary of Oscar Wilde's Birth / Cristina Pascual Aransáez." München : GRIN Verlag, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1183918852/34.

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Yao, Ning [Verfasser], and Lothar [Akademischer Betreuer] Ledderose. "Commemorating the Deceased: Chinese Literati Memorial Painting - A Case Study of Wu Li's "Remembering the Past at Xingfu Chapel" (1672) / Ning Yao. Betreuer: Lothar Ledderose." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1061055043/34.

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Yao, Ning Verfasser], and Lothar [Akademischer Betreuer] [Ledderose. "Commemorating the Deceased: Chinese Literati Memorial Painting - A Case Study of Wu Li's "Remembering the Past at Xingfu Chapel" (1672) / Ning Yao. Betreuer: Lothar Ledderose." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-156375.

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Poon, Yan Chee. "Does music make coming home easier? : musical and sociological analyses of selected compositions commemorating the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2002. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/443.

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Johnson, Lesley Anne. "Commemorating the past : a critical study of the shaping of British and Arthurian history in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie, Wace's Roman de Brut, Lazamon's Brut and the alliterative Morte Arthure." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1990. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/commemorating-the-past--a-critical-study-of-the-shaping-of-british-and-arthurian-history-in-geoffrey-of-monmouths-historia-regum-britannie-waces-roman-de-brut-lazamons-brut-and-the-alliterative-morte-arthure(69e29fce-4401-4b4f-a58f-3b33f5656c19).html.

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Tripsa, Silvia Casandra. "The Value of Light in Contemporary Memorials : Understanding the needs of contemporary memorials and how they can be accomplished with light. Proposal of a light installation for commemorating the 1989 acticommunist Revolution in Timisoara." Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-221666.

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The master thesis is a research about the relationship between memorials and light. It first studies the characteristics of cultural memories and tries to find what the advantages of using lighting as a means of commemoration are. The nowadays memorials are very different compared to the traditional monuments and they should include a changing narrative, treating local and universal messages. They should involve the public.A contemporary memorial is ephemeral and continuously changing- the same as light is.A series of contemporary memorials have been selected to understand the tools that makes them successful. Furthermore, it was analyzed how these parameters could be achieved through light. 12 memorials that use light as an eloquent tool have been interpreted according to certain criteria.The second part of the thesis is an applied project related to the events that happened in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989 during the anticommunist Revolution. The process of creating memorials for Timisoara is a key focus of the study. The development is equally important as the end result. It searches for the significant messages and lessons of the event. Testimonials of the participants to the revolution have been studied. Interviews and questionnaires have been developed. Following this, significant places in the city and messages were chosen. The research will conclude with a lighting installations project proposal.
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Wilbur, Helen. "Commemoration and Curriculum:." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2008. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/240.

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The legacies of World War I in British culture are often explained by terms such as disillusionment and futility or by the understanding that the war shattered nineteenth century ideas of progress. These were not, however, the images of the war offered by the nation’s public and state sponsored secondary schools during the interwar years. By examining the categories of commemoration and curriculum, this study explores how British educational institutions mobilized the memory of the war in order to avoid cynicism and promote traditional forms of national, class, and gender identity. The first two chapters focus on how school memorials grew out of wartime communication within extended school communities in a way that privileged a heroic and traditional language of “high diction,” a concept developed by Paul Fussell. The following two chapters explore the ways in which discussions of how and why to teach history created a rhetoric of non-revolutionary citizenship and shaped portrayals of the war itself in a variety of British textbooks. Both processes elevated ideas including national and imperial patriotism, sportsmanship, self-sacrifice, personal and international leadership, and a continued faith in progress. This was initially accomplished by the exclusion of other possible narratives of the war, but the success of this interwar educational narrative was, in turn, undermined by subsequent economic and political events.
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Great-Rex, Eric James. "Commemoration and transitional objects." Thesis, University of East London, 2013. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3453/.

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My strategy has been to use the aesthetics of crafted familiar decorative domestic objects to draw the viewer in and set up certain expectations which are then confounded or challenged as the work undermines the initial propositions, creating a tension between the visual language employed and the underlying content. These works are created in series so that I can investigate a range of themes including love, identity and notions of the ‘self’. I have also included a chapter called ‘creative mistakes’ that documents works which have informed my practice but have not been fully developed during the Doctorate Programme.
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Morgan, Jo-anne Mary. "Arboreal Eloquence: Trees and Commemoration." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1990.

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This thesis is about the use of trees for commemoration and the memory that they have anchored in the landscape. There has been little written on the use of trees for commemorative purposes despite its symbolic resonance over the last 150 years. To determine the extent to which commemorative trees have been employed, the social practice and context in which the trees were planted, field and archival work was undertaken in New Zealand and Australia. This has been supported with some comparative work using examples from Britain and the United States of America. The research also utilizes the new availabilities of records on-line and the community interests that placed historical and contemporary material on-line. The commemorative tree has been a popular commemorative marker for royal events, the marking of place and as memorial for war dead. It has been as effective an anchor of memory in the landscape as any other form. The memory ascribed to these trees must be understood in terms of the era in which the tree was planted and not just from a distance. Over time the memory represented by the trees and its prescribed meanings, has changed. For all its power and fragility, memory is not permanent but nor is it so ephemeral as to exhibit no robustness at all. Instead memory exists in a state of instability that leaves it open to challenge and to constant reassessment based on the needs of the viewing generation. This instability also allows the memory, and thus the tree, to fade and become part of the domestic landscape of treescape memories (Cloke and Pawson, 2008). However, in some circumstances trees are retrieved and reinscribed with specific memory and made relevant for a new generation. The landscape created by commemorative trees is, therefore, multifunctional, in which social relations support memory, remembrance, forgetting, silences, erasures, and memory slippage.
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Azizbeyli, Zehra. "Cultures of commemorations in Cyprus." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699667.

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This research concerns the processes and practices of commemoration in Cyprus and how they impact the construction of Cypriot politics in both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities in Cyprus. I engage the study of politics of memory, which can also be explained as the struggle between the dominant ethno-nationalist commemorations and alternative commemorations on both sides of the divide. I deconstruct the practices of commemoration used by the various political regimes for nationalist purposes. I seek to uncover, through qualitative research methods, the alternative cultures of commemoration that are being developed in the name of peace, coexistence and reconciliation. Interviews and observations are used as part of the ethnographic analysis in order to understand how public commemorations take place and are understood in different sites of Cyprus where commemorative rituals occur. Discourse analysis is also used as a method for the analysis of commemorative texts and as a way of approaching and thinking about a problem expressed in scholarly or educational texts and media statements. A literature review on the politics of commemoration shows how the past is collectively remembered, shaped and revised under the guidance of the ruling class to benefit one group over the other as part of the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society. The thesis focuses the landscape of a key public space in the divided capital city of Nicosia, through web-memorializing with the aid of photography and through poems. A concluding chapter considers the power of alternative commemorations and the different possibilities that they can lead to the politics in the future of Cyprus.
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Karels, Martina. "Performing remembrances of 9/11." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31269.

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The attacks of 11 September 2001 have had a profound impact for many, altering lives, perceptions, politics and policies. The last decade saw the construction of numerous memorials commemorating the events across the United States. Most prominent is the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City at Ground Zero. Highly contested in its planning and building stages, the memorial site was designed to be a national symbol of mourning, remembrance and resiliency, and has since become one of the city's most popular tourist attractions. This thesis casts the matter of memorialising 9/11 as a performance of remembering. It utilises an analytical frame that draws from theoretical resources of collective memory and performance studies to examine how and by whom public remembrances of the event are framed, performed and maintained. Theories of social remembering render it an active process. A performance lens used analytically allows for a recognition of commemorative practices not as a mode of representation, but rather as a doing, (en)acting and interacting in the moment. By understanding public remembrance as performance, this thesis explores the implications of thinking about public memory in those terms. Through ethnographic methods the research unpacks the doing of public memory in three scenarios, each with their own setting and cast of characters, and interprets how, if and when individuals subscribe to the public and/or official memory of the events being memorialised. The first is set at the 9/11 memorial. Although the performances at the memorial site occur in an institutionalised, scripted and choreographed environment, the bodily (en)acting of and at the site can shift complex boundaries and commemorative narratives. The second provides the example of commemorative walking/ running events as performed remembering. These public processions are ritual-like (re)enactments that solidify and reaffirm the politicised national commemorative master narrative of 9/11. Lastly, the annual ritual of commemoration on the anniversary of 9/11 highlights and intensifies the separation of official and vernacular public memory and shows how in both settings organisers and actors utilise embodied performance strategies to gain or regain visibility in the public sphere.
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Dibosa, David. "Reclaiming remembrance : art, shame and commemoration : a study of the role of shame in commemorative acts performed by artists and writers from culturally-differentiated communities in London from 1989 to 2004." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429112.

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Lebel, Udi. "Private versus public heroes : politics of commemoration." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/private-versus-public-heroes--politics-of-commemoration(4fcdfc90-0e70-4f93-bb59-71a14b199137).html.

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Fisher, Carl Francis. "Early Darwinian commemoration in Britain, 1882-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269789.

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This dissertation recounts the commemoration of Charles Darwin in Britain from his death in 1882 to his birth centenary in 1909. As a broadly chronological and episodic history, individual memorials are considered in themselves, in relation to others, and in their national and local contexts. In this way, they are shown to have been informed by contemporary scientific 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 publicists or passive consumers, but as interpreters of Darwin’s memory who brought their own concerns to his commemoration. Darwin’s funeral, at Westminster Abbey, was widely accepted as a national endorsement of his social respectability, and, by extension, that of a burgeoning scientific profession which organised it. Further to this first posthumous elevation, and appropriation, of Darwin, subsequent presentations were informed by contemporary literary developments, and particularly the sudden decline in the posthumous reputation of Thomas Carlyle, which reflected changing attitudes to long-established ‘heroic’ tradition. As such, the production, reception and mobilisation of Darwinian biography (primarily his Life and Letters and its subsequent editions and sequels) recognised these recent literary concerns and further contributed to Darwin’s elevation as a personal and scientific exemplar. The ways in which Darwin’s reputation was elaborated and used are recovered at a range of sites of Darwinian significance, most notably Edinburgh, Cambridge, Shrewsbury, Oxford and London. Encompassing metropolitan, provincial, institutional and civic commemoration, accompanying periodical reportage, commentary and memorialisation is also considered. Common to the majority of these productions, Darwin’s theory of natural selection was criticised, contradicted or ignored. Nevertheless, the esteem in which the celebrated naturalist was held was to grow in inverse proportion to the reputation of his famous theory. Against this background, an extended memorial season peaked in the summer of 1909 at the Darwin Celebration at the University of Cambridge. That grandiose occasion echoed and developed themes which were well recorded in preceding commemorations, both ceremonially and in the periodical press. Consequently, man and work were brought into closer relation with a widely-expressed interest in the origins of his apparently exceptional abilities and character. The great naturalist was celebrated as a hereditary, as well as a moral and intellectual, exemplar. This development was supported by the new findings of Mendelian biology and Darwin’s memorial association with advancing eugenic activism. For the first time attending to his early ‘afterlife’ in Britain, this account traces the interaction of Darwin’s commemoration not only with the emerging biological sciences, but also with wider preoccupations concerning secularisation, democratisation and reform across the decades either side of the turn of the twentieth century. Ultimately, Darwin’s early memorialisation can be apprehended as a scientific activity in itself, contributing to professional, disciplinary and theoretical developments in the biological sciences.
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Hale, David. "Death and commemoration in late medieval Wales." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2018. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/death-and-commemoration-in-late-medieval-wales(7d14b42e-a69b-4968-9398-aad3b96748e0).html.

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This study examines the attitudes to, and commemoration of, death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in Europe. Although there are a number of memorial tombs and some evidence of religious visual art in Wales which has survived from the late medieval period, in comparison with that to be found in many other European countries, this is often neither so commonplace nor so imposing. However, the poetry produced during this period very much reflects the visual material that was produced in other parts of Europe. The poetry shows that the Welsh gentry at that time were familiar with many of the themes surrounding death and commemoration so obvious in European visual art such as the macabre and the fate of both the body and the soul after death. With war, famine and disease being so commonplace during the Middle Ages, and the late medieval period witnessing the effects of the Black Death, it is, perhaps, little wonder that macabre imagery and concerns about the fate of the soul were so often produced in European visual art of the time. These concerns are reflected in the Welsh poetry of the period with several poets composing quite vivid poetry describing the fate of the body as a decomposing corpse after death or allusions to the personification of Death appearing to claim its victims. The tension that many felt between the role of God on Judgement Day and God as Redeemer is also apparent in a number of the poems composed at this time. This study shows how important the role of the poet was amongst the gentry in Wales during the late medieval period, a role which ensured that the patrons of the poets were immortalised in words rather than by physical memorials. It also highlights the importance of poetical works of the period as an important primary source for historical research. Many of the poems give a contemporaneous account of important events of the period such as symptoms of plague victims which confirm that the Black Death was indeed the bubonic form of the plague.
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Andersson, Ann-Catrin. "Identity politics and city planning : the case of Jerusalem." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-16371.

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Jerusalem is the declared capital of Israel, fundamental to Jewish tradition, and a contested city, part of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Departing from an analysis of mainly interviews and policy documents, this study aims to analyze the interplay between the Israeli identity politics of Jerusalem and city planning. The role of the city is related to discursive struggles between traditional, new, and post-Zionism. One conclusion is that the Israeli claim to the city is firmly anchored in a master commemorative narrative stating that Jerusalem is the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel. A second conclusion is that there is a constant interplay between Israeli identity politics, city policy, and planning practice, through specific strategies of territoriality. The goals of the strategies are to create a political, historical and religious, ethnic, economic, and exclusive capital. Planning policies are mainly focused on uniting the city through housing projects in East Jerusalem, rehabilitating historic heritage, ancestry, and landscapes, city center renewal, demographic balance, and economic growth, mainly through tourism and industrial development. An analysis of coping strategies shows that Jerusalem planners relate to identity politics by adopting a self-image of being professional, and by blaming the planning system for opening up to ideational impact. Depending on the issue, a planner adopts a reactive role as a bureaucrat or an expert, or an active role, such mobilizer or an advocate. One conclusion drawn from the “Safdie Plan” process is that traditional Zionism and the dominant collective planning doctrine are being challenged. An alliance of environmental movements, politicians from left and right, and citizens, mobilized a campaign against the plan that was intended to develop the western outskirts of Jerusalem. The rejection of the plan challenged the established political leadership, it opened up for an expansion to the east, and strengthened Green Zionism, but the result is also a challenge to the housing needs of Jerusalem.
Författaren tillhör även "Forskarskolan Urbana och Regionala Studier – Städer och regioner i förändring"
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Montez, Noe Wesley. "Staging post-memories commemorative Argentine theatre 1989-2003 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380115.

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Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 14, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4529. Adviser: Rakesh H. Solomon.
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Vartabedian, Sarah Balthrop V. William. "Commemoration of an assassin representing the Armenian Genocide /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1338.

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Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Communication." Discipline: Communication Studies; Department/School: Communication Studies.
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Pina, Almeida Jose Carlos. "Commemorations of Portugal : national identity and public celebration." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369870.

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Kotila, Heikki Tapani. "Memoria mortuorum : commemoration of the departed in Augustine." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357821.

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Smith, Michael. "Death, mourning and commemoration in 19th century Edinburgh." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555979.

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Abousnnouga, Naiema Gillian. "Visual and written discourses of British commemorative war monuments." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/29737/.

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This thesis analyses commemorative war monuments using a social semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects, considering their design alongside contextual information. Taking a social semiotic approach to the study of commemorative war monuments, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design.
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Danilova, Nataliya. "Contemporary trends in war commemoration : the UK and Russia." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.575480.

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In many countries governments, the military and the public are annually engaged in the commemoration of fallen soldiers of the World Wars and of recent conflicts. This study compares changes in the commemoration of fallen soldiers in a democratic and an authoritarian society (the UK and Russia). It considers this process in terms of a social contract between the military and society, and discusses its broader political and societal implications. The research is focused on the period from the late 1980s onwards. This time-frame is chosen to investigate contemporary changes in national styles of commemoration. Throughout the thesis, the analysis uncovers general trends in this process and explores in detail the commemoration of British soldiers who died in the Falklands War (1982), Gulf War (1990- 1991), Iraq (2003-2009) and Afghanistan (2001-present) and the commemoration of Russian soldiers killed in the Soviet Afghan War (1979-1989) and in the First and Second campaigns in Chechnya (1994- 1996, 1999-2009). In both cases, the thesis examines three sites of memory that mediate discourses and practices of the commemoration (i.e. media coverage of military campaigns, new war memorials, and national ceremonies of remembrance). The original contribution of the thesis lies in two areas: the conceptualisation of contemporary commemoration from the perspective of civil-military relations, and a systematic empirical comparison of this process in two countries. The findings of this research reveal a shift across both societies from war- to a service-orientated commemoration which comes into being with the increasing complexity and controversy of modem warfare. Also, the analysis demonstrates that the commemoration of fallen soldiers in both countries serves as an instrument of popularising national values and mobilising public support for the armed forces, and military operations. In Britain, this result is achieved through the discourse of a 'support for heroes' who fought in Afghanistan. In Russia, the public is mobilised through a broad call to be proud of victory in the Second World War and to give unconditional support for the government political course.
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Varley, Karine Nathalie. "French commemoration of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1914." Thesis, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405878.

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Duffy, Xavier Sean. "Monuments, memory and place : commemorations of the Persian Wars." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6727/.

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This thesis is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily the classical period, collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. The data studied within this project are public monuments, which include both physical and behavioural commemorations. A quantitative methodology is employed within this thesis and is a novel approach by which to study Persian War public monuments. This method of analysis allows for a more holistic approach to the data. Through analysing commemorative monuments quantitatively this project, figuratively, re-joins object and context. Studies on Persian War commemoration tend to focus on singular monument types, individual commemorative places, a particular commemorating group, or a specific battle. To think plurally about the ancient Greek commemorative tradition is to refocus attention on the whole incorporating all known commemorative monuments, places, and groups. What emerges from this study is a varied commemorative tradition expressed over space and time. Commemoration of conflict is presented here as a process of exchange, a dialogue between the past and the present. This thesis challenges the idea that a unified pan-Hellenic memory of the Persian Wars existed from the culmination of the conflict and illustrates the varied collective memories and narratives that could be created about the past.
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Cameron, Hannah M. "Contesting the Commemorative Narrative: Planning for Richmond’s Cultural Landscape." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5480.

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Abstract: New Orleans, Baltimore, and Charlottesville are reevaluating the presence of Confederate statues in their built environment. Known as the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond’s cultural landscape is visible through the connection of two historical spaces, Monument Avenue and Shockoe Bottom. Both serve as a powerful case study for how the commemorative narrative of these spaces is contested today and how barriers that exist influence urban planning processes and outcomes.
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Steer, Christian Oliver. "Burial and commemoration in medieval London, c.1140-1540." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606287.

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Lavoie, Denis. "Commemoration of national heritage : institutional practices and legitimising strategies." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31139.

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The writer discusses various strategies that heritage bureaucrats and heritage commodifiers, acting as the main agents in the field, present to justify the importance they are granted in the commemoration of national heritage. Heritage bureaucrats and heritage commodifiers claim legitimacy from staging heritage activities that are recognized as such by the public in audience and for being legally authorized to do so. Both also resort to invectives and analogies to consolidate their position, or deny their competitors the right to be there. Heritage commodifiers claim that their productions bring wealth to society. In turn, wealth secures political unity, social consensus, and meanings for all to share. Heritage, a property in the public ownership, can be made to profit as if it were private property - a patrimony, and cultural resources can be traded as commodities. Heritage brings wealth to commodifiers, to those who agree with the idea of making heritage pay, as they transform their investments into symbolic capital - the right to define reality in the field and in society, and to have others abide by their definitions. Bureaucrats are entrusted with the management of the City's heritage resources because of their proven expertise in the field, and their commitment to the democratic process that managing the public wealth implies. Heritage bureaucrats create traditions, exemplary characters and meanings which they put on display as if they were fetishes. Failing to sustain their claim to effectiveness and efficiency, they revert to the field's most ancient tradition, and stage heritage celebrations as if they were religious commemorations. The writer takes after Bourdieu, Weber and Balandier, amongst others, to define the true nature of heritage commemoration through practices and strategies. His main sources are official publications and heritage productions from Canadian Heritage organisations.
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Finch, Jonathan. "Church monuments in Norfolk and Norwich before 1850 : a regional study in medieval and post-medieval material culture." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338046.

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Trail, Susan W. "Remembering Antietam commemoration and preservation of a Civil War battlefield /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2353.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Aloszko, Stefan Ludwik. "Auschwitz : art, commemoration and memorialisation : from 1940 to the present." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1194.

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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. Following a review of the literature in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 examines the production of works of art by the inmates of the camp. That art should have been produced at all in Auschwitz may conflict with our expectations, given the conditions of life within the camp. Nevertheless, art was as necessary in Auschwitz as it is elsewhere. The present account of the making of art under such difficult circumstances attempts to make a significant addition to the established narratives of Auschwitz. The post-war development of Auschwitz as a site-specific museum, established to commemorate the victims of the camp almost as soon as the site was liberated in 1945, permits analysis of techniques utilized by the museum authorities to display artefacts in order to narrate the story of Auschwitz. This is the subject of Chapter 3. For a period, the site was used by successive Polish political administrations to construct and bind Polish national identity to Russian political demands. The act of memorialisation has been shaped by political requirements almost throughout Auschwitz’s post-war history. The determinant of recognition for memorial purposes was national identity. The use of overtly religious iconography, whether Christian or Jewish, was severely limited. Communist governments defined all victims as political, and specifically as victims of the struggle against Nazism. These political considerations affected the inconclusive 1957 memorial competition. This competition, and its political contexts, is described in Chapters 4 and 5. In 1968 the Polish government began an anti-Semitic campaign that provoked international condemnation. Chapter 6 surveys these events, and describes one significant outcome, the establishment at the site of what was known locally as the Jewish pavilion. Finally, in Chapter 7, I draw together the three overriding concepts of art, commemoration and memorialisation – the predominant themes of this discussion – in order to show how the conception of Auschwitz has moved beyond the physical boundaries of the historical site. The question of what the site itself means, or should mean, remains a matter of continuing debate. The narrative of memorialisation at Auschwitz becomes increasingly marked by single events such as the establishment of the Jewish Pavilion, each embodying the turn towards the recognition that what should be remembered lies beyond nationality, and is separate from the contingent politics of the post-war settlement. Behind this, however, lies a further and more important narrative: that at every point in its history Auschwitz was intrinsically and inescapably a Jewish experience. This subsumes the particularities of the slow realization that this is what the site should celebrate. This thesis is committed to embodying this overarching narrative, and aspects of it can be found throughout, in every chapter.
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Clifford, Rebecca. "Creating Official Holocaust Commemorations in France and Italy, 1990-2005." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491563.

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How do nations confront shameful episodes from their pasts? How and why are such events collectively remembered or forgotten? This thesis explores these broad questions through a comparative study of official holocaust commemorations in Italy and France.
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Faunch, Christine Jennie Margaret. "Church monuments and commemoration in Devon c.1530-c.1640." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244420.

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Buckham, Susan. "Meeting one's maker : commemoration and consumer choice in York Cemetery." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2453/.

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Widrich, Mechtild. "Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54554.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The performative monument, as I term an emergent genre of interactive public actions, rests on a new notion of agency in public space, in which political responsibility is performed by historically aware individuals in acts of commemoration. This dissertation argues that public performance art starting in the 1960s provided a crucial impulse for new forms of commemoration in 1980s Europe and beyond. I claim that performance, a supposed antipode to the monument in its ephemerality and dematerialization, did not neutralize the monumental but reinvented it as a new practice: one that involved the audience explicitly through conventional transactions, best understood through the speech-act theory of J. L. Austin (who coined the term "performative" in the 1950s). To specify the correlation between performance and monumental public space, I draw attention to the empirical shift from performance to monument production in the work of postwar Central and Eastern European artists, and to the theoretical continuity that makes this shift possible. Monumental architecture played a role in the early performances of Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys, Jochen Gerz (all German), Valie Export, Peter Weibel, and Giinter Brus (Austrians), Marina Abramovid and Braco Dimitrijevid (from former Yugoslavia), among others. These artists brought a performative component to the memorial culture of the 1980s and '90s, mediating between history and the individual in ways sketched by the ephemeral events of '60s and '70s performance.
(cont.) I examine these interconnections in the passage from confrontation to commemoration through a variety of heterogeneous but related documents: photographs and eyewitness accounts of early performance; interviews and press accounts that evolved their own logic and myths over the years separate from the events; plans and drawings of unrealized monuments, and that most complicated and characteristic form of 'performative documentation,' photographs modified through drawing, painting, or collage techniques to involve their viewers in a collaborative re-imagining of the role of commemoration in public space.
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Weeks, Eric C. "Memory and Meaning: Constructed Commemoration in a Nation's Capital City." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1353549838.

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Elżanowski, Jerzy. "Ruin conversions : violence, architecture and commemoration in post-1944 Warsaw." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50265.

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Cook, Katherine. "New world memory : identity, commemoration, and family in transatlantic communities." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13492/.

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This thesis examines the ways in which British and Caribbean commemorative practices were shaped to construct and negotiate identities, relationships and experiences in the colonial era, reacting and contributing to transformations in social structure, global mobility and local communities. Based on a multi-site analysis of cemeteries in Barbados and Britain from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, it examines the connections between colony and metropole, family, and memory by weaving together microhistorical and transatlantic narratives of expansion, interaction, and conflict. Traditionally, colonial histories have favoured European- and male-dominated narratives of exploration, administration, and military, while neglecting other major components of society, including family – the fundamental social unit at the time. Cemeteries and monuments provide the opportunity to develop alternative narratives because they have historically acted as venues through which to establish and promote identity. As the material manifestations of practice, emotion, exchange, fashion, environment, and economics, commemorative monuments embody family traditions, experiences and relationships. In considering the role of cemeteries in short-term memory construction and long-term cultural processes, the interconnected nature of the development and negotiation of British, African and Creole family identity and community heritage can be studied in unprecedented ways. This is the only systematic study connecting British experiences and memory practices on either side of the Atlantic and the first large-scale examination of post-emancipation funerary practices of African-descendant communities in a British colony. The transformation of family self-representation, engagement in society, connection to place, and concepts of race, status, and position highlights the changing relationships between tradition, memory, and society, and the continuing impact of historical landscapes on contemporary understandings of the past. The results of this research contribute both to emerging Atlantic studies of cultural interaction and global connections, as well as broader discussions of material culture and landscape in the production and negotiation of memory and heritage.
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