Examining the memorialscape of occupation and liberation: a case study from the Channel Islands |
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Authors: | Gillian Carr |
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Institution: | 1. St Catharine’s College , Cambridge , UK gcc20@hermes.cam.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This paper introduces the concept of the ‘memorialscape’ as a tool for studying the inter-relationship of memorials within a single rural or urban environment or landscape. Using a case study of the British Channel Islands, where the number of memorials relating to the German occupation of 1940–1945 has increased greatly since 1985 (the 40th anniversary of liberation), I examine the active role these memorials have played in changing the occupation narrative of the islands. This paper will also explore the importance of memorial marginality and centrality; memorial inter-visibility; the difference between the memorialscape of the capital towns of Guernsey and Jersey and the groups they commemorate; and the narrative that the resulting memorialscape produces. |
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Keywords: | memorials memorialscape occupation liberation Channel Islands counter-memory |
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