Acts of heritage,acts of value: memorialising at the Chattri Indian Memorial,UK |
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Authors: | Susan L. T. Ashley |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Arts, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UKsusan.ashley@northumbria.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | AbstractThe Chattri Indian Memorial is a public site that hosts and embodies heritage in complex ways. Standing on the edge of Brighton, UK in a once-remote part of the Sussex Downs, the Memorial was built in 1921 to honour Indian soldiers who fought on the Western Front during the First World War. As both a sacred place and a space of socio-cultural heritagization processes, the monument is an enduring testament of past values of war heroism, but also more ephemeral practices of ritual. The article documents the heritage-making at work within memorialisation at the Chattri as a case study, examining how differing ‘valuations’ of a memorial site can be enacted through time, between material form and immaterial practices, and across cultures. The article theorises participants’ current affective practices as conscious ‘past presencing’ , and analyses how their conscious acts of heritage-making affectively enacted values of morality, community and belonging. |
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Keywords: | Heritagization memorialisation outside-in past presencing heritage-making affect Chattri Memorial |
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