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Contested Spaces
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Foreword; H.Zangana Abu Ghraib and the state of America: defining images; P.Hagopian Contested Mobilities and the Spatial Topography of Jerusalem; W.Pullan Altered States: The US-Mexico Borderlands as 'Third Nation'; M.Dear & J.Holzer Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconcilation; D.Lisle Burying the Hatchet? The Post-Combat Appropriation of Battlefield Spaces; T.Pollard 'The Truth that Will Set Us All Free': An Uncertain History of Memorials to Indigenous Australians; P.Read Competing Pasts: A Comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic Remembrance in two Berlin Memorial Sites; G.Knischewski & U.Spittler Memory, What's it Good For? Forced Labour, Blockhouses and Museums in Pas de Calais, Northern France; J.Aulich 'No-one Has Allowed Me to Cry': Trauma, Memorialization and Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda; S.Field 'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh Maze; C.McLaughlin

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MICHAEL DEAR Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA SEAN FIELD Centre for Popular Memory and the Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa PATRICK HAGOPIAN Lecturer in American Studies, Lancaster University JACQUELINE HOLZER Doctoral student in the Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA GERD KNISCHEWSKI Senior Lecturer in German Politics, University of Portsmouth, UK DEBBIE LISLE School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, UK CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, the University of Ulster, UK TONY POLLARD Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK WENDY PULLAN Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK PETER READ Deputy Director of National Centre for Indigenous Studies, the Australian National University ULLA SPITTLER Principal Lecturer in German, University of Brighton, UK HAIFA ZANGANA Painter, writer and author of Through the Vast Halls of Memory

About the Author

LOUISE PURBRICK is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK. She is author of The Architecture of Containment in D. Wylie, The Maze (Granta, 2004) and, with John Schofield and Axel Klausmeier, editor of Re-Mapping the Field: New Approaches to Conflict Archaeology (Westkreuz-Verlag, 2006). She also works on the material culture of everyday life and has written The Wedding Present: Domestic Life beyond Consumption (Ashgate, 2007) JIM AULICH is Reader in Visual Culture and is based in Manchester Institute of Research in Art and

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'Raises important questions about the materiality of place as expressed through memory, interpretation, representation, narrative and preservation. In looking at physical and psychological landscapes shaped by violence, this book is never glib: contradictions are intelligently drawn out and sensitively discussed.' - Museums Journal

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