The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
War cemeteries: Rhetoric
Ebel, J. 2012
‘Overseas military cemeteries as American sacred space: mine eyes have seen la gloire’, Material Religion, 8:2, 183-214.
Figal, G. 2007
‘Bones of contention: the geopolitics of “sacred ground” in postwar Okinawa’, Diplomatic History, 31:1, 81-109.
Janz, N. 2017
‘From battlegrounds to burial grounds – the cemetery landscapes of the German Army during the Second World War’, in F. Jacob & S. Danielsson (eds) War and Geography: The Spatiality of Organized Mass Violence, Brill Schöningh, 147-162.
Janz, N. 2022
‘The politics of graves – negotiations, practice and reactions about fallen German soldiers of World War Two and their resting places in Russia’, in J. Rydel & S. Troebst (eds) Instrumentalizing the Past: The Impact of History on Contemporary International Conflicts, Institute of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, 133-146.
Malone, H. 2022
‘The fallen soldier as fascist exemplar: military cemeteries and dead heroes in Mussolini’s Italy’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64:1, 34-62.
Malone, H. 2022
‘Feeling political in military cemeteries: commemoration politics in Fascist Italy’, in U. Frevert, K. Pahl, F. Buscemi & 8 others (eds) Feeling Political: Emotions and Institutions since 1789, Palgrave Macmillan.
Natali, C. 2008
‘Building cemeteries, constructing identities: funerary practices and nationalistic discourse among the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka’, Contemporary South Asia, 16:3, 287-301.
Prost, A. 2011
‘The military cemeteries of the Great War, 1914-1940’, Le Mouvement Social, 4, 237, 135-151.
Keywords
Robin, R. 1995
‘“A foothold in Europe”: the aesthetics and politics of American war cemeteries in Western Europe’, Journal of American Studies, 29, pp55-72.
Robin, R. & Strath, B. (eds) 2003
‘The necropolitics of homeland. The role of tombs and village cemeteries in the Middle East Conflict’, in R. Robin & B. Strath (eds.), Homelands: Poetic Power and the Politics of Space, Brussels: Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes, 209-219.
