Conflict Landscapes Materiality And Meaning In Contested Places | Archaeology

Conflict Landscapes explores the long under-acknowledged and under-investigated aspects of where and how modern conflict landscapes interact and conjoin with pre-twentieth-century places activities and beliefs as well as with individuals and groups. Investigating and understanding the often unpredictable power and legacies of landscapes that have seen (and often still viscerally embody) the consequences of mass death and destruction the book shows through these landscapes the power of destruction to preserve refocus and often reconfigure the past. Responding to the complexity of modern conflict the book offers a coherent integrated and sensitized hybrid approach which calls on different disciplines where they overlap in a shared common terrain. Dealing with issues such as memory identity emotion and wellbeing the chapters tease out the human experience of modern conflict and its relationship to landscape. Conflict Landscapes will appeal to a wide range of disciplines involved in studying conflict such as archaeology anthropology material culture studies art history cultural history cultural geography military history and heritage and museum studies. |Conflict Landscapes Materiality and Meaning in Contested Places | Archaeology