Contested Spaces

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 Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His forthcoming publications include Seduction or Instruction: First World War Posters in Britain and Europe (Manchester University Press) and he is currently curating a major exhibition of Twentieth century war posters from the collection of the Imperial War Museum to be held in 2007
GRAHAM DAWSON is a cultural historian at the University of Brighton, UK, whose research has focused on the inter-relation of cultural memory, narrative and identity, and the memory of war in modernity. He is author of Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (London and New York, 1994), and a co-editor and contributor to Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors, and Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory (both Piscataway, New Jersey, 2004). He is currently completing a book on cultural memory, the Irish Troubles and the peace process for Manchester University Press.

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