Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
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Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
paul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme..235-258Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.Professor Paul GoughUniversity of the West of England. BristolFrenchayBristolBS16pau I - gOU gh (<■ u we ,ac ■ ti kIpaul.gough4Tuwc .3C.ukABSTRACTThe Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a 16.5 hectare (40 acr Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.es) tract of preserved battleground dedicated to the memory of the r1 Newfoundland Regiment who suffered an extremely high percentage of casualties duSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
ring the first day of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Beaumont Hamel Memorial is an extremely complex landscape of commemoration where Newfoundlpaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. and subsequently re-ordered its topography, helped to contrive a particular historical narrative that prioritised certain memories over others. In its design, the park has been arranged to indicate the causal relationship between distant military command and immediate front-line response, and its t Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.opographical layout focuses exclusively on a thirty-minute military action during a fifty-month war. In its preserved state the part played by the RoySites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
al Newfoundland Regiment can be measured, w alked and vicariously experienced. Such an achievement has required close semiotic control and territorialpaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ines the initial preparation of the site in the 1920s and more recent periods of conservation and reconstruction. The author examines precedents for the preservation of battlefields, the spatiality of commemoration, and the expectations aroused by such sites of memory. By focussing on the Beaumont H Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.amel memorial site the author explores several areas of contention: historical accuracy, topographical legibility and freedom of access.•Remembering wSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
here it used to be’: topography and immutable memoryIn a lecture commissioned for the New York Public Library, and later published as ‘The Site of Mempaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ation bound up with memory. To illustrate the point she drew an analogy between site and memory: 'You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally, the river floods these places. "Floods" is the•)paul-1'ơughữ'uwc.3i-.ukword th Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ey use. but in fact it is not flooding: it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and it is forever trying toSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
get back to where it was.*2Morrison’s poetic image of a ‘stream of memory’ compelled to revisit an original site can be seen as integral to the relatpaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.retic interwining’ of place, identity and memory is indeed rare and subject to a continuous evolution of meaning. Social memory links emotional lies w ith specific geographies that arc anchored in places past’ and inevitably, during periods of national commemoration . appropriate emotions have been Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.invested in enduring forms of stone, bronze or brick. ‘Focussing on the monumental forms of our urban landscape. Boyer has described such manifestatioSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
ns as ‘rhetorical lopoi... civic compositions that teach US about our national heritage and our public responsibilities and assume that the urban landpaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.y unopposed and. as the work of Matsuda has shown, competition for the mnemonic spaces of cities has often been fierce and dramatic.5 If. as he contends, commemoration is always an act of evaluation, judgement, and of ‘speaking’ which ‘lends dignity to the identity of a group’ 6 then it is easy to s Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ee why. as Lefebvre argues? the commemorative process raises issues of territorial domination and the control of memory. Not only arc the meanings ofSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
monuments problematic but. as Lewis Mumford asserted, both monuments and revered sites may rapidly become invisible within the collective memory becaupaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ke memory itself, is profoundly unstable.9 Il is thus hardly surprising that, after each of the world wars of the last century, rhe dialectic between remembering and forgerring has been a dominant rheme in rhe discourses around commemoration and remembrance. 103pauLguugh^utxx: .ac.ukIn Europe such a Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.rguments have focussed on the status of memory as invested in a knowable object. It has been argued that the failure of nineteenth century forms of moSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
numentalism resulted from the fact that representational modes of commemoration, cither plinth-based or architectural, could no longer convey the comppaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.serted that fixed statuary induces a reified memory that quickly results in national amnesia, rather than a meaningful act of ongoing remembering. Building on the maxim of John Latham and the Artist Placement Group that ‘the context is half the (artjwork' artists and cultural interventionists such a Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.s Jochen Gcrz have claimed that memory is fluid and contingent and that., consequently, it is neither possible nor desirable to insist on a single, obSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
jective and authoritative reading of any place or historic moment.1' Michalski thus contends that the principle aim of the counter-monument is 'to regpaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ction and debate, however uncomfortable or radical. “ .Analysing what he refers to as the'anxiety of erasure’ engendered by bourgeois culture. Lacquer asserts in a similar vein that figurative simulation has long been inadequate to the task entrusted to it. Instead, ’the thing itself must do because Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. representation can no longer be relied on’. ”In many instances, however, ‘the thing' is little more than a cleared and uncluttered tract of land to wSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
hich historic significance is attached. Further to Lacquer's argument, it is possible to trace a developing commemorative strategy vested in locales opaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.gh to such Second World War sites as the beaches of Normandy, the 'martyred village' of Oradour. and to Hiroshima. 17 In each place the moral resonance of the site itself is seen as paramount. Ditches, mounds, mins and apparently barren tracts have been maintained because they are seen as 'historica Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.l traces' which have an authority that now eclipses the untenable artifice of the commemorative object. None the less, the semiotics of commemorativeSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
spatiality are complex because, as Bender points out. spaces are 'political, dynamic, and contested’ and4pmil-gou Ị-’h0' wc JC.ukso 'constantly open tpaul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. who WILS compelled by the qualities of particular sites and examined their role in the formation of collective memory. 'Space’, wrote Halbwachs, ‘is a reality that endures’, it can unite groups of individuals and believers concentrating and 'moulding its character to theirs.' 19 When compared to tr Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ansient phenomena and ill-considered monumentalia. certain geographical locations appear to be able to offer a sense of legitimate permanence that draSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
ws pilgrims to sites that 'place' or ‘contain' the memory of overwhelming events. The terrain around the Brandenburg Gate. Les Invalides, the ‘raised paul.goughWuwc -3c.ukGough, P.J. (2004) Sites in the imagination: the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme. Cultural Geographies. 11, pp. Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.ssues indicated above more urgent than in the controversies that surround how we remember and represent the I lolocaust. As Charlesworth and Addis have argued recently, in the absence of convincing memorials the sites chosen to remember the Holocaust are crucial to the national and popular imaginati Sites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.on as it comes to address this event. This is especially true of those places where ‘unmanaged ecological succession threatens to erase history’.’1 KoSites in the imagination the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme.
onz. in an analysis of the commemorative hinterland around Nazi concentration camps, suggests that whereas we know that written texts are 'infinitelyGọi ngay
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