A pacifist critique of the red poppy: reflections on British war commemorations’ increasingly hegemonic militarism

Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre

doi:10.1080/23337486.2021.2014237

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“…Rituals of remembrance have been critiqued in recent years for producing hegemonic messages and stifling debate (Christoyannopoulos, 2023;Jeffery, 2015;Pennell, 2018). Similar critiques were offered in the decades immediately following the First World War (Gregory, 1994;Wright, 2020).…”

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Remembrance and ritual in English schools

Alexander,

Wright,

Aldridge

et al. 2024

Children & Society

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This article explores war remembrance and ritual in English schools. The Remembrance in Schools project (2013–2020) investigated remembrance practices in schools in England through questionnaires, interviews and observations. Schools are unique as sites of remembrance because children constitute the majority of participants in rituals. School‐based rituals of remembrance might potentially reproduce dominant discourses of war‐normalisation that conflate military values and nationalism with morally ‘good’ values and an imagined community of the nation. They also provide a contested, ambivalent space in which ambiguities of practice and thinking may encourage the emergence, in small ways, of counter‐narratives about war and its remembrance.

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Remembrance and ritual in English schools

Alexander,

Wright,

Aldridge

et al. 2024

Children & Society

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“…Why did pacifism and nonviolence not gain more popularity during the 'long peace' that followed the Second World War? (Boggs and Pollard, 2017;Chae, 2023;Christoyannopoulos, 2021;Der Derian, 2009;Galtung, 1990;Juluri, 2005;Martin and Steuter, 2010;Pollard, 2002;Sylvester, 2009;Weber, 2006) Ten, there is scope to assess the potential for not only nonviolent resistance but also nonviolent policies of governance (such as in public-order maintenance, policing, crime-management, and counter-terrorism), nonviolent practices of protection (such as unarmed civilian protection and zones of peace), and practical proposals away from institutions that rely on violence (such as 'trans-armament' , demilitarisation, and nonviolent civilian-based defence). How effective are such nonviolent policies, and what is the evidence from case studies?…”

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Pacifism and Nonviolence: Discerning the Contours of an Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Agenda

Christoyannopoulos

2023

J. Pacif. Nonviolence

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Pacifism and nonviolence have separable foci and origins, yet also share important similarities, and their respective histories are mutually imbricated. Both have, furthermore, been attracting growing scholarly interest. However, that scholarship has so far been scattered in disparate sub-disciplinary debates and specialist publications. The time has come for an ambitious multidisciplinary agenda to coordinate research on topics including: the varieties of approaches to nonviolence and pacifism; accusations against pacifism; tensions between pacifism and nonviolence; theories and practices outside the Global North; the multiple consequences of violence; violence and nonviolence in political thought; the relationship between violence/nonviolence and gender, race, and other social identities; the religious roots of pacifism and nonviolence; the place of violence and nonviolence in popular culture; practical nonviolent policies of governance; predominant assumptions concerning violence in ir; the threshold characteristics of ‘violence’; and methodological challenges in the study and pedagogy of nonviolence and pacifism.

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“Russian Troops Out! No to NATO expansion!” A pacific geopolitics for a new Europe

Megoran

2022

Political Geography

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A pacifist critique of the red poppy: reflections on British war commemorations’ increasingly hegemonic militarism

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Remembrance and ritual in English schools

Remembrance and ritual in English schools

Pacifism and Nonviolence: Discerning the Contours of an Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Agenda

“Russian Troops Out! No to NATO expansion!” A pacific geopolitics for a new Europe

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