Masterplanning public memorials: an historical comparison of Washington, Ottawa and Canberra

Stevens, Quentin

doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.874956

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“…Unsurprisingly, Canberra, the nation's capital, is a key site of public commemoration. In his survey of the planning of public memorials in Washington DC, Ottawa and Canberra, Quentin Stevens (2015) observes that in each capital "military themes predominate, while many other worthy subjects go un-commemorated" (p. 56). He further notes that these commemorative landscapes "continuously and incrementally develop through decisions negotiated among various political parties, local and national government agencies, civic interest groups, experts in history and design, and mourners, and in evolving historical contexts of struggle between an overarching sense of nationhood and the fates and interests of specific social groups" (pp.…”

Section: Post-1945 War Memorialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict and the Australian commemorative landscape

Bedford¹,

Gehrmann²,

Kerby³

et al. 2021

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Australian war memorials have changed over time to reflect community sentiments and altered expectations for how a memorial should look and what it should commemorate. The monolith or cenotaph popular after the Great War has given way to other forms of contemporary memorialisation including civic, counter or anti-memorials or monuments. Contemporary memorials and monuments now also attempt to capture the voices of marginalised groups affected by trauma or conflict. In contrast, Great War memorials were often exclusionary, sexist and driven by a nation building agenda. Both the visibility and contestability of how a country such as Australia pursues public commemoration offers rich insights into the increasingly widespread efforts to construct an inclusive identity which moves beyond the cult of the warrior and the positioning of war as central to the life of the nation.

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Section: Post-1945 War Memorialsmentioning

confidence: 99%