Contested Places, Contested Pasts - Kenneth E. Foote, Anett Árvay

Contested Places, Contested Pasts

Sites of Memory and Commemoration in The Hungarian Landscape
Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-87027-4 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Contested Places, Contested Pasts focuses on how the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War communist period and 1956 Uprising have been memorialized and marked in the Hungarian landscape. The book explores the difficult debates surrounding the remembrance and commemoration of these events.

This is the first comprehensive, book-length study of Hungary’s commemorative landscapes from the First World War to the present. By stressing the spatiality and materiality of memory practice, it offers new insights into why some events are celebrated widely, while other controversial events are marked modestly or not at all. Using a comparative case-study methodology, the book crisscrossed the country using archival sources and extensive fieldwork to document the stories behind dozens of major and minor memorials. Examples from Budapest are important, but a key contribution of this book are the examples drawn from cities, towns, and villages outside the capital. A wealth of photographs, maps, and diagrams are included to illustrate important ideas, especially the range of responses that have emerged to commemorate major historical events. In the end, the book highlights the value of studies like this one that explore the varied ways in which the World Wars, Holocaust, and Cold War have been represented in the commemorative landscapes of Europe and beyond.

This book is for readers interested in Hungarian and European history, public art and architecture, landscape studies, and commemorative practices. Weaving theory and examples in an engaging storyline, the book will appeal to broader audiences interested in the challenges of confronting Europe’s legacies of twentieth century war, violence, and political upheaval.

Kenneth E. Foote is a Professor of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on historic preservation, heritage tourism, and the commemorative landscapes of the U.S. and Europe, especially the way events of violence and tragedy are memorialized. His recent research has also focused on the spatial dimension of racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. In addition, Foote is also known for his work in geospatial technologies, especially geovisualization, as well as his efforts to improve professional development opportunities for early-career academics and department leaders. Foote is a past president and fellow of the American Association of Geographers (2010–11) and a past president of the U.S. National Council for Geographic Education (2006). He has received major national and international awards for his research, teaching, mentoring and service from the American Association of Geographers, National Council for Geographic Education, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and the Royal Geographical Society. Anett Árvay was born and raised in Szombathely, Hungary. At the University of Szeged, she earned her B.A. in Hungarian Studies, M.A. in Hungarian and English language and literature in 1996. She was awarded the Ph.D., summa cum laude, in applied linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. Currently, Anett is the director and lecturer in Hungarian Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research endeavors are linked to intercultural pragmatics and to the interdisciplinary field of Hungarian studies, with a special focus on Hungarian public place, political and historical memorials, and commemorative traditions. She also researches methods for introducing Hungarian cultural heritage to foreigners and has designed several study abroad programs, workshops, and cultural awareness trainings for international students from all over the world. Her research has appeared in The Geographical Review, Hungarologia, IRAL, and Acta Linquistica Hungarica, among other professional journals.

Introduction

CHAPTER 1: Inscribing the Past on Place: Theoretical Perspectives on Hungary’s Landscapes of Memory

CHAPTER 2: Key Moments in the Hungarian Past: A Historical Overview

CHAPTER 3: The Many Legacies of the First World War

CHAPTER 4: Confronting Defeat and Loss in the Second World War

CHAPTER 5: Remembering the Holocaust

CHAPTER 6: The Legacies of Communism

CHAPTER 7: The 1956 Uprising

CHAPTER 8: Hungary’s Unquiet Places, Unquiet Pasts

Appendix 1: Hungarian annual celebrations and holidays

Appendix 2: The 2019 program celebrating the 1956 Uprising in Budapest

Appendix 3: Anniversary programs of opposition parties in Budapest on October 23, 2019

Appendix 4: Key changes made in Kossuth Square

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.2.2025
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, black and white; 104 Halftones, color; 104 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-032-87027-3 / 1032870273
ISBN-13 978-1-032-87027-4 / 9781032870274
Zustand Neuware
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