Heritage and Memory of War

Gilly Carr is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Director in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education, UK. She is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at St. Catharine’s College, UK. She is author of Legacies of Occupation: Archaeology, Heritage and Memory in the Channel Islands (2014) and co-editor (with Harold Mytum) of Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire (Routledge, 2012). Keir Reeves is Professor and Chair in Regional Engagement at Federation University, Australia. In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a visiting researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, UK where he worked with the Heritage Research Group in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. Keir is co-editor (with Bill Logan) of Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with ‘Difficult Heritage’ (Routledge, 2009).

CONTENTS

Introduction: Islands of War, Islands of Memory

Gilly Carr and Keir Reeves

Chapter 1: Islands, intimate and public memories of the Pacific War in Fiji

Jacqueline Leckie

Chapter 2: Fragmented memories: the Dodecanese Islands during WWII

Hazal Papuccular

Chapter 3: From poetic anamnesis to political commemoration: grassroots and institutional memories of the Greek Civil War on an Aegean Island

Elena Mamoulaki

Chapter 4: Islands of war, guardians of memory: the afterlife of the German Occupation in the British Channel Islands

Gilly Carr

Chapter 5: Turncoat heroes or reckless egotists? The ambivalent memorialization of the ‘Russian War’ on the Dutch Island of Texel

Rob van Ginkel

Chapter 6: The HMS Royal Oak and the ‘Ownership of Tragedy’ in Orkney

Daniel Travers

Chapter 7: "Tingbaot Wol Wo II Long Pasifik Aelan": managing memories of WWII heritage in the Pacific

Keir Reeves and Joseph Cheer

Chapter 8: Malta G.C.: war memories and cultural narratives of a Mediterranean island

Sandro Debono

Chapter 9: Scraps of memory: Pacific War tourism on Efate Island (Vanuatu)

Lamont Lindstrom

Chapter 10: Islands of no return: memory, materiality and the Falklands War

Tony Pollard

Chapter 11: The coastwatcher mythos: the politics and poetics of Solomon Islands war memory

Geoffrey White

Chapter 12: The sacred and the profane: souvenir and collecting behaviours on the WWII battlefields of Peleliu Island, Palau, Micronesia

Neil Price, Rick Knecht and Gavin Lindsay

Chapter 13: War remnants of the Greek archipelago: persistent memories or fragile heritage?

Nota Pantzou

Chapter 14: Post war legacies in the island of Kythera: oblivion versus historical memory

Irene Lagani

Chapter 15: Crete: visual memories of war

Maria Kagiadaki

Chapter 16: Remembering war and occupation in post-independence Timor-Leste

Michael Leach