I kalla krigets spår Frihammar, Mattias; Krohn Andersson, Fredrik; Wendt, Maria ...
2023
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Cultural heritage is not just something from the past, but always also reflects contemporary needs and desires. In the Traces of the Cold War describes the making of a diverse and innovative Swedish ...military heritage. The book shows how memories and material remains from a period characterized by fear and geopolitical tensions are infused with new meanings when bunkers, decommissioned military facilities and technology are transformed into luxury housing, attractive tourist destinations and museum exhibitions. Through field-visits to military heritage sites across Sweden, the authors examine what material objects, narratives and emotions that today represent the Cold War. These examinations show how military structures and equipment from a time associated with threat and danger become captivating elements of the cultural heritage, while also communicating specific ideas regarding security and protection. In the Traces of the Cold War takes a novel approach to cultural heritage by relating collective memory-making to security policy. Based on theoretical perspectives from critical heritage studies (CHS) and feminist international relations (IR), the analysis focuses on constructions of national belonging and underlines the role of gender and sexuality in narrations of security and protection. In a democracy, the subject of military violence must always be a matter of ethical and political conversations. Setting out from this assumption, the authors critically discuss how Cold War heritagisation produces militarization as “natural” and necessary. The book invites reflection on how history is written as well as on what the requirements are for a safe and secure society. In the Traces of the Cold War presents the results from an interdisciplinary research project. The authors are all researchers at Stockholm University and have written the book together.
Military events have significantly influenced history, and this is why military heritage is considered to be extremely important. Many of the most significant events shaping history have associations ...with national defence and conflict across the globe. Preserving military heritage helps us to comprehend important societal ideals and traditions. Every country is unique with regards to its military heritage. Military heritage tourism serves as a way for people with vested interest therein or simply the casual and curious among us to learn more about a countries military history. Military heritage tourism exists because of people with similar interests who come together to honour and celebrate their shared military heritage. Much will be drawn from the well-researched field of heritage tourism and its success as a tool of mediation in mending a nation with a controversial and bloody colonial past. The purpose of this paper is to determine what military heritage entails and in which forms it is practiced. South Africa has an abundance of military heritage sites which includes inter alia, battlefields, museums, memorials, monuments, festivals, events, re-enactors, re-enactments and private military collectors. In an effort to determine the potential of military heritage tourism as a niche market in the South African context the author will analyse each component of military heritage tourism, provide South African examples of each, explain their importance and the context in which they support one another. The paper will ultimately hopefully lay the foundation for greater military heritage and make recommendations with regard to future research needed on military heritage tourism in South Africa so as to drive the sustainability of heritage as such.
While sites associated with the cultural heritage of armed conflict are self-evident in the landscape, sites associated with arms limitation treaties are usually conspicuously absent. The Washington ...Arms Limitation Treaty 1922 was arguably one the most significant treaties of the first half of the twentieth century. It can be shown that some heritage items associated with this treaty are still extant. Just as the Treaty required multinational goodwill and cooperation, the preservation of some of that heritage will also require multinational collaboration.
El artículo evalúa la incidencia de la universidad en ciudades de tamaño medio, tomando Zamora como paradigma. Partiendo del origen de la institución en esta ciudad, se analiza el proceso de ...formación y desarrollo del Campus Viriato, enclavado en una antigua estructura castrense que el nuevo destino docente ha permitido conservar. Esta operación ha regenerado y transformado su entorno urbano y ha ejercido un efecto revitalizador sobre la localidad en las últimas décadas. Si bien la actual coyuntura ha frenado las expectativas de expansión, las autoridades locales y universitarias mantienen su colaboración, lo que permite prever la consolidación y crecimiento de este equipamiento.
Cold War military remnants and experiences have recently been turned into museums and tourist attractions in many European countries. Recognizing such memory making as essentially political, we ...examine the role of gender and sexuality in the making of a Cold War military heritage. Combining critical feminist and intersectional Cold War research with gender perspectives on military memory, this article contributes to feminist conceptualizations of the relationship between gendered security and the production of memory. By highlighting narratives and spatial, visual, and acoustic arrangements, we investigate state-sponsored museum displays of two national security crises in the Swedish context: the 1952 Soviet downing of a DC-3 airplane and the submarine hunts in the Baltic Sea in the early 1980s. The analysis reveals how gender works to construct a geopolitical outlook, enable emotional identifications, and restore national order. Heterosexuality and hierarchical gender norms emerge as prerequisites for national security. We argue that when visitors are encouraged to feel gendered national security, opportunities to critically reflect upon Cold War histories decrease, promoting the depoliticization of security politics and militarism.
Having established itself as a heritage discourse, planetary gentrification is being studied in terms of how it operates in the Global South. This study focuses on the case of Abdali Amman, a ...significant mixed-use neighbourhood in Jordan that has experienced numerous mega-gentrification initiatives. According to Bourdieu’s theories of the state and dispositional practices, this study critically evaluates urban gentrification practices. In terms of gentrification governance, which takes place in two adjacent ‘state’ and ‘civic’ zones inside the Abdali district, this study analyses the interactions between transnational and state actors and the intragovernmental (state-municipality) governance system. Gentrification in Amman is connected to the revitalisation of historic sites, is a matter of urban governance, and operates from the transnational sphere along national and local lines. Furthermore, gentrification is caught in a desire/resistance paradox with calls for legitimacy and recognition. As a country in the Global South, Jordan has welcomed capitalist urbanisation. Gentrification is articulated within a flux between deterritorialisation/reterritorialisation, producing a form of ‘heritage gentrification’ in which history and national heritage are sacrificed through a process of satellite gentrification that is rooted in generative cultural transformation and governed by decentralised power structures. Introducing a Western blueprint of planetary gentrification through narrow gates into non-Western environments is a prevailing challenge.
Famous for his tragic death in Zululand on 1 June 1879, the Prince Imperial nevertheless left behind artworks produced throughout his short life and which reveal his natural talents for drawing and ...sculpture. This article allows us to explore this little-known aspect of the prince, which shows that beyond the military, he was also an accomplished artist with gifts that were as precocious as they were promising.
The essay shows some results of a research aimed at building a digital database of Sardinian military architectures of Second World War. Following an activity of cataloguing entrusted to integrated ...digital survey methods already applied in other case studies of the region, this contribute analyses the built heritage placed in territory of Bosa, a centre located in the west coast of the island, in which 33 bunkers have been founded, most of them represented in the IGM military historical maps.These “modern sentinels”, positioned along the coastline, the main roads and the railway leading to the actual urban context, are designed in reinforced concrete, also integrated with local stone, with a frequently use of square and circle shape often combined or modified and adapted to achieve a complete mimesis in the landscape that hosts them.The survey, applied at architecture and landscape scale, has produced a complete collection of data functional to realize an interoperable digital database, a necessary tool for a deepened knowledge and enhancement of a lost WWII heritage.
In the shadow of numerous works that investigate the history of Senj in the 20th century stands the fact that the period of the First World War has remained a relatively neglected and poorly treated ...topic that has not yet sparked historiographic interest to a satisfactory level. The lack of local archival materials and insufficiently studied and published other sources stand out as fundamental problems that a researcher of this period is faced with. However, although wars as an indispensable part of history are continuously documented in historical sources, an important part of the information that was not written down on paper has remained stored in material traces, the correct interpretation of which through the discourse of relevant theoretical frameworks can offer an important contribution to the analysis and reconstruction of various aspects of war and warfare. Modern archaeological discipline that is focused on the study of the material remains from a conflict, developing new research methods that allow a better understanding of war events, is called conflict archaeology. An important part of the focus of conflict archaeology is represented by the remains of fortifications whose appearance is not exclusively related to battlefields. The paper presents a hitherto unknown segment of Senj’s military heritage, which refers to the trenches that the Austro-Hungarian army built during the First World War in the Park of Senj Writers, in the area of St Ambrose and around the tennis court on Nehaj hill. On the basis of field prospecting, the processing of written data and consideration of similar examples, the historical, spatial and chronological context of the creation of fortifications is discussed, and on the example of the trench in the Park of Senj Writers, its cultural and historical importance is evaluated as the last and excellently preserved example of military architecture of the First World War in Senj. Consequently, the need to preserve and protect the building is highlighted and a dialogue is opened about the possibilities and requirements of its restoration and valorisation.
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