Disaster Memorials And Monuments

Disaster Memorials and Monuments

Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World presents a wide-ranging understanding and exploration on memorials and monuments built in the aftermath of accidents, natural disasters and acts of violence. Disaster management expert, Kjell Brataas, provides a compassionate voice to difficult and complex situations as well as practical advice based on lessons learned through academic research, site visits and personal experience. Brataas illustrates a wide range of monuments and memorial projects from all over the world and explains the process of their creation and the challenges that occur in memorialization processes. He further proposes strategies for dealing with trials and controversies in similar future developments. Features include: Personal interviews with key stakeholders in the field of memorializing, psychology and victim support, who have first-hand experience with memorial projects Insights, lessons learned and advice from scholars, professors, politicians, support group leaders, survivors, bereaved, community leaders and neighbors Reporting on more than 80 memorials from around the world, including New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Sahara, Chile, Japan and South Korea Suggested reading, including books, reports and presentations on the topic Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World is important reading for all practicing professionals, for those who study and teach the importance and the process of developing memorials and monuments and for everyone interested in crisis management and the aftermath of disasters.

Disasters, Recovery and Emotions in Asia and in Europe

The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in different regions of the world, here in East Asia and Europe. It produces multi-situated inequalities on a global scale, drawing new geographical, climatic, social, and moral boundaries in an “ecological cosmopolitanism.” Democratic and authoritarian governments put in place biopolitical apparatuses for societal reinvention. Individuals develop social, economic and emotional capabilities for survival, recovery, and mobilization in the post-disaster process. In Western Europe, environmental and disaster sociology has been built around a Western way of thinking about the relationship between risks, disaster, and modernity. Japanese and Chinese sociologists/anthropologists highlighted non-Western approaches to disasters. This book is a contribution to the post-Western sociology in a cross-pollinization process where “Western” and “non-Western” knowledge about disaster do interact, articulated through cosmovisions to move towards dialogical between East Asia and Europe.

Monuments, Memorials and the Local Historian