City in conflict

PREFACE: ‘CITY IN CONFLICT’ – MILITARY ANTHROPOLOGY PERSPECTIVE 2023, 2023

In 2021, a study towards a new research direction in Military Anthropology was proposed in the special issue of ‘Wiedza Obronna’.1 That research was initiated by Polish Military Anthropologists supported by academic colleagues from Azerbaijan, Iraq, New Zealand, South Africa, and Serbia, who presented the field results and theoretical research in the special issue of ‘Wiedza Obronna’. The cooperation has resulted in a more profound and focused investigation. During further comparative and field research in Poland and Ukraine, it emerged that the social environment is particularly vulnerable to the negative impact of an aggressor conducting so-called subliminal warfare in the social environment. The NATO nomenclature identifies five multi-operational areas ― maritime, land, air, space, and cyberspace. However, multi-operational areas must be expanded to include socio-cultural factors – Operational Area 6: Culture.

Wiedza Obronna v. 285 No 4, 2023

A study of semiotics, urban spaces, and anthropological defense in Ukraine is presented in this paper. An anthropological defense is the safeguarding of cultural identity and human values through the study of signs and symbols. A city's urban space is a crucial arena in which cultural symbols, ideologies, and collective identities are manifested. Specifically, the study seeks to investigate how these elements contribute to the defense and preservation of the anthropological essence of a community within the Ukrainian context.

A.I.Zalewska, J.M.Scott, G. Kiarszys (eds.) Materiality of Troubled Pasts Archaeologies of Conflicts and Wars, Warsaw-Szczecin 2017., 2017

The phenomena of troubled pasts composed of conflicts and wars seem to be an inalienable part of being human. Conflicts have long drawn the attention of researchers in the social sciences and humanities.Through analysis of the materiality of the multi-temporal layering of troubled pasts, archaeologists gain opportunities to realize and share with the audience both the cognitive complexity and the social importance of these pasts. The significance of ‘material witnesses’ and ‘material warnings’ along with the specific meanings (changing in time and depending on taken perspective) attached to them are becoming the subjects of growing interest and dynamic discussions among archaeologists and other stakeholders all over the world. We hope that the components of this volume in which the authors presented reliable outcomes of research, investigations, surveys that uncover and present the material and mental traces of past conflicts and wars will add profundity to an understanding of their social and material values and meanings (Editors: A.I.Zalewska, J.M.Scott, G. Kiarszys, 2017.

DGUF Newsletter , 2023

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The American Historical Review, 2015

Bodily, geographic and architectural sites are embedded with cultural knowledge and social value. This series provides ethnographically rich analyses of the cultural organization and meanings of these sites of space, architecture, landscape and places of the body. Contributions examine the symbolic meanings of space and place, the cultural and historical processes involved in their construction and contestation, and how they communicate with wider political, religious, social and economic institutions. Volume 1 Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany Gisa Weszkalnys Volume 2

Amsterdam University Press, 2022

From a wider disciplinary perspective, modern conflict archaeology is now a thoroughly established and mature subdiscipline. However, a significant problem conflict archaeologists in the Netherlands face is that modern eras, including both world wars, have so far not received serious attention. Although both world wars appeal strongly to the popular imagination, until recently, Dutch researchers had not approached modern conflict from an academic archaeological perspective to any great extent. This is partly the result of problematic legislation on archaeological activity in the Netherlands. When applied and interpreted appropriately, archaeology can play an important role in the preservation, contemporary experience and historical reconstruction of recent conflicts. However, as Archaeological Approaches to and Heritage Perspectives on Modern Conflict: Beyond the Battlefields argues, research methods other than excavations will be needed to conduct conflict archaeology in the Netherlands effectively. This study aims to develop a Dutch approach to conflict archaeology, integrating archaeology, heritage research and history at a landscape scale.

THE CONVERSATION, 2023

During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless of its intentions, destroys roads, bridges, commercial and residential buildings, as well as the architecture they embody. Throughout history and around the globe, calls to stop wars have focused on the value of people’s lives. In recent decades, there has been a lot of attention paid to protecting cultural heritage.However, there has been little consideration for the value of public places and people’s memories of these spaces. Buildings – such as residential and commercial structures, schools and hospitals – are of ten destroyed in the chaos of conflict, leaving behind psychological trauma that can last for generations. In a recent paper, we set out why cities and their buildings need to be protected. This infrastructure, unique or not, represents people’s history, culture and social fabric. In our paper, we coined the term “wartime urbanism” to describe what we believe needs to be done to preserve a city’s distinctive characteristics in times of conflict.

l libro trae ispirazione da uno dei dibattiti più significativi degli ultimi anni, ovvero il ruolo della memoria in relazione al tema del Conflict Heritage. Le tracce dei conflitti bellici rappresentano un patrimonio difficile da gestire e a cui relazionarsi perchè legato a storie scomode, spesso traumatiche. Tuttavia riteniamo che esso rappresenti un tema centrale su cui riflettere, superando i contesti locali e lavorando alla costruzione di un’identità collettiva a scala europea. Il libro presenta una selezione critica di saggi raggruppati secondo tre tematiche principali, l’archeologia, l’arte e la museografia, offrendo diversi approcci e nuove prospettive sul tema del Conflict Heritage. Con contributi tra gli altri di Sharon Macdonald, Ian Chambers, Marek Jasinsky, Luca Basso Peressut, Elisabetta Terragni. This book takes inspiration from one of the most significant matter of debate of the recent years, that is to say the role of memory connected with Conflict Heritage. Linked as they are to unpleasant stories, they represent a patrimony that is difficult to manage. However, we believe they have the potential to resonate beyond their local contexts and work toward the construction of a collective identity on a European scale. This book presents a critical anthology of essays for the first time grouped in according to three main topics, archaeology, art and museography, and offers different approaches and new perspectives on the theme of Conflict Heritage. With contributions, among others, by Sharon Macdonald, Ian Chambers, Marek Jasinsky, Luca Basso Peressut, Elisabetta Terragni.