Performing wartime memories: Ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-356

  Purvis, Martin ^a   Atkinson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ceremonial space; Holocaust; Italy; Political and academic revisionism; Site of memory; World War Two; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; EXPLORATION; MEMORY; POLITICAL CHANGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

EID: 67650652476     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360902756648     Document Type: Article

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