Transnational and Local Memories of World War I in Sweden : the Case of Bohuslän
(2019) In Studies in European Integration, State and Society p.245-273- Abstract
- After the WWI Battle of Jutland in 1916, hundreds of dead British and German marines drifted ashore on the beaches of the region of Bohuslän in western Sweden. They were buried in local cemeteries, until the remains of most of the soldiers were reburied in Gothenburg in the 1960s. The chapter focuses on two local Bohuslän memory cultures in relation to the sailors and their graves. It seeks to identify factors facilitating remembrance of the fallen Other in the two local communities, focusing on the importance of materiality for the perseverance of memory as well as on the role of transnational factors linking the graves to wider circles of memory. In this regard it also takes into account the shifting interpretations in German memory... (More)
- After the WWI Battle of Jutland in 1916, hundreds of dead British and German marines drifted ashore on the beaches of the region of Bohuslän in western Sweden. They were buried in local cemeteries, until the remains of most of the soldiers were reburied in Gothenburg in the 1960s. The chapter focuses on two local Bohuslän memory cultures in relation to the sailors and their graves. It seeks to identify factors facilitating remembrance of the fallen Other in the two local communities, focusing on the importance of materiality for the perseverance of memory as well as on the role of transnational factors linking the graves to wider circles of memory. In this regard it also takes into account the shifting interpretations in German memory cultures of one of the dead marines, the writer Gorch Fock. (Less)
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- author
- Bernsand, Niklas LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019-05
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Memory Studies, Cultural Heritage, Sweden, WWI, Bohuslän
- host publication
- Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden : European heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion - European heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion
- series title
- Studies in European Integration, State and Society
- editor
- Kowalski, Krzysztof ; Piekarska-Duraj, Lucja and Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara
- pages
- 245 - 273
- publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Group
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- scopus:85113403001
- ISBN
- 978-3-631-78392-4
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 544c79ee-af0b-4828-8705-016645c03336
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- 2019-05-07 18:18:39
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- 2022-04-25 23:23:07
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