- Title
- "Tingbaot Wol Wo II Long Pasifik Aelan" Managing memories of WWII Heritage in the Pacific
- Creator
- Reeves, Keir; Cheer, Joseph
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/94762
- Identifier
- vital:10049
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-138-83172-8
- Abstract
- As Judith Bennett's quotation observes, the impact of the Pacific War on Pacific Islanders was a unique event that permanently changed patterns of life throughout the region. This chapter iTivestigates and analyses the present day cultural heritage legacy issues associated with WWII. It emphasizes the irnporrance of Islander perspectives of the conflict and how their heri tage is remembered and conunemorated at th.e present time. It also consid ers how official heritage dialogues commemorate the war. For many, the memory of the Pacific War, as well as in tum attention to the remaining heri tage, is fading and in some instances is no longer relevant. Seemingly there are competing trends regarding commemoration of war heritage or, increas ingly, forgetting it. Many Pacific Islands exhibit longevity in nurturing their war memory and heritage. An indicative example is the Solomon Islands, where there has been a recent spate of commemorative events and public sculptures to honour the coasrwatchers. Yet other Pacific Island societies place less and less value on their war heritage as time goes by. This tension between remembering and forgetting is primarily associated with the Pacific War's intangible heritage. "From introduction"
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Relation
- Heritage and Memory of War: Response from small islands p. 129-143
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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