Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History

Description

This book is about how Australian and Turkish historical understanding of the First World War Gallipoli Campaign has been shaped by travel to the battlefield for the purposes of commemoration. Utilizing a cultural historical method, the study begins with examining how cultural conceptions of travel influenced the experience of those fighting in the 1915 Battle, and ends with the way that new global insecurities and the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan in 2021 is reflecting and influencing Australia and Turkey’s social memory of their military past. This wide historical lens and the author’s original fieldwork and analysis of documents allows for an in-depth exploration of the ways in which cultural patterns of social memory develop over time and mapping of how specific cultural representations in the past are reclaimed.  The book argues that travel is a key factor influencing social change by providing distinctive ritual experiences that afford unique, discursive opportunities and empowering particular carriers and custodians of social memory.      Preface Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures Chapter 1: Travel Theory and Meaningful Mobility Travel Perspectives Towards a Strong Cultural Sociology of Travel Travel, Pilgrimage and Historical Dilemmas Outline of the Book References Chapter 2: Mobilising and Immobilising Travel Travel Imaginaries On the War Path Pilgrimage Dreams Memorial and Ritual Surrogacy References Chapter 3: Special Anniversaries, Memorials and Travel Gallipoli at 50 Battlefield Memorialisation and the 75th Anniversary Pilgrimage The 90th Anniversary and the 57th Regiment Re-enactment References Chapter 4: Tourist Pilgrimage and Reimagining the Nation Rise of the Australian Backpacker Pilgrimage Turkish Tour Guides and Dialogical Memory Municipality Social Tourism and Populist Islam References Chapter 5: Centennial Turns, Neo-Ottomanism and the New Tyranny of Distance Gallipoli and National Solidarity in the New Turkey The Search for Post-Pilgrimage Anzac Meaning Conclusion References References Chapter 1 References Chapter 2 References Chapter 3 References Chapter 4 References Chapter 5 References Index