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.
Author(s): Brad West
Series: Cultural Sociology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 286
City: Cham
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
