‘It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia

McKenna, Mark; Ward, Stuart

doi:10.1080/10314610708601236

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“…The Gallipoli landscape has been made even more intense recently through additional sculpture, interpretations and tourist experiences that Bruce Scates claims has sanitised this formerly ''traumatised landscape' ' (2009, p. 57). Even so, Gallipoli has always had multiple meanings for Australians and New Zealanders and more cynical views of the Anzac phenomenon claim that the popularity of pilgrimage to Gallipoli has less to do with history and more with commerce and politics (McKenna & Ward, 2007).…”

Section: Pilgrims and Sacred Landscapesmentioning

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Sacred Landscapes: Albany and Anzac Pilgrimage

Stephens

2012

Landscape Research

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Sacred Landscapes: Albany and Anzac Pilgrimage

Stephens

2012

Landscape Research

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“…44 Anticipating significant interest in attendance at Gallipoli for the traditional Anzac Day "dawn service" in the centenary year, the Department of Veterans Affairs set a cap of 10,500 places for the service, 8000 of which would be allocated to Australians. The central focus here was predictably Anzac Cove at Gallipoli itself, which had become something of a pilgrimage site for Australians.…”

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Remembering Gallipoli: Anzac, the Great War and Australian Memory Politics

McDonald

2017

Aus J of Politics History

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Few could have predicted that an ill‐fated landing of Allied troops in modern‐day Turkey in April 1915 would become the founding moment of the Australian nation. Australians were amongst several nations represented and did not suffer the most casualties, while the battle itself and the campaign of which it was a part was a military failure. Yet the notion that this battle constituted a “coming of age” for a nascent nation, and that Australian soldiers had exhibited the defining characteristics of a national type, has become a powerful — even hegemonic — story of Australian identity. Many analysts have pointed to the militaristic, masculine and mono‐cultural dimensions of a myth that weds the nation to a colonial past and in the process imposes limits on the ways in which we can imagine the nation and its role in the world. Yet as the Australian government geared up for the 2015 centenary of that landing — Anzac Day — with an unprecedented commitment of resources for commemorative activities, the shadow cast by the broader Anzac myth over Australian society and politics triggered surprisingly little public debate. This paper explores the key contours of the Anzac myth, examining the politics of Anzac memory and memorialisation in the context of the centenary of the Great War and the landing of Australian troops at Gallipoli.

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“…As Richard White (1981:136) argues, after its inception Anzac Day increasingly “developed a common form of observance, complete with a semi‐religious ritual, liturgy and hymnal, perhaps filling a spiritual need in a secularized society.” Such a characterization of Anzac Day is also evident in the work of Graham Seal and Ken Inglis. Seal (2007) notes that travel to the sites of the Anzac sacrifice―and particularly Anzac cove at Gallipoli—have long been described by observers and participants as “pilgrimages” (see also Scates 2006; McKenna and Ward 2007; Hannaford and Newton 2008). Inglis (1988), meanwhile, suggests a central role for memorials of war in the Australian context as “sacred places” (see also Millar 1987).…”

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“Lest We Forget”: The Politics of Memory and Australian Military Intervention1

McDonald

2010

International Political Sociology

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In justifying participation in military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the “war on terror,” Australian Prime Minister John Howard invoked the memory of Australian sacrifice in war, linked most prominently to the so‐called “Anzac myth.” This paper explores the role of memory politics in enabling military intervention, discussing in the process the relationship between sites and forms of remembrance and broader discourses of national identity. This use of collective memory has significant implications for debates about Australian identity, and suggests the need for approaches to the study of international relations to take seriously the role of memory politics in coming to terms with conditions of possibility for particular security policies and practices.

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‘It was really moving, mate’: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia

Cited by 60 publications

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Sacred Landscapes: Albany and Anzac Pilgrimage

Sacred Landscapes: Albany and Anzac Pilgrimage

Remembering Gallipoli: Anzac, the Great War and Australian Memory Politics

“Lest We Forget”: The Politics of Memory and Australian Military Intervention1

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