Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War

First World War Cemeteries: Insights from Visitor Books

“…Many of these cemeteries have national significance and visitors may have been concerned with remembrance of their own country's actions in the war, as Scates (2006) and Slade (2003) demonstrated in their analyses of Gallipoli. These sites often have large monuments on site or nearby which tend to draw people to them and they present a range of services which satisfy a diversity of needs.…”

“…Tending the grave indicates the relatives' ongoing care, concern and emotional involvement and can 'serve as a proxy act of physical contact with the deceased' (Francis et al 2000: 43;Bachelor 2007). The largest proportion of visitation occurs in the period closely following the funeral, and then declines, a pattern which differs significantly to visitation to First World War cemeteries, where almost a century after the burials, visitation is increasing (Scates 2006;Bachelor 2007).…”

“…Franklin (2003: 177) argues, for example, that nationalism is a concept which has meaning only through performance, such as visiting sites of particular national interest. The example of Australians and New Zealanders visiting Gallipoli is well known (Slade 2003;Scates 2006). Cemetery visitation on the Western Front has continued for close to one hundred years and, while there is extensive…”

Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia

“…These include tourisms associated with the American Civil War (Chronis, 2012), the First and Second World Wars (Cooper, 2006;Scates, 2006;Winter, 2012), Vietnam (Henderson, 2000), Cambodia (Sion, 2011), Rwanda (Friedrich & Johnston, 2013), Sri Lanka (Hyndman & Amarasingam, 2014), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Causevic & Lynch, 2011;Naef, 2014), the Middle East (Milstein, 2013), as well as tours to more recent sites of terrorism (Sather-Wagstaff, 2011). Likewise, authors have developed a wide range of concepts and heuristic 'labels' to make sense of tourism practices and representations within potentially contested moral and memorial terrain, such as 'dark' or 'thanatourism' (Foley & Lennon, 1996;Seaton, 1999;Stone, 2006), 'battlefield tourism' (Dunkley, Morgan, & Westwood, 2011;Ryan, 2007), '(post-)war' or 'post-conflict tourism', 'atrocity heritage' (Ashworth, 2004;Fyall, Prideaux, & Timothy, 2006), or alternatively, 'Phoenix tourism' (Causevic & Lynch, 2011), 'reconciliation tourism' (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2003) as well as 'peace tourism' (Moufakkir & Kelly, 2010).…”

Memorialising Gallipoli: Manufacturing Memory at Anzac

“…Well into the 1920s, zealous bureaucrats in Melbourne pursued families who failed to pay, as if they had not 'given' enough for Empire. 18 These statements in stone span a spectrum of emotion. Many are proud and patriotic, some intently imperialistic, others fervently Australian.…”