War Tourisms: 'Englishness', Art, and the First World War

Malvern, Sue

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“…War objects are not singular self-contained things but are bound up with assemblages (Bennett 2010) and configurations which signal certain imaginaries and provoke particular narrative fragments (Mac Ginty 2017). For instance, an early model gas mask displayed in the British context is likely to signal fragments of narratives about trench-warfare, mustard gas, a time when German soldiers were 'the enemy' (Malvern 2001). It provokes certain affects and emotions linked to a (very context-specific) conception of particular times -perhaps in the case of the gas mask a more innocent, committed, collectivist sensation of nationalism and 'Englishness' (see Malvern 2001) connected to rations, munitions factories, war poets and a nation pulling together.…”

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“…For instance, an early model gas mask displayed in the British context is likely to signal fragments of narratives about trench-warfare, mustard gas, a time when German soldiers were 'the enemy' (Malvern 2001). It provokes certain affects and emotions linked to a (very context-specific) conception of particular times -perhaps in the case of the gas mask a more innocent, committed, collectivist sensation of nationalism and 'Englishness' (see Malvern 2001) connected to rations, munitions factories, war poets and a nation pulling together. This is parallels what Basham (2016b, 259) refers to as 'Blitz spirit'.…”

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A pint to remember: the pub as community militarism

Partis-Jennings

2020

Critical Military Studies

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This article focuses on The Don War Memorial Bar in Stockton-upon-Tees as a themed space. This space 'made' through embodied labour, martial images and objects and practices of care and compassion as well as of mourning forges an emotional community that signals specific political effects in times of austerity and in relation to potential immunity for atrocity crime in the context of British imperial war-making (specifically focusing on Northern Ireland). This article builds on diverse and multidisciplinary insights to explore the understudied space of the war-themed pub as a crucial site of everyday liberal militarism delineated by aesthetic and material modes of immersion, memorialisation and affective praxis. It makes a significant contribution to ongoing conversations about martial memory-curation and the significance of emotional nationalism crafted through banal sites of encounter and embodied performances. Moreover, it further highlights the importance of the pub, especially in the context of the UK, to 'everyday IR' and complex configurations of national atmospheres and geopolitical ritual.

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