Dr. Edward Simpson: Remembering natural disasters and memorials in India and Sri Lanka
(Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS Email es7@soas.ac.u)
11.00 - 12.00

Key Reading:
Casey, Edward, S. 2000. Remembering: A phenomenological study (second edition). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Inglis, K.S. 1992. ‘The Homecoming: The War Memorial Movement in Cambridge, England’ Journal of Contemporary History, 27 (4): 583-605.
Foote, Kenneth. 2003 [1997]. Shadowed ground: America’s landscapes of violence and tragedy, 2nd edition. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Simpson, Edward and Stuart Corbridge. 2006. ‘The geography of things that may become memories: The 2001 earthquake in Kachchh-Gujarat and the politics of rehabilitation in the pre-memorial era,’ Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96 (2): 566-585.
Winter, Jay (1995), Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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