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Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste (2009)
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Purvis, M., & Atkinson, D. (2009). Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste. Social & cultural geography, 10(3), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360902756648

The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of th... Read More about Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste.