Traces of Conflict: Environment and Eviction in British Military Training Areas, 1943 to Present

Autor:	Marianna R Dudley
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Value (ethics) History Eviction media_common.quotation_subject World War II Art Training (civil) Rural development Anthropology Law Political economy Political Science and International Relations Environmentalism media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of War & Culture Studies. 6:112-126
ISSN:	1752-6280 1752-6272
DOI:	10.1179/1752627213z.00000000011
Popis:	This study presents military training areas as important military landscapes, and sites of conflict in their own right. It explores the development of military-environmentalism at two active British training areas, Salisbury Plain Training Area and Lulworth Range, Dorset. It contrasts the rise of the military-environmental discourse with the removal of human inhabitants of the areas during the Second World War. The public protests and memorial attempts that followed, it argues, along with (but not allied with) emerging environmentalism, shaped military understanding of the value of its landholdings. Two walks at Salisbury Plain Training Area and Imber highlight the critical role of access in militarized landscapes. This study goes beyond the barbed wire to reveal military training areas as complex places, at which a site-based perspective teases out the nuances of broad narratives—war, rural development, environmentalism, and anti-military protest—as they have played out on two different landscape...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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