Remembering the Present: Oregon's Afghan-Iraqi Freedom Memorial

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dc.contributor.authorIsaak, Marissa Tamar, 1980-
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-02T00:07:57Z
dc.date.available2010-09-02T00:07:57Z
dc.date.issued2010-06
dc.descriptionxi, 133 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.en_US
dc.description.abstractOn Veterans Day 2006, Oregon's governor dedicated the newest addition to the capitol grounds, a memorial fountain commemorating the soldiers killed in the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: The Afghan-Iraqi Freedom Memorial. The political contestations surrounding the memorial demonstrate how ideologies become inscribed onto landscapes. After conducting a qualitative analysis including interviewing participants and detractors of the monument, observing the site on multiple occasions, and examining its media coverage, I conclude that the memorial stakes a claim to the meaning of this controversial war long before the fighting is over, it reproduces geopolitical imaginaries promoted by the Bush Administration, and it reconfigures trends in the representation of soldiers. By taking a multi-scalar approach to this research, I am able to combine geopolitical, State-level, and embodied approaches to memorial research. This project furthers the geography literature by exposing the multiple meanings contained in one local commemorative site.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCommittee in Charge: Lise Nelson, Chair; Alexander Murphyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/10668
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of Geography, M.A., 2010;
dc.titleRemembering the Present: Oregon's Afghan-Iraqi Freedom Memorialen_US
dc.title.alternativeOregon's Afghan-Iraqi Freedom Memorialen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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