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ER dE i teE dN bA y VC aT nM e sE s aN AT g nC ewA , SSE a b iS neT SU tD a cI hE , aS n d J u l i a n e T Routledge Studies in Modern History o m a n n REENACTMENT CASE STUDIES GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERIENTIAL HISTORY Edited by Vanessa Agnew, Sabine Stach, and Juliane Tomann Reenactment Case Studies Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment’s challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that encompasses living history, his- torical reality television, performance art, theater, historically informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live- action role-play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative, and the subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge- making, representation, and commemoration. Yet, in terms of its historical subject matter, styles, and subcultures, reenactment is often nation- ally or locally inflected. The book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones, as well as to the spread of new populisms and postcolonial and decolonizing movements. The book is the first to address these questions through reenactment case studies drawn from various world regions. Forming a companion volume to the Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field (2020), Reenactment Case Studies is aimed at a wide academic readership, especially in the fields of history, film studies, memory studies, performance studies, museum and heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, and anthropology. Vanessa Agnew is a Professor of Anglophone Studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen. She directs the Critical Thinking Program of Academy in Exile at Freie Universität Berlin and is Honorary Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at The Australian National University. Sabine Stach is a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig. Her research focus is on Czech and Polish contemporary history, public history, and tourism. From 2015 to 2020 she worked at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Juliane Tomann is a Junior Professor for Public History at Regensburg Uni- versity. Her teaching and research interests focus on practices of doing his- tory in popular culture in Central-Eastern Europe and the USA. Previously she was the head of the research unit “History in the public sphere” at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. 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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-138-33396-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-32455-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-44566-8 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9780429445668 Typeset in Times by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. This book is dedicated to my mother, Patricia J. Agnew, who always likes trying something new—VA. Contents List of Figures x List of Contributors xiv Acknowledgments xxi 1 Introduction: Global Reenactment, Local Practices? 1 VANESSA AGNEW, SABINE STACH, AND JULIANE TOMANN PART I Raising Questions of Evidence 15 2 Reenacting 9/11 on Screen 17 JAMES CHANDLER 3 Crime Scene: Reconstruction in the Works of Forensic Architecture and Robert Kuśmirowski 37 DOROTA SOSNOWSKA 4 Indigenous, I Presume?: Unexpected Outcomes of Repatriation and Reenactments of Photographic Archives in the Upper Amazon 54 CHRISTIAN VIUM PART II Reaffirming Understandings of the Past 75 5 In Honor of the Forefathers: Archaeological Reenactment between History Appropriation and Ideological Mission. The Case of Ulfhednar 77 RALF HOPPADIETZ AND KARIN REICHENBACH viii Contents 6 Retracing the Revolution: Partisan Reenactments in Socialist Yugoslavia 105 NIKOLA BAKOVIĆ 7 Reenacting the Revolution: The Sacred Site of Yan’an in Contemporary China 125 MARC ANDRE MATTEN 8 Reenacting Japan’s Past That Never Was: The Ninja in Tourism and Larp 146 BJÖRN-OLE KAMM PART III Challenging Narratives about the Past 171 9 “Are We Heroes Too?”: Reenacting the 1949 Offensive against the Dutch Occupation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia 173 LISE ZURNÉ 10 Expedition and Reenactment: Recovering the Ottoman Past through Creating the Evliya Çelebi Way 195 DONNA LANDRY AND GERALD MACLEAN 11 “You can’t just put men in the field and be accurate”: Women in American Revolutionary War Reenactment 217 JULIANE TOMANN PART IV Restaging Lives 235 12 Exhibition as Reenactment: Kazimir Malevich at the Tretiakov Gallery, 1929 237 MARIE GASPER-HULVAT 13 The Body as Time Machine: Reenactment in Lola Arias’s Documentary Performance 253 BRENDA WERTH 14 On Motives for Reenactment: The Example of the Kindertransport 272 BILL NIVEN Contents ix PART V Negotiating Justice 285 15 Reenacting the Cambodian Genocide: Performances of Memory in Ella Pugliese’s Documentary Movie We Want [u] to Know (2009) 287 STÉPHANIE BENZAQUEN-GAUTIER 16 Performing Violence: Trauma and Reenactment in Documentary Film 308 CHARLEY BOERMAN AND BORIS NOORDENBOS Index 333
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