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Designing the Pentagon memorial : gendered statecraft, heroic victimhood and site authenticity in war on terror commemoration
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Heath-Kelly, Charlotte (2019) Designing the Pentagon memorial : gendered statecraft, heroic victimhood and site authenticity in war on terror commemoration. Critical Military Studies, 6 (3-4). 269-286 . doi:10.1080/23337486.2019.1677041 ISSN 2333-7486.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2019.1677041
Abstract
How does a memorial curate an image of conflict when it is dwarfed by 6.5million square feet of the Department of Defense, when it is tasked with commemorating simultaneous military and civilian deaths, and when its public access consists of a sliver cut through one of the most secure sites on earth? Given the uniquely inconvenient siting of the Pentagon Memorial, this article argues that the Pentagon Memorial was itself curated by two memorial grammars: contemporary expectations that disaster sites resonate with ‘authenticity’; and that civilians are incorporated into commemorative rhetoric of heroic victimhood, during the War on Terror. These memorial grammars constitute the Pentagon Memorial through gendered logics of statecraft. The memorial is crafted as a response to the sudden violation of the domestic realm on 9/11, as well as the violent entangling of civilian and military victims at the crash site. Its design encircles this moment of violation, where the bodies of ‘protectors’ were entangled with those of the ‘protected’. The memorial freezes time a moment prior to impact – so that the masculine, militarised agents of state defence might once again be distinguished from civilians, and the distinction of inside/outside re-established. The Pentagon Memorial encircles the disruption of gendered logics of statecraft on 9/11, and their restitution.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, War on Terrorism, 2001-, Pentagon Memorial (Va.), Collective memory -- Political aspects, Architecture and society | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Military Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
ISSN: | 2333-7486 | ||||||
Official Date: | 8 October 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||||
Number: | 3-4 | ||||||
Page Range: | 269-286 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/23337486.2019.1677041 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Military Studies on 08/10/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23337486.2019.1677041 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 October 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 April 2021 | ||||||
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