Mediating militarism: Chronicalling 100 years of British 'Military Victimhood' from print to digital, 1918-2018

调解军国主义：从印刷到数字记录英国“军事受害者”100 年，1918 年至 2018 年

• 批准号: 2107207
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2107207
• 关键词: Mediating; militarism; Chronicalling; 100; years

Mediating Militarism: Chronicling 100 Years of Military Victimhood from Print to Digital, 1918-2018 aims to assess militarism and its role in the commemoration of the British war dead since the end of the First World War. 2018 marks the centenary of the cessation of the First World War and provides a framework through which this research project will develop. The project will take advantage of unique access to print and digital materials captured and held by the British Library in order to chronicle the changing public portrayal of the British war dead from the print to the digital age, evaluating the role this portrayal plays in the mediation of militarism in the process. No one definitive example of militarism exists throughout history, as each manifestation of the concept varies in one way or another. All examples may be intrinsically linked to ideals such as the glorification of war-like thinking, but in diametrically opposed socio-political environments these realisations of militarism can take forms often unrecognisable to one another. From this basis, militarism manifests itself in a variety of ways that depend heavily on contemporary politics, alongside both military and social developments. In the case of Britain, national narratives surrounding the First World War have played a key role in the development of the nation's own form of militarism. The nature of Britain's involvement in the First World War meant that following the Armistice of 11th November 1918, a multitude of commemorative practices were developed in order to facilitate the mourning of an entire nation. British soldiers who had died abroad were not repatriated following the war meaning tangible sites of mourning were created as focal points of British remembrance. Through the development of a unique language and symbology surrounding the commemoration of the war dead these commemorative practices continue into the present day and have saturated British attitudes to the military and the waging of war. This research project will first chronicle this past century of representations of what is referred to as 'military victimhood' through both print and digital resources curated by the British Library. These cultural artefacts will then be interrogated so as to explore how representations of this 'military victimhood' have potentially acted as mediators of militarism in British society. Through the examination of these resources methodological practices will be developed in relation to working with mixed collections, such as the British Library's newspaper collections and the UK Web Archive, and will feed into curatorial work on the capture, storage and navigation of such resources. Finally, it is hoped that these processes will aid the British Library in better understanding the value, challenges and limitations of their print and digital collections, and how their future use can be enhanced for researchers in the social sciences.

《调解军国主义：从印刷到数字记录100年的军事受害者，1918-2018》旨在评估军国主义及其在纪念第一次世界大战结束以来英国战争死者中的作用。2018年是第一次世界大战结束100周年，并为本研究项目的发展提供了一个框架。该项目将利用大英图书馆捕获和持有的独特的印刷和数字材料，以记录从印刷到数字时代英国战争死者的公众形象的变化，评估这种形象在军国主义调解过程中所起的作用。纵观历史，军国主义没有一个明确的例子，因为这一概念的每一种表现都以这样或那样的方式有所不同。所有的例子都可能与美化战争思想等理想有着内在的联系，但在截然相反的社会政治环境中，这些军国主义的实现往往会以彼此难以辨认的形式出现。在此基础上，军国主义以多种方式表现出来，这些方式严重依赖于当代政治，以及军事和社会发展。以英国为例，围绕第一次世界大战的民族叙事在英国军国主义的发展中发挥了关键作用。英国参与第一次世界大战的性质意味着在1918年11月11日停战后，为了促进整个国家的哀悼，大量的纪念活动被发展起来。战争结束后，死在国外的英国士兵没有被遣返回国，这意味着有形的哀悼场所被建立起来，作为英国人纪念的焦点。通过一种独特的语言和象征符号的发展，围绕着纪念战争死者，这些纪念活动一直持续到今天，并渗透了英国人对军队和发动战争的态度。这个研究项目将首先通过大英图书馆策划的印刷和数字资源，对过去一个世纪被称为“军事受害者”的表现进行编年史。然后，这些文化文物将被审讯，以探索这种“军事受害者”的表征如何在英国社会中潜在地充当军国主义的调解人。通过对这些资源的考察，将开发出与混合馆藏（如大英图书馆的报纸馆藏和英国网络档案馆）相关的方法实践，并将用于此类资源的获取、存储和导航的策展工作。最后，希望这些过程能够帮助大英图书馆更好地理解其印刷和数字馆藏的价值、挑战和局限性，以及如何在未来为社会科学研究人员提供更好的利用。