We are very pleased to be giving away two copies of Rowan Light’s book ‘Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia 1965 – 2015’ to our GrownUps members.
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About Anzac Nations
“This book is an examination of how the commemoration of the Anzacs contributes to our sense of national belonging. It’s the whole backstory as to why we remember Gallipoli and how we think and feel about it.” – Rowan Light.
The legacy of Gallipoli has become one of the most powerful expressions of identity in New Zealand and Australia in recent years. But this wasn’t always the case.
In Anzac Nations author Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac and how commemoration has evolved – from 1965, when many assumed that the tradition of remembering the Anzacs would not survive beyond the death of the last Gallipoli veteran, to the Anzac Centenary in 2015 when the Australian federal government outspent all other countries, and New Zealand’s centenary programme was the largest commemoration in the country’s history.
Anzac Nations explores how societies make meaning and express value and beliefs through practices such as remembrance and commemoration. Why do we see the Gallipoli campaign, fought over a hundred years ago in a far-flung corner of the world, as an expression of national belonging? What shapes this collective remembrance in Australia and New Zealand and how do commemorations differ between the nations? Who has authority over what is – and is not – remembered on 25 April, and why does this national memory focus so heavily on the place and experience of Gallipoli, rather than on other aspects of past violence at home or abroad?
The book examines three key aspects: the changing and contested meanings of Anzac from the 1960s to the 1980s; the expanded role of the state in commemoration since 1990; and responses to these shifts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
In Anzac Nations, Rowan Light brings together stories and evidence from both sides of the Tasman, offering a sweeping panorama of memory that includes writers and filmmakers, protestors and prime ministers, and public audiences who have come to see Anzac Day as their own.
Rowan Light is a Pākehā historian at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau where he teaches Aotearoa New Zealand histories. He is also project curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, assisting with research on the history, remembrance and commemoration of the New Zealand Wars.
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murphy kevin - 2 years ago
My Grand Father was in the Royal Navy at Gallipoli and saved 4 French Sailors from enemy Fire and from Drowning! He was awarded the Criox de Guierre
by the French Government. His medals are now in the Navy Museum at Devonport, Auckland for all to see! He came to NZ in 1921.He became a boat builder on the Manukau Harbour!