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Making New Zealanders through commemoration: Assembling Anzac Day in Auckland, 1916–1939
Author(s) -
Henry Matthew
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2006.00044.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , rhetoric , power (physics) , space (punctuation) , event (particle physics) , history , geography , genealogy , media studies , sociology , political science , politics , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Anzac Day in New Zealand has been traditionally framed within a nationalist discourse, in which the events of the day have provided the medium for the remembrance of a singular national event. Moving beyond this interpretative tradition the paper examines Anzac Day as a moment in the exercise of an ongoing governmental power concerned with issues of contemporary conduct. Focusing on interwar Auckland the paper traces the assemblage of time, space and rhetoric, which enabled the production of a commemorative, governmental landscape.