FoE Research Seminar: Dr Anna Liddle: “Your School Needs You to Wear a Poppy” Exclusions and inclusions in school war remembrance

<p>Seminar held on  <strong>6th April 2022 in the Faculty of Education, Edge Hill (Online). </strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Paper given by Dr Anna Liddle: “Your School Needs You to Wear a Poppy” Exclusions and inclusions in school war remembrance</strong></p> <p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Due to the recent centenary of World War One there has been an increased interest in how war is commemorated in English schools. In this seminar I will draw upon an in-depth case study of a diverse school in northern England to analyse how remembrance is performed within the space of the school. I identify a ‘Red Poppy Remembrance Discourse’ (RPRD) which reproduces a white, militarised, nationalistic approach to remembrance. Overall, I suggest that remembrance practices of this type normalise war and are symptomatic of what Galtung refers to as ‘cultural violence’.</p>