Speaker/Event:
Nicky Gregson
Geography, University of Sheffield
Souvenir Salvage and the Death of Great
Naval Ships
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Place: Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Nicky Gregson spoke in the Modern
Design History Seminar Wednesday, December 8, 2010, on “Souvenir Salvage and
the Death of Great Naval Ships.”
Nicky Gregson is the Director of an
Economic and Social Research Council funded project, The Waste of the World, a
five-year research program bringing together researchers in geography,
anthropology and materials science from the University of Sheffield, Durham
University, University College London, Goldsmiths College London, and
researchers in South Asia, to study the global impact and approach to waste
Description:
Gregson’s talk is entitled “Souvenir
salvage and the death of great naval ships.” This talk examines the social and
physical death of naval ships as a form of military material culture. It draws
on ethnographic research with veterans’ associations in the UK and US, and in a
UK ship breaking yard, to explore the relationship of a naval ship’s social and
physical death to memorialisation, souvenir manufacture and souvenir salvage.
For ex-navy personnel, it is normative to memorialize a naval ship through a
range of manufactured souvenirs worn in everyday life. The social death of
naval ships has, until recently, been largely disconnected from the sites of
their physical death, or destruction, but the advent of ethical disposal
policies in the UK
Keywords:
military; culture; material; wars;
naval history; ships; ethnography; merchant navy
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