Post Conflict Memorialization

Author : Olivette Otele,Luisa Gandolfo,Yoav Galai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030548872

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Post-Conflict Memorialization by Olivette Otele,Luisa Gandolfo,Yoav Galai Pdf

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary, Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies

Author : Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,Dacia Viejo-Rose,Paola Filippucci
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030180911

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Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,Dacia Viejo-Rose,Paola Filippucci Pdf

Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but instead active triggers of personal and shared emotion, that are inescapably political, bound up with how societies reconstruct their present and future as they negotiate their way out of (and sometimes back into) conflict. A central aim of the book is to highlight and illustrate the cultural and ethical complexity of memorials, as focal points for a tension between the notion of memory as truth, and the practice of memory as negotiable. By adopting a relatively bounded temporal and spatial scope, the volume seeks to move beyond the established focus on national traditions, to reveal cultural commonalities and shared influences in the memorial forms and practices of individual regions and of particular conflicts.

Author : Elisabetta Viggiani
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782384083

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Talking Stones by Elisabetta Viggiani Pdf

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: “Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves.” This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.

Author : Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451903

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Grassroots Memorials by Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero Pdf

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

Author : Titta Kallio-Seppä,Sanna Lipkin,Tiina Väre,Ulla Moilanen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800736030

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Unusual Death and Memorialization by Titta Kallio-Seppä,Sanna Lipkin,Tiina Väre,Ulla Moilanen Pdf

Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. Authors present a selection of cases addressing the issue of unusual deaths, burials, or ways to remember the deceased. Chapters explore theoretical views related to social memory of death and memorializing the deceased and their resting places during modern period. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.

Author : Julian Hopwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936064138

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We Can't Be Sure Who Killed Us by Julian Hopwood Pdf

Author : Nicole Fox
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780299332204

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After Genocide by Nicole Fox Pdf

Nicole Fox investigates the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors decades after massacres have ended. She examines how memorializations can both heal and hurt, especially when they fail to represent all genders, ethnicities, and classes of those afflicted.

Author : Lea David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495189

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The Past Can't Heal Us by Lea David Pdf

Lea David exposes the dangers and pitfalls of mandating memory in the name of human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Author : Heidi Grunebaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351506106

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Memorializing the Past by Heidi Grunebaum Pdf

This work is a meditation on the shaping of time and its impact on living with and understanding atrocity in South Africa in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It is an examination of the ways that the institutionalization of memory has managed perceptions of time and transition, of events and happenings, of sense and emotion, of violence and recovery, of the past and the new. Through this process a public language of memory has been carved into collective modes of meaning. It is a language that seems deprived of the hopes, dreams, and possibilities for the promise of a just and redemptive future it once nurtured.Truth commissions are profoundly implicated in the social politics of memorialization. Memory, as a conceptual, historical, and experiential discourse about the past, relates to the ways in which cruelty is integrated into societal understandings, which include cognitive and philosophic frameworks and constructions of social meaning. The politics of historical truth, of memory and of justice, play out in unintended ways. There is not only the ongoing struggle for survivors of state terror, but also the ways that the everyday shapings of silences, the emptiness of reconciliation and the fracturing of hope remain embedded in political life.

Author : Jessica Auchter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317962472

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The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations by Jessica Auchter Pdf

International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology to consider the politics of life and death, Auchter traces the story of how life and death and a clear division between the two is summoned in the project of statecraft. She argues that by letting ourselves be haunted, or looking for ghosts, it is possible to trace how statecraft relies on the construction of such a dichotomy. Three empirical cases offer fertile ground for complicating the picture often painted of memorialization: Rwandan genocide memorials, the underexplored case of undocumented immigrants who die crossing the US-Mexico border, and the body/ruins nexus in 9/11 memorialization. Focusing on the role of dead bodies and the construction of particular spaces as the appropriate sites for memory to be situated, it offers an alternative take on the new materialisms movement in international relations by asking after the questions that arise from an ethnographic approach to the subject: viewing things from the perspective of dead bodies, who occupy the shadowy world of post-conflict international politics. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical international relations, security studies, statecraft and memory studies.

Author : Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Stefanie Schäfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1780682115

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Memorials in Times of Transition by Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Stefanie Schäfer Pdf

Over the past decades, the practise of and research on transitional justice have expanded to preserving memory in the form of memorials. Yet what are the general roles of memorials in transitions to justice? Who uses or opposes memorials, and to which ends? How û and what û do memorials communicate both explicitly and implicitly to the public? What is their architectural language?

Author : Nigel C. Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139489607

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Memory, War and Trauma by Nigel C. Hunt Pdf

Many millions of people are affected by the trauma of war. Psychologists have a good understanding of how experiences of war impact on memory, but the significance of external environmental influences is often disregarded. Memory, War and Trauma focuses on our understanding of the psychosocial impact of war in its broadest sense. Nigel C. Hunt argues that, in order to understand war trauma, it is critical to develop an understanding not only of the individual perspective but also of how societal and cultural factors impact on the outcome of an individual's experience. This is a compelling book which helps to demonstrate why some people suffer from post-traumatic stress while other people don't, and how narrative understanding is important to the healing process. Its multidisciplinary perspective will enable a deeper understanding of both individual traumatic stress and the structures of memory.

Author : Jelke Boesten,Helen Scanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000389609

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Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts by Jelke Boesten,Helen Scanlon Pdf

This book examines the role of post-conflict memorial arts in bringing about gender justice in transitional societies. Art and post-violence memorialisation are currently widely debated. Scholars of human rights and of commemorative arts discuss the aesthetics and politics not only of sites of commemoration, but of literature, poetry, visual arts and increasingly, film and comics. Art, memory and activism are also increasingly intertwined. But within the literature around post-conflict transitional justice and critical human rights studies, there is little questioning about what memorial arts do for gender justice, how women and men are included and represented, and how this intertwines with other questions of identity and representation, such as race and ethnicity. The book brings together research from scholars around the world who are interested in the gendered dimensions of memory-making in transitional societies. Addressing a global range of cases, including genocide, authoritarianism, civil war, electoral violence and apartheid, they consider not only the gendered commemoration of past violence, but also the possibility of producing counter-narratives that unsettle and challenge established stereotypes. Aimed at those interested in the fields of transitional justice, memory studies, post-conflict peacebuilding, human rights and gender studies, this book will appeal to academics, researchers and practitioners.

Author : Amy Sodaro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813592176

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Exhibiting Atrocity by Amy Sodaro Pdf

Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend: the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest, Hungary; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world.

Author : J. Santino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137120212

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Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death by J. Santino Pdf

This is an edited volume of approximately 17 essays that deal with various types of spontaneous shrines and other, related public memorializations of death. The articles address events such as New York after 9/11; roadside crosses, and the use of 'Day of the Dead' altars to bring attention to deceased undocumented immigrants.