Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: Interventions
Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: Interventions
ISBN: 978-0-415-72039-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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.
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1. Ghostly Politics: An Introduction, 2. ‘We’re All of Us Haunting and Haunted’, 3. Border Monuments: Memory, Counter-Memory, and (b)Ordering practices along the US-Mexico Border, 4. Bones in a Brown Bag: Haunting and the Place of the Body in Rwandan Genocide Memorialization, 5. Vanishing Monuments: Absence and 9/11 Memorialization, 6. Conclusions: After Ghostly Politics