Otele / Gandolfo / Galai Post-Conflict Memorialization

Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-54887-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 269 Seiten

Reihe: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

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

Olivette Otele is Professor of Colonial History and Memory of Slavery at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, and a Fellow and Vice President of the Royal Historical Society.
Luisa Gandolfo is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Yoav Galai is Lecturer in Global Political Communication at the Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London

Autoren/Hrsg.

Otele, Olivette

Gandolfo, Luisa

Galai, Yoav

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1; Acknowledgements;6
2; Contents;7
3; Notes on Contributors;9
4; List of Figures;13
5;1 Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation;14
5.1;1.1 Memory and Trauma in Post-Conflict Communities;17
5.2;1.2 Absence, Remembrance, and Mourning;20
5.3;References;24
6;2 Articulating Presence of Absence: Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo;27
6.1;2.1 Introduction;27
6.1.1;2.1.1 Conceptualising Presence of Absence;29
6.1.2;2.1.2 Articulations of Silence;31
6.1.3;2.1.3 Silences and the Siege of Sarajevo;32
6.1.4;2.1.4 Commemoration, Art and the Presence of Absence;38
6.1.5;2.1.5 The Red Line of Sarajevo;40
6.1.6;2.1.6 Connecting Silence, Aesthetic Representation and Peace;41
6.2;2.2 Conclusions;43
6.3;References;44
7;3 Mourning in Reluctant Sites of Memory: From Afrophobia to Cultural Productivity;47
7.1;References;64
8;4 Dust on Dust: Performing Selk’nam Visions, Tracing Absent Bodies;67
8.1;4.1 The Shoes;68
8.2;4.2 Those Who Walked in the Shoes;72
8.3;4.3 Ghosts;77
8.4;4.4 Haunting;80
8.5;References;85
9;5 Absence, Gender, and the Land(Scape) in Palestinian Art;87
9.1;5.1 Gendering the Land and the Landscape;89
9.2;5.2 The Fading Landscape;93
9.3;5.3 Absence and the Figure of the Mother;98
9.4;5.4 Embodying Loss and Exile;103
9.5;References;109
10;6 Monumenting Our Pasts: Monuments, What Are They Now?;113
10.1;References;128
11;7 The Resolution of Doubts: Towards Recognition of the Systematic Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel;130
11.1;7.1 Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair;133
11.2;7.2 The Abductions: How Were They Even Possible?;136
11.3;7.3 The Crime of the Silencing: How Is It Not Possible?;140
11.3.1;7.3.1 In the Cultural Sphere;140
11.4;7.4 In Official State Inquiries;142
11.5;7.5 Back to the Near Past: 2017—Establishing a New Committee of Inquiry;144
11.6;7.6 The Resolution of Doubts: The Commission at Work;147
11.7;7.7 Cover-Ups;152
11.8;7.8 Into the Stock of Stories: Two Kinds of Truths;154
11.9;References;157
12;8 The Commemorative Continuum of Partition Violence;161
12.1;8.1 The Partitioning of India and Pakistan;163
12.2;8.2 (Not) Memorializing Partition: Missing Memorials and Avoidance;164
12.3;8.3 Commemorating Independence Sans Partition;166
12.4;8.4 Silences and Scholarly Interventions;171
12.5;8.5 The Digital and Diasporic Turns;172
12.6;8.6 Conclusion: A Partition Museum at Last?;175
12.7;References;176
13;9 Absent Bodies, Present Pasts: Forced Disappearance as Historical Injustice in the Peruvian Highlands;180
13.1;9.1 Introduction;180
13.2;9.2 The Peruvian Civil War (1980–2000) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001–2003);184
13.3;9.3 Forced Disappearances in Yachay;186
13.4;9.4 Mourning in Absence of Bodies: ‘the Disappeared Exist, but They Are Not Here’;188
13.5;9.5 Mourning in Absence of Acknowledgment: The Disappeared Are Here, but They Do Not Exist;192
13.6;9.6 The Role of the Dead in Achieving Social Justice in the Present;195
13.7;9.7 Conclusion: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Searching for the Disappeared;198
13.8;References;200
14;10 Restoring the Human Dignity of Absent Bodies in Colombia;203
14.1;10.1 Introduction;203
14.2;10.2 Human Dignity in Transitional Justice;204
14.3;10.3 The Human Dignity of Absent Bodies;207
14.4;10.4 The Restoration of Victims’ Dignity in Colombia;210
14.5;10.5 The Process of Dignification of Victims with Absent Bodies;213
14.6;10.6 Conclusion;216
14.7;References;217
15;11 The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization;221
15.1;11.1 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence I: The Screen Memorial;226
15.2;11.2 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence II: The Ambiguous Memorial;228
15.3;11.3 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence III: The Wandering Memorial;231
15.4;11.4 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence IV: The Non-memorial;236
15.5;11.5 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence V: The Invisible Memorial;240
15.6;11.6 Conclusion;244
15.7;References;245
16;12 Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era;249
16.1;References;258
17;Index;261