Post-Conflict Memorialization - Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies
von: Olivette Otele, Luisa Gandolfo, Yoav Galai
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
ISBN: 9783030548872
Sprache: Englisch
269 Seiten, Download: 3863 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Acknowledgements | 6 | ||
| Contents | 7 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 9 | ||
| List of Figures | 13 | ||
| 1 Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation | 14 | ||
| 1.1 Memory and Trauma in Post-Conflict Communities | 17 | ||
| 1.2 Absence, Remembrance, and Mourning | 20 | ||
| References | 24 | ||
| 2 Articulating Presence of Absence: Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo | 27 | ||
| 2.1 Introduction | 27 | ||
| 2.1.1 Conceptualising Presence of Absence | 29 | ||
| 2.1.2 Articulations of Silence | 31 | ||
| 2.1.3 Silences and the Siege of Sarajevo | 32 | ||
| 2.1.4 Commemoration, Art and the Presence of Absence | 38 | ||
| 2.1.5 The Red Line of Sarajevo | 40 | ||
| 2.1.6 Connecting Silence, Aesthetic Representation and Peace | 41 | ||
| 2.2 Conclusions | 43 | ||
| References | 44 | ||
| 3 Mourning in Reluctant Sites of Memory: From Afrophobia to Cultural Productivity | 47 | ||
| References | 64 | ||
| 4 Dust on Dust: Performing Selk’nam Visions, Tracing Absent Bodies | 67 | ||
| 4.1 The Shoes | 68 | ||
| 4.2 Those Who Walked in the Shoes | 72 | ||
| 4.3 Ghosts | 77 | ||
| 4.4 Haunting | 80 | ||
| References | 85 | ||
| 5 Absence, Gender, and the Land(Scape) in Palestinian Art | 87 | ||
| 5.1 Gendering the Land and the Landscape | 89 | ||
| 5.2 The Fading Landscape | 93 | ||
| 5.3 Absence and the Figure of the Mother | 98 | ||
| 5.4 Embodying Loss and Exile | 103 | ||
| References | 109 | ||
| 6 Monumenting Our Pasts: Monuments, What Are They Now? | 113 | ||
| References | 128 | ||
| 7 The Resolution of Doubts: Towards Recognition of the Systematic Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel | 130 | ||
| 7.1 Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair | 133 | ||
| 7.2 The Abductions: How Were They Even Possible? | 136 | ||
| 7.3 The Crime of the Silencing: How Is It Not Possible? | 140 | ||
| 7.3.1 In the Cultural Sphere | 140 | ||
| 7.4 In Official State Inquiries | 142 | ||
| 7.5 Back to the Near Past: 2017—Establishing a New Committee of Inquiry | 144 | ||
| 7.6 The Resolution of Doubts: The Commission at Work | 147 | ||
| 7.7 Cover-Ups | 152 | ||
| 7.8 Into the Stock of Stories: Two Kinds of Truths | 154 | ||
| References | 157 | ||
| 8 The Commemorative Continuum of Partition Violence | 161 | ||
| 8.1 The Partitioning of India and Pakistan | 163 | ||
| 8.2 (Not) Memorializing Partition: Missing Memorials and Avoidance | 164 | ||
| 8.3 Commemorating Independence Sans Partition | 166 | ||
| 8.4 Silences and Scholarly Interventions | 171 | ||
| 8.5 The Digital and Diasporic Turns | 172 | ||
| 8.6 Conclusion: A Partition Museum at Last? | 175 | ||
| References | 176 | ||
| 9 Absent Bodies, Present Pasts: Forced Disappearance as Historical Injustice in the Peruvian Highlands | 180 | ||
| 9.1 Introduction | 180 | ||
| 9.2 The Peruvian Civil War (1980–2000) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001–2003) | 184 | ||
| 9.3 Forced Disappearances in Yachay | 186 | ||
| 9.4 Mourning in Absence of Bodies: ‘the Disappeared Exist, but They Are Not Here’ | 188 | ||
| 9.5 Mourning in Absence of Acknowledgment: The Disappeared Are Here, but They Do Not Exist | 192 | ||
| 9.6 The Role of the Dead in Achieving Social Justice in the Present | 195 | ||
| 9.7 Conclusion: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Searching for the Disappeared | 198 | ||
| References | 200 | ||
| 10 Restoring the Human Dignity of Absent Bodies in Colombia | 203 | ||
| 10.1 Introduction | 203 | ||
| 10.2 Human Dignity in Transitional Justice | 204 | ||
| 10.3 The Human Dignity of Absent Bodies | 207 | ||
| 10.4 The Restoration of Victims’ Dignity in Colombia | 210 | ||
| 10.5 The Process of Dignification of Victims with Absent Bodies | 213 | ||
| 10.6 Conclusion | 216 | ||
| References | 217 | ||
| 11 The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization | 221 | ||
| 11.1 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence I: The Screen Memorial | 226 | ||
| 11.2 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence II: The Ambiguous Memorial | 228 | ||
| 11.3 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence III: The Wandering Memorial | 231 | ||
| 11.4 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence IV: The Non-memorial | 236 | ||
| 11.5 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence V: The Invisible Memorial | 240 | ||
| 11.6 Conclusion | 244 | ||
| References | 245 | ||
| 12 Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era | 249 | ||
| References | 258 | ||
| Index | 261 |