Grassroots memorials
Subtitle: the politics of memorializing traumatic death
By: edited by Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sanchez-Carretero
Contributors: Sánchez Carretero, Cristina
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Remapping cultural history -- 12
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857451897; 9780857451903
Subjects: Social aspects; Political aspects; Death; Memorialization; Social movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Difficult remembrance" : memorializing mafia victims in Palermo / Deborah Puccio-Den; title: Ritual mediations of violent death : an ethnography of the Theo van gogh memorial site, Amsterdam / Irene Stengs; title: Between commemoration and social activism : spontaneous shrines, grassroots memorialization, and the public ritualesque in Derry / Jack Santino; title: Memorializing shooters with their victims : Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University / Sylvia Grider; title: Contesting objectionable death; title: Marking death : grief, protest and politics after a fatal traffic accident / Monika Rulfs; title: Ghost bikes : memorialization and protest on city streets / Robert Thomas Dobler; title: Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish cities / Ewa Klekot; title: Remembering la tragedia : commemorations of the floods of 1999 in Venezuela / Sandrine Revet; title: Sociability and reflexive anti-terrorism; title: Street shrines and the writing of disaster : 9/11, New York 2001 / Beatrice Fraenkel; title: The Madrid train bombings : enacting the emotional body at the march 11 grassroots memorials / Cristina Sanchez-Carretero; title: Purification and remembrance : eastern and western ways to deal with the Bali bombing / Huub de Jonge; title: Instrumentalizing repositories of memory; title: Collecting and interpreting spontaneous shrines and memorials / James B. Gardner; title: Piazza Carlo Giuliani. Genova, G8/2001 : death, testimony, memory / Fabio Caffarena & Carlo Stiaccini; title: Memorializing a controversial politician : the "heritageization" of a materialized Vox Populi / Peter Jan Margry.