Space and the memories of violence
Subtitle: landscapes of erasure, disappearance and exception
By: Estela Schindel, Universität Konstanz, Germany ; Pamela Colombo, École des HautesÉtudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781137380906
Subjects: Space; Social aspects; Violence; Collective memory; Political aspects; Crimes against humanity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the multi-layered memories of space / Pamela Colombo and Estela Schindel; title: Spatial inscriptions of annihilation. Violent erasuresá and erasingá violence: contesting Cambodia's landscapes of violence / James A. Tyner; title: Polish landscapes of memory at the sites of extermination: the politics of framing / Zuzanna Dziuban; title: Spaces of confrontation and defeat: the spatial dispossession of the revolution in Tucuman, Argentina / Pamela Colombo; title: Subterranean autopsies: exhumations of mass graves in contemporary Spain / Francisco Ferrandiz; title: The representation of violence: spatial strategies. Faces, voices, and the shadow of catastrophe / Jay Winter; title: Theatrical cartography of a space of exception / Juan Mayorga; title: "The cartographer. Warsaw, 1:400.000" by Juan Mayorga in its first English translation / by Sarah Maitland; title: "All limits were exceeded over there": the chronotopeof terror in modern warfare and testimony / Kirsten Mahlke; title: The concentration camp and the "unhomely home": the disappearance of children in post-dicatorship Argentine theatre / Mariana Eva Perez; title: Haunted spaces, irrupting memories. "The whole country is a monument": framing places of terror in postwar Germany / Aleida Assmann; title: Haunted houses, horror literature and the space of memory in post-dictatorship Argentine literature / Silvana Mandolessi; title: Counter-movement, space, and politics: how the Saturday mothers of Turkey make the enforced disappearances visible / Meltem Aahska; title: An orderly landscape of remnants: notes for reflecting on the spatiality of the disappeared / Gabriel Gatti; title: A boundless grave: memory and abjection of the Rio de la Plata / Estela Schindel; title: Spaces of exception, power and resistance. Spatialities of exception / Pilar Calveiro; title: Imaginary cities, violence and memory: a literary mapping / Gudrun Rath; title: Occupied squares and the urban "state of exception": in, against and beyond the city of enclaves / Stavros Stavrides; title: "Memory, that powerful political force": interview with David Harvey.