- Summary
- This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the relation between violence, memory and space. Focusing on enforced disappearances and genocide as violent practices aimed at destroying and erasing the traces of the 'enemy', the contributions gathered inquire about the manifold spatial strategies of domination and violence, but also about the powers of memory, resistance and transformation. The originality and core contribution of this book lies in the dialogue it establishes between memory studies, on the one hand, and critical studies of space on the other. The bridging of these academic fields opens up a fertile and, to a large extent, unexplored research area. The volume brings together young academics and prominent international scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields, including Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Literature, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Theatre Studies. The authors engage with the spatial deployment of past and present violence in Argentina, Cambodia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the United States. The chapters include original contributions by renowned authors Aleida Assmann and Jay Winter, transcripts of an interview with the eminent geographer David Harvey and fragments of the play The Cartographer. Warsaw, 1:400,000, by the acclaimed Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, in its first English translation.
- Series
- Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
- Contents
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Introduction: the multi-layered memories of space / Pamela Colombo and Estela Schindel
Spatial inscriptions of annihilation. Violent erasuresá and erasingá violence: contesting Cambodia's landscapes of violence / James A. Tyner
Polish landscapes of memory at the sites of extermination: the politics of framing / Zuzanna Dziuban
Spaces of confrontation and defeat: the spatial dispossession of the revolution in Tucuman, Argentina / Pamela Colombo
Subterranean autopsies: exhumations of mass graves in contemporary Spain / Francisco Ferrandiz
The representation of violence: spatial strategies. Faces, voices, and the shadow of catastrophe / Jay Winter
Theatrical cartography of a space of exception / Juan Mayorga
"The cartographer. Warsaw, 1:400.000" by Juan Mayorga in its first English translation / by Sarah Maitland
"All limits were exceeded over there": the chronotopeof terror in modern warfare and testimony / Kirsten Mahlke
The concentration camp and the "unhomely home": the disappearance of children in post-dicatorship Argentine theatre / Mariana Eva Perez
Haunted spaces, irrupting memories. "The whole country is a monument": framing places of terror in postwar Germany / Aleida Assmann
Haunted houses, horror literature and the space of memory in post-dictatorship Argentine literature / Silvana Mandolessi
Counter-movement, space, and politics: how the Saturday mothers of Turkey make the enforced disappearances visible / Meltem Aahska
An orderly landscape of remnants: notes for reflecting on the spatiality of the disappeared / Gabriel Gatti
A boundless grave: memory and abjection of the Rio de la Plata / Estela Schindel
Spaces of exception, power and resistance. Spatialities of exception / Pilar Calveiro
Imaginary cities, violence and memory: a literary mapping / Gudrun Rath
Occupied squares and the urban "state of exception": in, against and beyond the city of enclaves / Stavros Stavrides
"Memory, that powerful political force": interview with David Harvey.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schindel, Estela, editor.
Colombo, Pamela, 1983- editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: the multi-layered memories of space / Pamela Colombo and Estela Schindel -- Spatial inscriptions of annihilation. Violent erasuresá and erasingá violence: contesting Cambodia's landscapes of violence / James A. Tyner -- Polish landscapes of memory at the sites of extermination: the politics of framing / Zuzanna Dziuban -- Spaces of confrontation and defeat: the spatial dispossession of the revolution in Tucuman, Argentina / Pamela Colombo -- Subterranean autopsies: exhumations of mass graves in contemporary Spain / Francisco Ferrandiz -- The representation of violence: spatial strategies. Faces, voices, and the shadow of catastrophe / Jay Winter -- Theatrical cartography of a space of exception / Juan Mayorga -- "The cartographer. Warsaw, 1:400.000" by Juan Mayorga in its first English translation / by Sarah Maitland -- "All limits were exceeded over there": the chronotopeof terror in modern warfare and testimony / Kirsten Mahlke -- The concentration camp and the "unhomely home": the disappearance of children in post-dicatorship Argentine theatre / Mariana Eva Perez -- Haunted spaces, irrupting memories. "The whole country is a monument": framing places of terror in postwar Germany / Aleida Assmann -- Haunted houses, horror literature and the space of memory in post-dictatorship Argentine literature / Silvana Mandolessi -- Counter-movement, space, and politics: how the Saturday mothers of Turkey make the enforced disappearances visible / Meltem Aahska -- An orderly landscape of remnants: notes for reflecting on the spatiality of the disappeared / Gabriel Gatti -- A boundless grave: memory and abjection of the Rio de la Plata / Estela Schindel -- Spaces of exception, power and resistance. Spatialities of exception / Pilar Calveiro -- Imaginary cities, violence and memory: a literary mapping / Gudrun Rath -- Occupied squares and the urban "state of exception": in, against and beyond the city of enclaves / Stavros Stavrides -- "Memory, that powerful political force": interview with David Harvey.
