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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schindel, Estela
• Colombo, Pamela

Titel

Space and the Memories of Violence : Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2014

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Multi-Layered Memories of Space; Part I: Spatial Inscriptions of Annihilation; 1 Violent Erasures and Erasing Violence: Contesting Cambodia's Landscapes of Violence; 2 Polish Landscapes of Memory at the Sites of Extermination: The Politics of Framing; 3 Spaces of Confrontation and Defeat: The Spatial Dispossession of the Revolution in Tucumán, Argentina; 4 Subterranean Autopsies: Exhumations of Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain; Part II: The Representation of Violence: Spatial Strategies
• 5 Faces, Voices and the Shadow of Catastrophe6 The Cartographer. Warsaw, 1: 400,000; 7 'All Limits Were Exceeded Over There': The Chronotope of Terror in Modern Warfare and Testimony; 8 The Concentration Camp and the 'Unhomely Home': The Disappearance of Children in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Theatre; Part III: Haunted Spaces, Irrupting Memories; 9 'The Whole Country Is a Monument': Framing Places of Terror in Post-War Germany; 10 Haunted Houses, Horror Literature and the Space of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Literature
• 11 Counter-Movement, Space and Politics: How the Saturday Mothers of Turkey Make Enforced Disappearances Visible12 An Orderly Landscape of Remnants: Notes for Reflecting on the Spatiality of the Disappeared; 13 A Limitless Grave: Memory and Abjection of the Río de la Plata; Part IV: Spaces of Exception, Power and Resistance; 14 Spatialities of Exception; 15 Imaginary Cities, Violence and Memory: A Literary Mapping; 16 Occupied Squares and the Urban 'State of Exception': In, Against and Beyond the City of Enclaves; 17 'Memory, that Powerful Political Force'; Index
• Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.
• English