Altinay / Contreras / Hirsch Women Mobilizing Memory

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54997-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. It emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altinay, Ayse Gül

Contreras, María José

Hirsch, Marianne

Howard, Jean

Karaca, Banu

Solomon, Alisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Practicing Feminism, Practicing Memory, by Marianne Hirsch
Part I. Disrupting Sites
1. Stadium Memories: The Estadio Nacional de Chile and the Reshaping of Space through Women’s Memory, by Katherine Hite and Marita Sturken
2. The Metamorphosis of the Museal: From Exhibitionary to Experiential Complex and Beyond, by Andreas Huyssen
3. Kara Walker: The Memory of Sugar, by Carol Becker
4. Curious Steps: Mobilizing Memory Through Collective Walking and Storytelling in Istanbul, by Bürge Abiral, Ayse Gül Altinay, Dilara Çaliskan,and Armanc Yildiz
5. Pilgrimage As/Or Resistance, by Nancy Kricorian
Part II. Performing Protest
6. Traumatic Memes, by Diana Taylor
7. Memory as Encounter: The Saturday Mothers in Turkey, by Meltem Ahiska
8. Aquí: Performing Mapping Practices in Santiago de Chile, by María José Contreras Lorenzini
9. #NiUnaMenos (#NotOneWomanLess): Hashtag Performativity, Memory, and Direct Action against Gender Violence in Argentina, by Marcela A. Fuentes
10. Mobilizing Academic Labor: The Graduate Workers of Columbia Unionization Campaign, by Andrea Crow and Alyssa Greene
11. “Nobody Is Going To Let You Attend Your Own Funeral”: A Funeral for a Trans Woman and Naming the Unnamed, by Dilara Çaliskan
12. Black Feminist Visions and the Politics of Healing in the Movement for Black Lives, by Deva Woodly
Part III. Interfering Images
13. Instilling Interference: Lorie Novak’s Frequencies in Traumatic Time, by Laura Wexler
14. Siting Absence: Feminist Photography, State Violence, and the Limits of Representation. by Nicole Gervasio
15. Carrie Mae Weems: Rehistoricizing Visual Memory, by Deborah Willis
16. “When Everything Has Been Said Before.”: Art, Dispossession, and the Economies of Forgetting in Turkey, by Banu Karaca
17. Treasures, by Silvina Der-Meguerditchian and Marianne Hirsch
18. Blank: An Attempt at a Conversation, by Susan Meiselas and Isin Önol
Part IV. Staging Resistance
19. Interventionist Theater: Challenging Regimes of Slow Violence, by Jean E. Howard
20. Making Memory: Patricia Ariza’s and Teresa Ralli’s Antígonas, by Leticia Robles-Moreno
21. Theater of the Mothers: Three Political Plays by Marie NDiaye, by Noémie Ndiaye
22. Who Knows Where or When?: AIDS and Theatrical Memory in Queer Time, by Alisa Solomon
Part V. Rewriting Lives
23. El Edificio de los Chilenos (The Building of the Chileans): Heroic Memory Revisited by a Post-Revolutionary Daughter, by Milena Grass Kleiner
24. Remembering “Possibility”: Postmemory and Apocalyptic Hope in Recent Turkish Coup Narratives, by Sibel Irzik
25. Müfide Ferit Tek’s Aydemir Meets Neside K. Demir, or How Women in Mourning Impede Gendered Memories of a Genocidal Past, by Hülya Adak
26. Hilando en la Memoria: Weaving Songs of Resistance in Contemporary Mapuche Political Cultural Activism, by María Soledad Falabella Luco
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Altinay Ayse Gül:
Ayse Gül Altinay (P.h.D, Duke University, Cultural Anthropology) is a Professor of Anthropology in Sabanci University in Turkey. She is the author of The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).Contreras María José:
María José Contreras is a Professor of Theater and performance artist at the Catholic University in Chile. She is a member of the Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference.Hirsch Marianne:
Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her publications include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia, 2012); Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (co-authored with Leo Spitzer) (California, 2010); and Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia, 2011).Howard Jean:
Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She has written The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1993); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (Routledge, 1997); and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).Karaca Banu:
Banu Karaca (P.h.D, Graduate Center-CUNY) is a Visiting Scholar at Sabanci University. She has written articles in International Journal of Cultural Policy and New Perspectives on Turkey. She is the co-founder of “Black Ribbon”, a research platform that documents and analyzes censorship in the arts throughout Turkey.Solomon Alisa:
Alisa Solomon is a professor of Journalism at Columbia University. She has written Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (Metropolitan Books, 2013), Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender (Routledge, 1997) and other works.Ayse Gül Altinay is professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center at Sabanci University.

María José Contreras is a performance artist and associate professor at the Faculty of the Arts of the Universidad Católica de Chile.

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference.

Jean Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Banu Karaca is an assistant professor of anthropology and a Mercator-IPC Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center. She is a cofounder of Siyah Bant, a platform that documents censorship in the arts in Turkey.

Alisa Solomon is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Arts and Culture concentration in the MA program.