Memory and Genocide

On What Remains and the Possibility of Representation
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4724-8201-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Memory Studies: Global Constellations

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present. Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are inseparable companions and we find the idea of the untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice, sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buchenhorst, Ralph

Moradi, Fazil

Six-Hohenbalken, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Preface, by Günther Schlee

Introduction: The Past in Translation

Fazil Moradi, Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Ralph Buchenhorst

- Intimate Interrogations: The Literary Grammar of Communal Violence

Christi Merill

- Oral Performers and Memory of Mass Violence: Dynamics of Collective and Individual Remembering

Laury Ocen

- Parallel Readings: Narratives of Violence

Éva Kovács

- Genocide in Translation: On Memory, Remembrance, and Politics of the Future

Fazil Moradi

- Remembering the Poison Gas Attack on Halabja: Questions of Representations in the Emergence of Memory on Genocide

Maria Six-Hohenbalken

- Afterlives of Genocide: Return of Human Bodies from Berlin to Windhoek, 2011

Memory Biwa

- Communicating the Unthinkable: A Psychodynamic Perspective

Ivana Macek

- Between Nakba, Shoah and Apartheid: Notes on a Film from the Interstices

Heidi Grunebaum

- The Rethinking of Remembering: Who Lays Claim to Speech in the Wake of Catastrophe?

Rachmi Diyah Larasati

- Field, Forum, and Vilified Art: Recent Developments in the Representation of Mass Violence and its Remembrance

Ralph Buchenhorst

Afterword: Wonder Woman, the Gutter, and Critical Genocide Studies

Alexander Laban Hinton

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fazil Moradi is finalizing his PhD thesis at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.
Ralph Buchenhorst is a Senior Researcher at Halle University. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna and his habilitation from the University of Potsdam in Germany. Buchenhorst has been a DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (2002–2006) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013).
Maria Six-Hohenbalken is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.