Archiving Loss

Holding Places for Difficult Memories
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4724-4992-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 243 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: Memory Studies: Global Constellations

Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories asks how we might cut and walk a path for memory, loss, and silence in the archive. The difficult events discussed in this book include state responses to refugees, events of genocide, alongside other less documented pockets of trauma, violence, and loss. This book describes the archives whose language and logic have shaped our ways we remember and respond to difficult events and the ways in which we expect memory and loss to be coherent, credible, and lead to clear conclusions. In asking what is missing and what is found in the archives of difficult events this book argues for the necessity of looking more closely at other ways of remembering loss and archiving memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawkes, Martine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Pouring Memory

Part I: The Archive

Chapter 1: Power in the Archives

Chapter 2: Expectations in the Archive

Chapter 3: Archives and Difficult Events

Part II: Archive Fever

Chapter 4: Counting to Discount

Chapter 5: The Language and Logic of the Archive

Part III: Remembering in the Archive

Chapter 6: Archival Filters

Chapter 7: The Archive as a Gate Opener

Chapter 8: Loss and the Archive

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martine Louise Hawkes, PhD, is a researcher based at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Her research interests centre on the landscapes and places of memory and social and personal constructions of memory after loss.