Space and the Memories of Violence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: The Multi-Layered Memories of Space

   1. Introduction: The Multi-Layered Memories of Space

      • Pamela Colombo, Estela Schindel

      Pages 1-17

3. Spatial Inscriptions of Annihilation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Violent Erasures and Erasing Violence: Contesting Cambodia’s Landscapes of Violence

      • James A. Tyner

      Pages 21-33

   3. Polish Landscapes of Memory at the Sites of Extermination: The Politics of Framing

      • Zuzanna Dziuban

      Pages 34-47

   4. Spaces of Confrontation and Defeat: The Spatial Dispossession of the Revolution in Tucumán, Argentina

      • Pamela Colombo

      Pages 48-60

   5. Subterranean Autopsies: Exhumations of Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain

      • Francisco Ferrándiz

      Pages 61-73

4. The Representation of Violence: Spatial Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Faces, Voices and the Shadow of Catastrophe

      • Jay Winter

      Pages 77-90

   3. The Cartographer. Warsaw, 1: 400,000

      • Juan Mayorga

      Pages 91-104

   4. ’All Limits Were Exceeded Over There’: The Chronotope of Terror in Modern Warfare and Testimony

      • Kirsten Mahlke

      Pages 105-118

   5. The Concentration Camp and the ‘Unhomely Home’: The Disappearance of Children in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Theatre

      • Mariana Eva Perez

      Pages 119-131

5. Haunted Spaces, Irrupting Memories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. ’The Whole Country Is a Monument’: Framing Places of Terror in Post-War Germany

      • Aleida Assmann

      Pages 135-149

   3. Haunted Houses, Horror Literature and the Space of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Literature

      • Silvana Mandolessi

      Pages 150-161

   4. Counter-Movement, Space and Politics: How the Saturday Mothers of Turkey Make Enforced Disappearances Visible

      • Meltem Ahiska

      Pages 162-175

   5. An Orderly Landscape of Remnants: Notes for Reflecting on the Spatiality of the Disappeared

      • Gabriel Gatti

      Pages 176-187

   6. A Limitless Grave: Memory and Abjection of the Río de la Plata

      • Estela Schindel

      Pages 188-201

6. Spaces of Exception, Power and Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Spatialities of Exception

      • Pilar Calveiro

      Pages 205-218

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.

• Space
• Memory
• Enforced
• Disappearances
• Violence
• Exception
• Framing
• memory
• violence

"This ground-breaking book has an impressive sweep of theoretical, geographical and historical engagement with totalitarian state violence, space and memory. It will be an important source for those working with power, space, violence, geography and memory across a range of arts, humanities and social science subjects." - Owain Jones, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, UK

• Universität Konstanz, Germany

  Estela Schindel

• École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France

  Pamela Colombo

Meltem Ah?ska, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Pilar Calveiro Garrido, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico Pamela Colombo, EHESS-IRIS, France Zuzanna Dziuban University of Konstanz, Germany Francisco Ferrándiz, Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, Spain Gabriel Gatti, University of the Basque Country, Spain David Harvey, City University of New York (CUNY), USA Kirsten Mahlke, University of Konstanz, Germany Silvana Mandolessi, University of Konstanz, Germany Juan Mayorga, Playwright and Philosopher, Spain Mariana Eva Perez, University of Konstanz, Germany Gudrun Rath, University of Konstanz, Germany Estela Schindel, University of Konstanz, Germany Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens, Greece James Tyner, Kent University, USA Jay M. Winter, Yale University, USA

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