Post-Conflict Memorialization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation

   • Olivette Otele, Luisa Gandolfo, Yoav Galai

   Pages 1-13

3. Articulating Presence of Absence: Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo

   • Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

   Pages 15-34

4. Mourning in Reluctant Sites of Memory: From Afrophobia to Cultural Productivity

   • Olivette Otele

   Pages 35-54

5. Dust on Dust: Performing Selk’nam Visions, Tracing Absent Bodies

   • Andrea Zittlau

   Pages 55-74

6. Absence, Gender, and the Land(Scape) in Palestinian Art

   • Luisa Gandolfo

   Pages 75-100

7. Monumenting Our Pasts: Monuments, What Are They Now?

   • Manca Bajec

   Pages 101-117

8. The Resolution of Doubts: Towards Recognition of the Systematic Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel

   • Yoav Galai, Omri Ben Yehuda

   Pages 119-149

9. The Commemorative Continuum of Partition Violence

   • Kelsey J. Utne

   Pages 151-169

10. Absent Bodies, Present Pasts: Forced Disappearance as Historical Injustice in the Peruvian Highlands

    • Eva Willems

    Pages 171-193

11. Restoring the Human Dignity of Absent Bodies in Colombia

    • Sandra M. Rios Oyola

    Pages 195-212

12. The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization

    • Alexandra Kowalski

    Pages 213-240

13. Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era

    • Olivette Otele, Luisa Gandolfo, Yoav Galai

    Pages 241-252

14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-261

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As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary, Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies

• Memory
• Post-Colonialism
• Conflict
• Peace-Building
• Transitional Justice
• Trauma

• Colonial History, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  Olivette Otele

• Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

  Luisa Gandolfo

• Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

  Yoav Galai

Olivette Otele is Professor of Colonial History and Memory of Slavery at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, and a Fellow and Vice President of the Royal Historical Society.

Luisa Gandolfo is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Yoav Galai is Lecturer in Global Political Communication at the Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London

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