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Space and the Memories of Violence

Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception

  • Estela Schindel
  • Pamela Colombo
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Part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series (PMMS)

Table of contents

  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
    3. Imaginary Cities, Violence and Memory: A Literary Mapping
      Gudrun Rath
      Pages 219-230
    4. Occupied Squares and the Urban ‘State of Exception’: In, Against and Beyond the City of Enclaves
      Stavros Stavrides
      Pages 231-243
    5. ‘Memory, that Powerful Political Force’
      David Harvey
      Pages 244-253
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 254-265
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Space Memory Enforced Disappearances Violence Exception Framing memory violence

Authors and affiliations

  • Estela Schindel
    • 1
  • Pamela Colombo
    • 2
  1. 1.Universität KonstanzGermany
  2. 2.École des Hautes Études en Sciences SocialesFrance

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