Memorializing Violence

Transnational Feminist Reflections
Herausgeber: Crosby, Alison; Evans, Heather

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what’s at stake in memorializing amidst and against ongoing harm and injustice produced by white supremacist global capitalist empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978843257
• ISBN-10: 1978843259
• Artikelnr.: 70889898

Autorenporträt

Alison Crosby is an associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, York University, Toronto. Heather Evans is a research assistant at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: A Transnational Feminist Approach to Memorialization
Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Chapter 1: Tracing Absent Presence
Malathi de Alwis
Part I: The Colonial, Imperial Logics of Memorializing
Chapter 2: Law’s Racial Memory  
Carmela Murdocca
                                                                                       
Chapter 3: Toward a Queer Diasporic Remembrance of Air India Flight 182:
Memorializing Transnational Flows of Loss and Desire
Amber
Dean                                                                                                                                      
Part II: Inhabiting Loss, Exceeding the Frame  
Chapter 4: “I Am Here for Justice and I Am Here for Change”: Reflections on
Anticolonial Remembering within the National Inquiry into Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Karine Duhamel
Chapter 5: Transnational Contestations: Remembering Sexual Violence in
Postgenocide Guatemala
Alison Crosby, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, and María de los Ángeles
Aguilar           
Chapter 6: Poetics and Politics of Sound Memory and Social Repair in the
Afterlives of Mass Violence: The Cantadoras of the Atrato River of Colombia
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá                                                     
Part III: Invoking Revolutionary Present Pasts
Chapter 7: Figures of Dissent: Women’s Memoirs of Defiance
Shahrzad Mojab
Chapter 8: Filming Disappearance: An Account of a Visual Battle
Chowra Makaremi
Chapter 9: Dialita Choir: Women Survivors Reclaiming History in Indonesia
Ayu Ratih        
Part IV: Care in/as Collective Mourning
Chapter 10: Ceremonies of Mourning, Remembrance, and Care in the Context of
Violence: A Conversation about Performing Song for the Beloved
Honor Ford-Smith and Juanita Stephen
Chapter 11: Maternal Activism and the Politics of Memorialization in the
Mothers of the Movement: A Black Feminist Reading
Erica S. Lawson and Ola Osman
Chapter 12: The Embroidering for Peace Initiative: Crafting Feminist
Politics and Memorializing Resistance to the “War on Drugs” in Mexico
Cordelia Rizzo
Chapter 13: Epigraph 24584 In Which She Talks to the Dead and Sometimes
the Dead Talk Back + artist’s statement, The Dead Talk Back
Charlotte Henay
Part V: On Worlding
Chapter 14: Dreams to Remember: A Conversation on Unsilencing the Archive:
An Afronautic Approach
Camille Turner, Mila Mendez, and Heather Evans
Acknowledgments
Bibliography                                                                                                              
    
Notes on Contributors
Index