Resonant Violence

Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies

Kerry Whigham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2555-0 (ISBN)

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Explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. The book demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

KERRY WHIGHAM is an assistant professor of genocide and mass atrocity prevention at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University in New York. He is also the director of research and online education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. For more information, visit www.kerrywhigham.com.

Introduction: “The Abuse Lives in our Blood”

1. Resonant Violence: The Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath

2. Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin

3. Filling the Absence: Embodied Engagements with Former Sites of Atrocity

4. Embodied Justice: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina

5. Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island

6. Conclusion: Out of the Desert

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2022
Zusatzinfo	17 b-w images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2555-2 / 1978825552
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2555-0 / 9781978825550
Zustand	Neuware