Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies

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Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1 Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation 1.1 Memory and Trauma in Post-Conflict Communities 1.2 Absence, Remembrance, and Mourning References 2 Articulating Presence of Absence: Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Conceptualising Presence of Absence 2.1.2 Articulations of Silence 2.1.3 Silences and the Siege of Sarajevo 2.1.4 Commemoration, Art and the Presence of Absence 2.1.5 The Red Line of Sarajevo 2.1.6 Connecting Silence, Aesthetic Representation and Peace 2.2 Conclusions References 3 Mourning in Reluctant Sites of Memory: From Afrophobia to Cultural Productivity References 4 Dust on Dust: Performing Selk’nam Visions, Tracing Absent Bodies 4.1 The Shoes 4.2 Those Who Walked in the Shoes 4.3 Ghosts 4.4 Haunting References 5 Absence, Gender, and the Land(Scape) in Palestinian Art 5.1 Gendering the Land and the Landscape 5.2 The Fading Landscape 5.3 Absence and the Figure of the Mother 5.4 Embodying Loss and Exile References 6 Monumenting Our Pasts: Monuments, What Are They Now? References 7 The Resolution of Doubts: Towards Recognition of the Systematic Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel 7.1 Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair 7.2 The Abductions: How Were They Even Possible? 7.3 The Crime of the Silencing: How Is It Not Possible? 7.3.1 In the Cultural Sphere 7.4 In Official State Inquiries 7.5 Back to the Near Past: 2017—Establishing a New Committee of Inquiry 7.6 The Resolution of Doubts: The Commission at Work 7.7 Cover-Ups 7.8 Into the Stock of Stories: Two Kinds of Truths References 8 The Commemorative Continuum of Partition Violence 8.1 The Partitioning of India and Pakistan 8.2 (Not) Memorializing Partition: Missing Memorials and Avoidance 8.3 Commemorating Independence Sans Partition 8.4 Silences and Scholarly Interventions 8.5 The Digital and Diasporic Turns 8.6 Conclusion: A Partition Museum at Last? References 9 Absent Bodies, Present Pasts: Forced Disappearance as Historical Injustice in the Peruvian Highlands 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Peruvian Civil War (1980–2000) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001–2003) 9.3 Forced Disappearances in Yachay 9.4 Mourning in Absence of Bodies: ‘the Disappeared Exist, but They Are Not Here’ 9.5 Mourning in Absence of Acknowledgment: The Disappeared Are Here, but They Do Not Exist 9.6 The Role of the Dead in Achieving Social Justice in the Present 9.7 Conclusion: Opportunities and Pitfalls of Searching for the Disappeared References 10 Restoring the Human Dignity of Absent Bodies in Colombia 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Human Dignity in Transitional Justice 10.3 The Human Dignity of Absent Bodies 10.4 The Restoration of Victims’ Dignity in Colombia 10.5 The Process of Dignification of Victims with Absent Bodies 10.6 Conclusion References 11 The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization 11.1 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence I: The Screen Memorial 11.2 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence II: The Ambiguous Memorial 11.3 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence III: The Wandering Memorial 11.4 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence IV: The Non-memorial 11.5 Figure of Memorial Ambivalence V: The Invisible Memorial 11.6 Conclusion References 12 Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era References Index