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Berghahn Books Grassroots Memorials The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death 2011 Edition by Peter Jan Margry, Cristina Sanchez-carretero
Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh's memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots MemorialsPeter Jan Margry and Cristina Sanchez-CarreteroPART I: NEGOTIATING SOCIETAL VIOLENCEChapter 1. "Difficult Remembrance": Memorializing Mafi a Victims in PalermoDeborah Puccio-DenChapter 2. Ritual Mediations of Violent Death: An Ethnography of the Theo van Gogh Memorial Site, AmsterdamIrene StengsChapter 3. Between Commemoration and Social Activism: Spontaneous Shrines, Grassroots Memorialization, and the Public Ritualesque in DerryJack SantinoChapter 4. Memorializing Shooters with Their Victims: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois UniversitySylvia GriderPART II: CONTESTING OBJECTIONABLE DEATH Chapter 5. Marking Death: Grief, Protest, and Politics after a Fatal Traffic AccidentMonika RulfsChapter 6. Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City StreetsRobert Thomas DoblerChapter 7. Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish CitiesEwa KlekotChapter 8. Remembering La Tragedia: Commemorations of the 1999 Floods in Venezuela 208Sandrine RevetPART III: SOCIABILITY AND REFLEXIVE ANTITERRORISMChapter 9. Street Shrines and the Writing of Disaster: 9/11, New York, 2001Beatrice FraenkelChapter 10. The Madrid Train Bombings: Enacting the Emotional Body at the March 11 Grassroots MemorialsCristina Sanchez-CarreteroChapter 11. Purification and Remembrance: Eastern and Western Ways of Dealing with the Bali BombingHuub de JongePART IV: INSTRUMENTALIZING REPOSITORIES OF MEMORYChapter 12. September 11: Museums, Spontaneous Memorials, and HistoryJames B. GardnerChapter 13. Piazza Carlo Giuliani - G8 Summit, Genoa 2001: Death, Testimony, MemoryFabio Caffarena and Carlo StiacciniChapter 14. Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The "Heritagization" of a Materialized Vox PopuliPeter Jan MargryNotes on ContributorsIndex