Details

Description

1 online resource (x, 374 pages) : illustrations

text txt rdacontent

computer c rdamedia

online resource cr rdacarrier

data file rda

Series

Remapping cultural history ; 12

Remapping cultural history ; 12.

JSTOR EBA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Difficult remembrance" : memorializing Mafia victims in Palermo / Deborah Puccio-Den -- Ritual mediations of violent death : an ethnography of the Theo van Gogh memorial site, Amsterdam / Irene Stengs -- Between commemoration and social activism : spontaneous shrines, grassroots memorialization, and the public ritualesque in Derry / Jack Santino -- Memorializing shooters with their victims : Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University / Sylvia Grider -- Marking death : grief, protest and politics after a fatal traffic accident / Monika Rulfs -- Ghost bikes : memorialization and protest on city streets / Robert Thomas Dobler -- Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish cities / Ewa Klekot -- Remembering La Tragedia : commemorations of the 1999 floods in Venezuela / Sandrine Revet -- Street shrines and the writing of disaster : 9/11, New York 2001 / Beatrice Fraenkel -- The Madrid train bombings : enacting the emotional body at the March 11 grassroots memorials / Cristina Sanchez-Carretero -- Purification and remembrance : eastern and western ways of dealing with the Bali bombing / Huub de Jonge -- September 11 : museums, spontaneous memorials, and history / James B. Gardner -- Piazza Carlo Giuliani : G8 Summit, Genova 2001 : death, testimony, memory / Fabio Caffarena & Carlo Stiaccini -- Memorializing a controversial politician : the "heritageization" of a materialized Vox Populi / Peter Jan Margry.

Summary

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.

Note

Print version record.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Death -- Social aspects.

Memorialization.

Social movements -- Political aspects.

Mort -- Aspect social.

Commémorations.

Mouvements sociaux -- Aspect politique.

commemorations (events)

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.

Death -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00888680

Memorialization. (OCoLC)fst01200580

Social movements -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01122666

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Electronic books.

Added Author

Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan), editor.

Sánchez Carretero, Cristina, editor.

Other Form:

Print version: Grassroots memorials. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 9780857451897 (DLC) 2011018711 (OCoLC)703804997

ISBN

9780857451903 (electronic book)

0857451901 (electronic book)

9780857451897 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

0857451898 (hardback ; alkaline paper)