Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era

Otele, Olivette; Gandolfo, Luisa; Galai, Yoav

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“…Because monuments and memorials shape space in the present (in the senses of the immediate public space these memorials inhabit as well as the broader space of the nation) as exclusionary and segregating (Miron, 2017), these objects can have the effect of depoliticizing cultural memory through the spatial fixing of historical narratives. Indeed, in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has been unfolding while this introduction has been written, there are emerging debates about memorialization of and during the pandemic (Otele et al, 2021; for a historical consideration of memorialization of pandemics, see Honigsbaum, 2018). Geographically diverse critiques and questions are emerging from these debates, such as how any official memorialization (or, indeed, absence of such) might reinforce racial and class dynamics in the U.S. context (Kim, 2020; Park, 2020; Savage, 2020) or how the failure to memorialize in the Indian context is intrinsically connected to hierarchies of grievability and the avoidance of accountability (Kurian, 2021).…”

Section: Sites Of Conscience: Putting Memory Into Actionmentioning

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Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience

Lloyd

Steele

2022

Space and Culture

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In disrupting the singularity of official histories and memorials, some scholars, activists, and members of marginalized populations have approached memory as a concept that accommodates a multiplicity of subjugated experiences, knowledges, and narratives of place and event, and thus gives rise to a set of memory practices that serve as useful tools for anti-oppression and social justice activism. For these reasons, this memory work has a clear spatial dimension and focuses on place. One such movement in this vein, referred to as “Sites of Conscience,” forms the focus of this special issue. This editorial introduction to this special issue of Space and Culture takes Sites of Conscience as a prism through which to consider relations between history, memory, politics, temporality, ethics, and justice within a spatial framework. Given the increasing pressures to simplify and “purify” national narratives and to pathologize multiple forms of difference, we urgently need activist scholarship on the salient relations between place, history, memory, memorialization, and social justice.

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Section: Sites Of Conscience: Putting Memory Into Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%