Introduction Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots Memorials

Margry, P.J.; Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina

doi:10.1515/9780857451903-003

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“…Spontaneous memorials are generally temporary in nature and are usually eventually dismantled due to weather conditions, deterioration of objects, decay, security issues, or pressure by landowners and residents to reclaim tribute spaces (see examples in Arvanitis, 2019;Margry & S anchez-Carretero, 2011;Milo sevi c, 2017b). Dismantling can lead to discussions about archiving and collecting what survives.…”

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“…Spontaneous memorials have value in the way they contribute to the democratization of the official record through their citizen testimony, helping define what happened through the eyes of the people (Døving, 2018). The collecting of spontaneous memorials represents an opportunity to acquire a “solidified emotion of trauma, a materialized vox populi of protest” (Margry & Sánchez‐Carretero, 2011, p. 16). Part of the richness of this material lies in how the messaging “mediates, permits, and encourages the social release of grief”, and consequently serves as a tangible manifestation of that public grief (Doss, 2010, p. 71).…”

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“…4 4 For example, Arvanitis (2019), Doss (2002, 2006, 2010), Eyre (2006), Grider (2001, 2006), Gardner and Henry (2002), Gardner (2011), Haney et al. (1997), Haskins and DeRose (2003), Jorgensen‐Earp and Lanzilotti (1998), Margry and Sánchez‐Carretero (2007, 2011), Milošević (2017a, 2017b), Purcell (2012), Sánchez‐Carretero (2006, 2007, 2011), Santino (2006, 2011), Senie (2006) and Ware (2017). …”

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First Wave Collecting – Christchurch Terror Attacks, 15 March 2019

Gibson

Wellington²

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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This paper explores how the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Alexander Turnbull Library (a division of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) responded to the outpouring of grief in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks on 15 March 2019. This case study highlights how both institutions, at the invitation of the Wellington Islamic Centre (through the International Muslim Association of New Zealand) collected the hundreds of tributes left at Kilbirnie Mosque in Wellington. This particular acquisition required a shift from a museological object‐centred approach to an archival approach, enabling us to privilege the integrity of the whole. The authors consider the meanings and impacts of such spontaneous memorials; and discuss both the benefits and limitations of collecting material culture generated by ‘first wave’ responses to mass trauma. This case study also demonstrates what can be achieved through collaboration, drawing on aspects of professional practice and theory from across the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector.

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First Wave Collecting – Christchurch Terror Attacks, 15 March 2019

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Wellington²

2023

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“…After the completion of the mural of the martyrs of Port Said in Mohammad Mahmoud Street, flowers were brought and left leaning against the wall right under the portraits of the martyrs. The bringing of flowers to the murals recalls public rituals of creating unofficial memorials at public sites of violent and unexpected deaths (see Santino 2006, Margry & Sánchez-Carretero 2011, Doss 2010, Maddrell & Sidaway 2010). In the case under consideration, the flowers…”

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Transforming Personal Death into Public Martyrdom

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Giubergia

2023

Cult. Unbound

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Abstract This article examines ways to analyze and understand the social and cultural transformation that occurred after the 2011 uprising in downtown Cairo. We argue for a cultural sociological perspective using a renewed version of the concept “the sacred” for analysis. Visual material – graffiti and murals on the walls of Cairo – is discussed in relation to the process of transforming the death of an individual into collective martyrdom. The role of social media, public rituals, and celebrations in the events in Tahrir Square is also discussed. This article shows how the process of sacralization follows a recurring pattern in which individual deaths transmigrate into new collective, ritualized memories through the use of aesthetics in social media and on murals. Using different types of field-based and online material, this article argues for a cultural sociological perspective whereby individual death also can be understood on a more general level as a constituent part of the existing and contested societal order. The emphasis on a processual view of social and cultural transformation is equally important. This view includes a dialectical perspective, which together with an awareness of spatiality, materiality, new media, and embodiment, is essential for an understanding of what happened in downtown Cairo after the uprising in 2011.

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“…Gravestones sometimes refer to specific disasters, such as those in Peshtigo, Wisconsin that are inscribed with the words "All Lost in the Calamity" or "All Perished in the Peshtigo Fire." While scholars from several disciplines have begun to document and study the spontaneous shrines to vehicular accident victims that are increasingly seen along the nation's roadways (Everett 2000;Ferrella 2018;Reid 2015; among others) plus other grassroots shrines and memorials to disaster victims (Margry and Sánchez-Carretero 2011;Revet 2011), more formally erected historical markers and monuments are the focus of this exploratory study.…”

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Emergency Managers’ Attitudes about Communication of Hazard Vulnerability by Monuments and Historical Markers

Cross

2020

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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The utility of communicating hazard vulnerability to the public through monuments and historical markers commemorating and describing past disasters is explored in this paper. A survey of county emergency management directors in Wisconsin focused upon their awareness of such monuments and their attitudes regarding the effectiveness of disaster markers and commemoration in communicating hazard risk to the public, both residents and visitors. Emergency managers held disparate views regarding the effectiveness of the markers among the public, although managers in counties with markers tended to hold a higher opinion of their effectiveness in communicating hazard risk and to be more willing to commemorate future disasters.

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Introduction Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots Memorials

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First Wave Collecting – Christchurch Terror Attacks, 15 March 2019

First Wave Collecting – Christchurch Terror Attacks, 15 March 2019

Transforming Personal Death into Public Martyrdom

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