Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory
Sulamith Graefenstein,
Rosanne Kennedy
Abstract:This article introduces the concept of mnemonic reciprocity to examine the dynamics of exchanges between local memory activists and other community members after a Comfort Women statue was installed in 2016 on the grounds of Sydney’s Ashfield Uniting Church. Contributing to the scholarship on grassroots memory activism and on the global travels of the Comfort Women statue, we take a feminist, decolonial approach that identifies points of connectivity between the disparate communities that have come together in… Show more
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