Nie-miejsca pamięci i ich nie-ludzkie pomniki

Sendyka, Roma

doi:10.18318/td.2017.2.5

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“…Incomplete data, deliberately presented in a defective form, are actively recombined and completed by recipients (Sendyka et al . 2020a, 2020b; Sendyka 2021). Examples of such complex, small-scale but impactful practices can be easily found in reports or accounts by those who research the dispersed, uncommemorated killing sites.…”

Section: Cynegetic Landscapesmentioning

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Uncommemorated Sites of Past Violence as Landscapes of Manhunts

Sendyka

2022

European Review

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The article discusses uncommemorated sites of violence in the framework of landscape theories. In particular, it asks how the sites of past violence can be understood through the lens of the ‘dynamic’ theory of landscape offered by Tim Ingold in his seminal The Temporality of the Landscape (1993). The ‘dwelling perspective’ he proposes to understand sites as dynamic ‘taskscapes’ allows us to inscribe past violent actions and engagements of local users into today’s meanings of sites of trauma. This conceptualization is further operationalized in relation to George Chamayoux’ philosophical history of manhunts (or more broadly: cynegetic practices, 2012). In the article it has been asked: how can a landscape be ‘pregnant with the past’ – as it is claimed in Ingold’s approach – if the past actions involved tracking, hunting and killing people who tried to escape death in ghettos or camps? How can we ‘read the past’, ‘remember it’ or ‘call back an internal image’ of previous actions developed in the area, if the activity co-constituted an act of genocide? Are we able to read today the past threat of a perpetrator–predator searching for victims, and, if so, with what tools? Can environmental studies help us to understand the uncanny relation to landscapes that connote past manhunts, and violent deaths on killing sites? The author will propose the concept of cynegetic landscapes to approach landscapes of manhunts.

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Section: Cynegetic Landscapesmentioning

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Uncommemorated Sites of Past Violence as Landscapes of Manhunts

Sendyka

2022

European Review

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“…A team of researchers at Jagiellonian University (2016–2020) working on unremembered post-genocide sites noticed a tendency on one hand toward aphatic structures (e.g. diverse strategies of Aesopic encryption, that is, figures of antonomasia, aposiopesis, metaphors, periphrases, modulated prosody, the mitigation of content by means of body language, the avoidance of certain words, the usage of euphemisms), while on the other hand, toward loquacity or logorrhea accompanied by neological activity (in particular when it was necessary to bypass a problematic term), dynamizing stories in adventure (picaresque) formats when speaking of an interpolated past, along with mythologizing or creating “screen narrations,” in order to prevent unwanted content from revealing itself in communication (Sendyka, 2021; Sendyka et al, 2020).…”

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“…The most commonly formulated designations are unequivocal: these are locales that are “less known” and “largely invisible,” “long forgotten and neglected” (as they are characterized, for example, in a document on killing sites by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; Silberklang, 2015: 23). It seems to me, however, that the question is more complex than the suggested general feature of “being forgotten” (Sendyka, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021). The trope that would lead toward one of the possible understandings was suggested en passant by Ulrich Baer in Spectral Evidence , as he was commenting on photographs of such sites.…”

Section: Unremembered Forgottenmentioning

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Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic

Sendyka

2022

Memory Studies

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Central and Eastern Europe—scenes of brutal genocides in the past century—are dotted with sites of trauma. Only some of those potential sites of memory are currently marked with plaques or memorials. Mnemonic responses to such sites do occur but are not part of an easily readable symbolic system within official culture. They are often contradictory: at once supporting and blocking memory about a given event. The concept of “non-memory” developed by Polish sociologists might be helpful in grasping vernacular memorial activities that do not privilege verbal contact as the norm in the transfer of memory. Non-memory tends to combine dismantled symbolic means and extra-symbolic embodied tools and performative acts. Non-memory therefore takes part in the transmission of an experience of the past in particular when the past turns out to be difficult or impossible to inscribe within available cognitive frameworks.

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“…Podejmowane wspólnie inicjatywy przełożyły się jednak nie tylko na powstanie formalnych i nieformalnych zbiorowości dotkniętych problemem zaginięć bliskich, ale też specyficzne współdzielenie pamięci o tych ostatnich, dzięki któremu trwali zarówno zaginieni, jak i pamiętające o nich społeczności (zob. Jelin, 2012;Rojas-Perez, 2017, Sendyka, 2017. W ten oto sposób rodziły się i umacniały lokalne wspólnoty pamięci.…”

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Powroty po(do) bliskich. O paradoksach migracji powrotnych i ich związkach z poszukiwaniami desaparecidos w Andach peruwiańskich końca XX i początku XXI wieku

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2020

Ameryka Łacińska

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The article concerns wartime history of Peru, at the background of which I examine the first bottom-up practices of investigating and accounting for the internal conflict of 1980-2000. In detail, the work deals primarily with the beginnings of the phenomena referred to in the title: return migrations and their relationship with searching for victims of forced disappearances, being also an attempt to contextualize both problems against the background of the reveals of memory about the era of political violence in Peru, competing with each other at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Nie-miejsca pamięci i ich nie-ludzkie pomniki

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Uncommemorated Sites of Past Violence as Landscapes of Manhunts

Uncommemorated Sites of Past Violence as Landscapes of Manhunts

Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic

Powroty po(do) bliskich. O paradoksach migracji powrotnych i ich związkach z poszukiwaniami desaparecidos w Andach peruwiańskich końca XX i początku XXI wieku

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