Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care

Till, Karen E.

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.10.008

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“…has to be seized by political movement' and cite demonstrations, conflicts and struggles on the streets as a means of achieving this right. This, according to Till (2012: 3) 'is not enough. We also need love and play .'.…”

Section: Everyday Performative Justicementioning

confidence: 95%

Searching foractually existingjustice in the city

Williams

2016

Urban Studies

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Locating justice in the city can be a difficult task. Urban theory has focused on exposing injustice and critiquing the multiple occurrences of injustice in cities. But what role could uncovering practices of actually existing justice in the city play in critical theory? How would we begin to look for actually existing justice in the here and now? By adopting a performative ontology and a politics of possibility, I argue that it is possible to expose, propose and amplify (Iveson, 2010) actually existing justice practices in the everyday city. A shift in thinking and research approach may be needed to make theoretical and ontological space for justice. In this paper I discuss research approaches that assist in locating justice in the city. Theorisations of a politics of possibility, performative ontological politics, weak theory and reading for difference are a suite of research practices that make space for the presence of justice. I argue that cities can be sites of actually existing justice practiced as a response to situated injustices or as a way of doing/being/thinking the city differently and demonstrate this with the example of Alfalfa House Organic Food Cooperative, Sydney, Australia. Documenting how justice is expressed in our cities is essential for work that seeks to grow and nurture justice projects.

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Section: Everyday Performative Justicementioning

confidence: 95%

Searching foractually existingjustice in the city

Williams

2016

Urban Studies

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“…Calgaro (2015) argues that vicarious trauma represents an emotionally entangled set of processes deeply connected to the power asymmetries of qualitative research as well. The causal framework taken from the clinical study of trauma in the 1980s and 1990s is rightly criticized for assuming that trauma refers to singular events with causes, recoveries with treatment, and this framework takes on especially problematic connotations as applied to vicarious trauma because of the incommensurability of the perceived 'events' in question (Till, 2012).…”

Section: Trauma As Contagionmentioning

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Contagious trauma: Reframing the spatial mobility of trauma within advocacy work

Coddington

2017

Emotion, Space and Society

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“…But, they can also be limited and even harmful where places cannot be narrated, planned and designed in abstract or reductive ways. This is especially the case where conflict is territorialised and space becomes both a material and non-material resource to be claimed, fought over, won and lost (Till 2012 However, producer behaviours are only part of the explanation and the emergence of 'dark tourism' can also be understood as a fascination with death in an increasingly stratified industry. Foley and Lennon (1996, 198) (Lefebvre 1991, 416-17).…”

Section: Tourism Memory and Heritagementioning

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Contested heritages and cultural tourism

Murtagh

Boland

Shirlow

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Abstract:The fascination with death and disaster has encouraged the development of distinctive tourism markets, the rediscovery of sites and places of past conflict and all accompanied with uneasy narratives about what they mean and how they should be consumed. The increasingly stratified tourist economy and the interplay between demand and supply has also stimulated a complex set of ontological, socio-political and indifferent responses as places and interests compete to project often selective or stylised claims for recognition. This paper reviews the experiences of tourists visiting Derry/Londonderry, the UK's first City of Culture and how they make sense of the competing interpretations of the past in museums, rituals and artefacts. The 17thC walled city, the city of violence and the post-conflict renaissance city are spatially and socially reproduced but rarely connect with each other to help make sense of the past for the present and critically, for the future. The paper concludes that the discursive content promised by the City of Culture was a missed opportunity to debate these places and events and critically, the problematized and reified narratives they each project.

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Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care

Cited by 251 publications

References 33 publications

Searching foractually existingjustice in the city

Searching foractually existingjustice in the city

Contagious trauma: Reframing the spatial mobility of trauma within advocacy work

Contested heritages and cultural tourism

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