New release: Space and the Memories of Violence. Edited by Estela Schindel and Pamela Colombo
4. December 2014
Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014
This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the relation between violence, memory and space. Focusing on enforced disappearances and genocide as violent practices aimed at destroying and erasing the traces of the 'enemy', the contributions gathered inquire about the manifold spatial strategies of domination and violence, but also about the powers of memory, resistance and transformation.
The originality and core contribution of this book lies in the dialogue it establishes between memory studies, on the one hand, and critical studies of space on the other. The bridging of these academic fields opens up a fertile and, to a large extent, unexplored research area. The volume brings together young academics and prominent international scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields, including Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Literature, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Theatre Studies. (publisher)
with contributions from:
Meltem Ahıska, Aleida Assmann, Pilar Calveiro Garrido, Pamela Colombo, Zuzanna Dziuban, Francisco Ferrándiz, Gabriel Gatti, David Harvey, Kirsten Mahlke, Silvana Mandolessi, Juan Mayorga, Mariana Eva Perez, Gudrun Rath, Estela Schindel, Stavros Stavrides, James Tyner, and Jay M. Winter.
Dr. Estela Schindel is scientific coordinator of the PhD programme “Europe in a globalized world“ at the University of Konstanz.
Dr. Pamela Colombo is currently a Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, and a researcher at the ERC programme “Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide.”