Grassroots Memorials : : The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death / / ed. by Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Peter Jan Margry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Caffarena, Fabio,; Dobler, Robert Thomas,; Fraenkel, Béatrice,; Gardner, James B.,; Grider, Sylvia,; Jonge, Huub de,; Klekot, Ewa,; Margry, Peter Jan,; Puccio-Den, Deborah,; Revet, Sandrine,; Rulfs, Monika,; Santino, Jack,; Stengs, Irene,; Stiaccini, Carlo,; Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina,
• HerausgeberIn: Margry, Peter Jan,; Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping Cultural History ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots Memorials -- Part I Negotiating Societal Violence -- Chapter 1 “Difficult Remembrance” Memorializing Mafia Victims in Palermo -- Chapter 2 Ritual Mediations of Violent Death: An Ethnography of the Theo van Gogh Memorial Site, Amsterdam -- Chapter 3 Between Commemoration and Social Activism: Spontaneous Shrines, Grassroots Memorialization, and the Public Ritualesque in Derry -- Chapter 4 Memorializing Shooters with Their Victims: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University -- Part II Contesting Objectionable Death -- Chapter 5 Marking Death: Grief, Protest, and Politics after a Fatal Traffic Accident -- Chapter 6 Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City Streets -- Chapter 7 Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish Cities -- Chapter 8 Remembering La Tragedia: Commemorations of the 1999 Floods in Venezuela -- Part III Sociability and Reflexive Antiterrorism -- Chapter 9 Street Shrines and the Writing of Disaster 9/11, New York, 2001 -- Chapter 10 The Madrid Train Bombings: Enacting the Emotional Body at the March 11 Grassroots Memorials -- Chapter 11 Purification and Remembrance: Eastern and Western Ways of Dealing with the Bali Bombings -- Part IV Instrumentalizing Repositories of Memory -- Chapter 12 September 11 Museums, Spontaneous Memorials, and History -- Chapter 13 Piazza Carlo Giuliani— G8 Summit, Genoa 2001 Death, Testimony, Memory -- Chapter 14 Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The “Heritagization” of a Materialized Vox Populi -- Notes on Contributors -- Index