PALACIOS GONZÁLEZ, Daniel (2024). Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain
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Daniel Palacios González | Book |
SAQQA CARAZO, Miriam (2024). Las exhumaciones por Dios y por España
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Miriam Saqqa Carazo | Book |
HERNÁNDEZ CASTILLO, Aída y ROBLEDO SILVESTRE, Carolina (2020). Nadie Detiene el Amor. Historias de Vida de Familiares de Personas Desaparecidas en el Norte de Sinaloa
Nadie Detiene el Amor.
Historias de Vida de Familiares de Personas Desaparecidas en el Norte de Sinaloa
In this book, Aída Hernández and Carolina Robledo, researchers at CIESAS, give context to the extreme, everyday violence in northern Sinaloa and share the experiences and struggles of relatives of disappeared people. The life stories they tell us are a way of remembering the absence. A way for their hearts to keep beating through the words of those who will not abandon the loving and challenging task of searching for them.
PALACIOS GONZÁLEZ, Daniel (2022). De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia
De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria
La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia
Within this book, I focused on the meaningful gestures of producing images using the bodies buried in the mass graves of the Spanish War and Dictatorship from 1936 until nowadays. The objective I proposed for this research was to define the historical development of monument practices and the forms they had taken, understand them in the society they seek to influence, and try to attribute a sense to them as meaningful gestures. I draw up my cartography of monuments in the country, with 600 records. But, far from seeking unity based on generalisations, I tried to find the logic underlying each of the experiences. To do so, I decided to take a broad sample and leave the quantitative study to approach the practices qualitatively. Accordingly, I selected a large selection of 100, which consisted of visiting the sites and interviewing those involved in these practices.
Additionally, in many of those sites visited, I also developed observation and participant observation in different rituals and events. I organised the book into three parts, each covering a stage of the analysis. In the first part, I answered the question of how the production of monuments evolved and what forms they took. In the second part, I answer the question of how monument practices were incorporated into the society they sought to influence. In the third part, I point out how we are not dealing with simple reactions that respond to the formal logic of tradition, but, on the contrary, they look for a specific and reasonable end goal, a result based on planning and consciousness.
In conclusion, I proved how the monument becomes an expression of the historical consciousness of its producers. How different actors communicated their memories in a meaningful gesture limited by the material reality integrating the bodies in constructing a new image. And how they seek to influence society, not just bury the dead according to a funerary tradition.
ETXEBERRIA, Francisco (coord.) (2020). The exhumations of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship 2000-2019. Current status and recommendations for the future
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Francisco Etxeberria (coord.) | Book |
Argentina Betrayed. Memory, Mourning, and Accountability
The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country’s people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state’s trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their lives to find the disappeared, and one group of mothers defied the repressive regime with weekly protests at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. How do societies cope with human losses and sociocultural traumas in the aftermath of such instances of political violence and state terror?
In Argentina Betrayed, Antonius C. G. M. Robben demonstrates that the dynamics of trust and betrayal that convulsed Argentina during the dictatorship did not end when democracy returned but rather persisted in confrontations over issues such as the truth about the disappearances, the commemoration of the past, and the guilt and accountability of perpetrators. Successive governments failed to resolve these debates because of erratic policies made under pressure from both military and human rights groups. Mutual mistrust between the state, retired officers, former insurgents, and bereaved relatives has been fueled by recurrent revelations and controversies that prevent Argentine society from conclusively coming to terms with its traumatic past.
With thirty years of scholarly engagement with Argentina—and drawing on his extensive, fair-minded interviews with principals at all points along the political spectrum—Robben explores how these ongoing dynamics have influenced the complicated mourning over violent deaths and disappearances. His analysis deploys key concepts from the contemporary literature of human rights, transitional justice, peace and reconciliation, and memory studies, including notions of trauma, denial, accountability, and mourning. The resulting volume is an indispensable contribution to a better understanding of the terrible crimes committed by the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s and their aftermath.
Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben
What Remains. Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War
For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war.
Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.
Author: Sarah E. Wagner
Anstett, Élisabeth and Jean-Marc Dreyfus (2018) Human remains and violence. An interdisciplinary journal
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Human Remains and Violence. An interdisciplinary journal. Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2018 | Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus | Journal |
Human Remains and Violence: An interdisciplinary journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed publication which draws together the different strands of academic research on the dead body and the production of human remains en masse, whether in the context of mass violence, genocidal occurrences or environmental disasters. Inherently interdisciplinary, the journal publishes papers from a range of academic disciplines within the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Human Remains and Violence invites contributions from scholars working in a variety of fields and interdisciplinary research is especially welcome.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial
pp. 1-2(2)
Authors: Fournet, Caroline; Anstett, Élisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc
Articles:
Exposure: the ethics of making, sharing and displaying photographs of human remains
pp. 3-24(22)
Authors: Harries, John; Fibiger, Linda; Smith, Joan; Adler, Tal; Szöke, Anna
Pervasive death: Teresa Margolles and the space of the corpse
pp. 25-40(16)
Author: Bacal, Edward
Displaying dead bodies: bones and human biomatter post-genocide
pp. 41-55(15)
Author: Auchter, Jessica
Bone memory: the necrogeography of the Armenian Genocide in Dayr al-Zur, Syria
pp. 56-75(20)Author: Semerdjian, Elyse
Violence against and using the dead: Ethiopia’s Dergue cases
pp. 76-92(17)
Author: Metekia, Tadesse Simie
Book Reviews
pp. 93-104(12)
Garibian, Sévane, Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus (2017) Restos humanos e identificación. Violencia de masa, genocidio y el “giro forense”
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Restos humanos e identificación. Violencia de masa, genocidio y el “giro forense” | Sévane Garibian, Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus | Book |
EDITORS: Sévane Garibian, Élisabeth Ansett y Jean-Marc Dreyfus.
WRITERS: Karel Berkhoff, Viacheslav Bitiutckii, Gabriel N. Finder, Gillian Fowler, Admir Jugo, Rémi Korman, José López Mazz, Tony Platt, Nicky Rousseau, Frances Tay, Tim Thompson y Sari Wastell.
Read first pages (in Spanish) (pdf)
Labrador Méndez, German (2017) Culpables por la literatura. Imaginación política y contracultura en la Transición Española (1968-1986)
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Culpables por la literatura. Imaginación política y contracultura en la Transición Española (1968-1986) | German Labrador Méndez | Book |