Excavating memory : sites of remembering and forgetting /
edited by Maria Theresia Starzmann and John R. Roby ; foreword by Paul Shackel.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
- Cultural Heritage Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. Sites of contestation: memory work in the nation-state: Bureaucratizing the glorious past: Moscow's victory memorial project during late socialism / Sites of memory of the 1980 military coup in Turkey / Remembering right, remembering white: public art, colonial memory, and gentrification in Toronto's Parkdale neighborhood / Power line: memory and the march on Blair Mountain / Part II. Unremembered heritage: memories and silences: Marginalized narratives: memory work at African shrines in Kochi, India / Land of amnesia: power, predation, and heritage in central Africa / Imprisonment is a permanent scar: women's penitentiaries in Francoist Spain / Pioneer mothers for the new millennium / Part III. Storied landscapes: memory as embodied practice: Material memories: (re)collecting clandestine crossings of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Hate sits in places: folk knowledge and the power of place in Rosewood, Florida / Persistent practice and racial politics: maple sugaring on the Dennis farm / The memory market: black women's stories and the legacy of the South African TRC / Part IV. Violence and conflict: excavating painful memories: Representations of forced labor in the Irish Magdalen laundries: contemporary visual art as site of memory / Memory, identity, and a painful past: contesting the former Dachau concentration camp / Excavating a hidden past: the forensic turn in Spain's collective memory / The Armenian genocide: forensic intervention, narrative, and the historical record / The future of the painful past: archival labor and materiality in the South Asian American Digital Archive / Jonathan Brunstedt -- Derya Frat -- Griffin Epstein -- Richelle C. Brown -- Neelima Jeychandran -- Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Cinta Ramblado-Minero -- Cynthia Culver Prescott -- Sam Grabowska and John Doering-White -- Edward González-Tennant -- John R. Roby -- Nontsasa Nako -- Audrey Rousseau -- Aline Sierp -- Lore Colaert -- Roxana Ferllini -- Michelle Caswell.
The chapters in this volume represent an intriguing, interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory, touching on issues of heritage, storytelling, and reconciliation. The central concern of this volume is not only how we remember the past in the present, but who remembers the past, opening up an engagement with descendant communities and public scholarship.