Grassroots memorials : the politics of memorializing traumatic death / edited by Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sanchez-Carretero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)

Sánchez Carretero, Cristina

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Remapping cultural history ; v. 12.

Remapping cultural history ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Memorialization.

Social movements--Political aspects.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Summary:

In this, 12th volume of the series, Margry, an entomologist with a focus on contemporary religious cultures, rituals and mutual memory and Sanchez-Carretero, an anthropologist whose research focuses on the role of heritage formation processes in contemporary societies, describe and analyze "spontaneous" gatherings, improvised memorials, and street shrines. Using examples such as anti-mafia shrines, September 11 memorials, "ghost bikes," and spontaneous vigils which form in response to accidental deaths on dangerous roads, the authors show how grassroots memorials become focal points for channeling the power of individual grief into social grief and at times into public displays of anger and protest against injustice. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

"Difficult remembrance" : memorializing mafia victims in Palermo / Deborah Puccio-Den

Ritual mediations of violent death : an ethnography of the Theo van gogh memorial site, Amsterdam / Irene Stengs

Between commemoration and social activism : spontaneous shrines, grassroots memorialization, and the public ritualesque in Derry / Jack Santino

Memorializing shooters with their victims : Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University / Sylvia Grider

Contesting objectionable death

Marking death : grief, protest and politics after a fatal traffic accident / Monika Rulfs

Ghost bikes : memorialization and protest on city streets / Robert Thomas Dobler

Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish cities / Ewa Klekot

Remembering la tragedia : commemorations of the floods of 1999 in Venezuela / Sandrine Revet

Sociability and reflexive anti-terrorism

Street shrines and the writing of disaster : 9/11, New York 2001 / Beatrice Fraenkel

The Madrid train bombings : enacting the emotional body at the march 11 grassroots memorials / Cristina Sanchez-Carretero

Purification and remembrance : eastern and western ways to deal with the Bali bombing / Huub de Jonge

Instrumentalizing repositories of memory

Collecting and interpreting spontaneous shrines and memorials / James B. Gardner

Piazza Carlo Giuliani. Genova, G8/2001 : death, testimony, memory / Fabio Caffarena & Carlo Stiaccini

Memorializing a controversial politician : the "heritageization" of a materialized Vox Populi / Peter Jan Margry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0857451898

9780857451897

9780857451903

0857451901

OCLC:

703804997

Publisher Number:

99945243451