Grassroots memorials [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of memorializing traumatic death / / edited by Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789749803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• ISBN: 0-85745-190-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Collana: Remapping cultural history ; ; 12
• Altri autori (Persone): MargryP. J (Peter Jan); Sánchez CarreteroCristina
• Disciplina: 393/.9
• Soggetti: Death - Social aspects; Memorialization; Social movements - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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