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Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
| Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.6/60967 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KapteijnsLidwien
RichtersJ. M <1945-> (Johanna Maria) |
| Collana | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Violence - Social aspects - Africa
Political violence - Social aspects - Africa War and society - Africa Collective memory - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-95278-1
9786612952784 90-04-18541-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460342103321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
| Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.6/60967 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KapteijnsLidwien
RichtersJ. M <1945-> (Johanna Maria) |
| Collana | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Violence - Social aspects - Africa
Political violence - Social aspects - Africa War and society - Africa Collective memory - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-282-95278-1
9786612952784 90-04-18541-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785695103321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
| Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.6/60967 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KapteijnsLidwien
RichtersJ. M <1945-> (Johanna Maria) |
| Collana | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Violence - Social aspects - Africa
Political violence - Social aspects - Africa War and society - Africa Collective memory - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-282-95278-1
9786612952784 90-04-18541-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814105603321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remembering mass atrocities : perspectives on memory struggles and cultural representations in Africa / / Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu, editors
| Remembering mass atrocities : perspectives on memory struggles and cultural representations in Africa / / Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu, editors |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Collana | Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Atrocities - Africa - History
Genocide - Africa - History Collective memory - Africa |
| ISBN |
3-031-39892-0
9783031398926 3031398920 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South -- Introduction -- Mass Atrocities, Silenced Pasts and the Politics of Remembrance -- On Memory and Global South Perspectives: Theoretical Reflections -- Structure and Contributions -- References -- Part I: Memoryscapes: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2: Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa -- Introduction -- Current World System and the Silencing of Non-Western Views -- Decolonising Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Memory Making -- Ubuntu and Collective Memory in Africa -- Gendered Memories: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Theory -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Resisting Oblivion and Memory: The Destruction of Gukurahundi Memorial Plaques in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- An Overview of Genocide -- The Gukurahundi Genocide -- The Zimbabwean Law and Genocide -- ZANU-PF and Dis-membering of Memory -- Methodological and Theoretical Framing -- Legal Prohibition of Destruction of Memorials and Monuments -- The Memorial Plaques, Resistance and Re-membering Memory -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Genocide, Memory Work and the Falsehood of Human Rights in Postapartheid South Africa -- Introduction -- Nationalism, Memory, Genocide and Human Rights -- Sharpeville and Marikana -- Sharpeville Massacre -- Marikana Massacre -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Peace Education in Schools as a Strategy of Preventing Prevalence of Organized Mass Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Levels of Violence in Schools -- Violence Prevention Strategies -- Strategies of Incorporating Peace Education in Schools -- The Role of the Educator -- Engagement of Learners in Peaceful Living Activities -- Peace Education as a Form of Memorization.
Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Mediating Genocide -- Chapter 6: The Constructions of the Homoíne Massacre in Mozambican Mainstream Newspapers -- Introduction -- A Brief Note on the Massacre at Homoíne -- Mozambican Socio-Political and Media Contexts -- The Media and Military Conflicts -- Journalistic Discourse -- Brief Notes on the Theory of Representation -- Methodological Considerations -- Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of the Homoíne Massacre -- Main Semantic Pathways: Intradiscursive -- Key Persuasion Strategies for Selection of Characters (Sources) -- Lexical Selection -- Silence and the Relationship Between Explicit and Implied Silence -- Discursive Oppositions -- Aspects of Discursive Syntax: Use of Verbal Tenses -- Direct and Indirect Speech -- Final Considerations -- References -- Chapter 7: Child Survivors, Witnessing and Memories of Gukurahundi: An Analysis of The Children of the Genocide (2021) Documentary Film -- Introduction -- Gukurahundi and the Unhealed Wounds of the Past -- Documentary Films and Memory-Making -- Witnessing and Postmemory: Theoretical Reflections -- "We Were All Made to Sit and Watch as They Shot Him to Death": Child Survivors as Witnesses -- Child Survivors, Memory and the Pain of Loss -- Family Photographs as Objects of Memory -- On Graves, Commemorative Practices and the Legacies of Gukurahundi -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned': Remembering the First German Genocide in Namibia -- Introduction -- The Herero War -- Extermination Order -- Concentration Camps -- Colonial Science -- Enslaved Labour -- Cultural Genocide -- Remembering Through Cultural Representations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda's 'Double Genocide' Discourse in the Present Tense -- Introduction. The Double Genocide Dish on Rwanda's Ethnic Templates Table -- Smile Through the Tears and Dying to Live and the Trope of Genocide Negationism -- (Re)considering Memoricide in Rwanda -- References -- Chapter 10: Literary Texts as Sites of Alternative Memorialisation, Memory-Making and Archive-Making -- Introduction -- Theorising Archives and the (Un)archivable -- Literary Texts as Sites of Memorialisation and Memory-Making -- Representing the Unspeakable in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins -- Gukurahundi Remembered by a Child in Christopher Mlalazi's Running with Mother -- Born-Frees Remembering Gukurahundi in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Gender and Memory -- Chapter 11: Exploring the Representation of Violence Against Women in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)-A Gendered Perspective -- Introduction -- Discourses on Genocide and Genocidal Rape -- Representations of Genocidal Rape in Film: Feminist Perspectives -- Films: Hotel Rwanda and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo -- Methodology -- Representing the Un-representable -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: "Carving Their Place in History": Reconstructing Public Memories of Anti-Colonial Struggle Through Malawian Women's Writing -- Introduction -- Gender and Nationalisms -- Dictatorship and Reconstructing Public Memories -- Women Writing the Self -- Transgressing Racial and Gender Boundaries in Lomathinda: Rose Chibambo Speaks -- Reconfiguring Memories of Struggle in Vera Chirwa's Fearless Fighter -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Memories of Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Case of Nsukka Igbo -- Introduction -- Nigeria-Biafra War and the Politics of Memory -- Theoretical Framework -- Method -- Rape and Forced Marriage -- Occupation Babies -- Looting and Destruction of Properties. Summary Executions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Perspectives from Latin America -- Chapter 14: Between Collective Action and Public Policies: A Panoramic Perspective on Memory in Latin America -- References -- Chapter 15: A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death, Resonance and Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico -- Introduction -- Founding the Perfect Dictatorship -- 2006: A Watershed -- Resonance Box -- The Collective Force, the Women's View -- Mapping the Barbarian Territory -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799205503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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