Post-Conflict Memorialization

Luisa Gandolfo is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Olivette Otele is Professor of Colonial History and Memory of Slavery at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, and a Fellow and Vice President of the Royal Historical Society. Yoav Galai is Lecturer in Global Political Communication at the Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London

Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation.- Articulating Presence of Absence: Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo.- Mourning in Reluctant Sites of Memory: From Afrophobia to Cultural Productivity.- Dust on Dust: Performing Selk'nam Visions, Tracing Absent Bodies.- Reading Absence, Gender, and the Land(scape) in Palestinian Art.- Monumenting Our Pasts: Monuments, what are they now?.- The Resolution of Doubts: Towards Recognition of the Systematic Abduction of Yemenite Children in Israel.- The Commemorative Continuum of Partition Violence.- Absent Bodies, Present Pasts: Forced Disappearance as Historical Injustice in the Peruvian Highlands.- Restoring the Human Dignity of Absent Bodies in Colombia.- The Wandering Memorial: Figures of Ambivalence in Hungarian Holocaust Memorialization.- Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence During Covid-19.