About the Book
This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the relation between violence, memory and space. Focusing on enforced disappearances and genocide as violent practices aimed at destroying and erasing the traces of the 'enemy', the contributions gathered inquire about the manifold spatial strategies of domination and violence, but also about the powers of memory, resistance and transformation. The originality and core contribution of this book lies in the dialogue it establishes between memory studies, on the one hand, and critical studies of space on the other. The bridging of these academic fields opens up a fertile and, to a large extent, unexplored research area. The volume brings together young academics and prominent international scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields, including Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Literature, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Theatre Studies. The authors engage with the spatial deployment of past and present violence in Argentina, Cambodia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the United States. The chapters include original contributions by renowned authors Aleida Assmann and Jay Winter, transcripts of an interview with the eminent geographer David Harvey and fragments of the play The Cartographer. Warsaw, 1:400,000, by the acclaimed Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, in its first English translation.
About the Author: Meltem Ah?ska, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Pilar Calveiro Garrido, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico Pamela Colombo, EHESS-IRIS, France Zuzanna Dziuban University of Konstanz, Germany Francisco Ferrándiz, Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, Spain Gabriel Gatti, University of the Basque Country, Spain David Harvey, City University of New York (CUNY), USA Kirsten Mahlke, University of Konstanz, Germany Silvana Mandolessi, University of Konstanz, Germany Juan Mayorga, Playwright and Philosopher, Spain Mariana Eva Perez, University of Konstanz, Germany Gudrun Rath, University of Konstanz, Germany Estela Schindel, University of Konstanz, Germany Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens, Greece James Tyner, Kent University, USA Jay M. Winter, Yale University, USA
