Antonyms of our remembering

Harris, Verne

doi:10.1007/s10502-014-9221-5

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“…Perhaps, as Harris suggests, 'what Guzmán creates with this record of pain -this archive of feeling, this nostalgia for illumination and lightness -is a space offering multiple creative energies'. 38 Perhaps this is enough. Like Caroline Steedman, he draws attention to the immortality of dust: there is nowhere it can disappear to.…”

Section: Disrupting From Withinmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Edkins¹

2019

Change and the Politics of Certainty

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Section: Disrupting From Withinmentioning

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“…25 As Verne Harris puts it, 'Guzmán posits an absence of presence and an interminable play of multiple pasts.' 26 However, memory on its own is not enough. The ghosts of the Atacama seem to demand justice.…”

Section: Disrupting From Withinmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Edkins¹

2019

Change and the Politics of Certainty

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“…4 Yet, as the following extract illustrates, it has also implicitly been linked with restoring the dignity of the dead, ‘it really is the dignity of their loved is what they’re fighting for, what they represented in life, that’s what it’s about’. 5 Such statement’s correspond to Harris’s (2014: 218) argument that the ghosts of the past ‘demand that we work to make our lives meaningful by working to make their lives meaningful’. Speaking to ghosts as not merely ‘boundary objects’ between the past and the present or between memory and commemoration for example, for some victims and survivors, the haunting presence of the unresolved past acts as a blockage between existing and the ability to live in the here and the future.I earnestly believe that once this inquest is over that I have accomplished my goal, I have achieved what I have set out to.…it’s time to be free; 6 You’re dealing with people who would be quite old and infirm.…”

Section: Haunting and Lost Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Haunting and transitional justice: On lives, landscapes and unresolved pasts

Lawther

2020

International Review of Victimology

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This article explores practices of haunting and ghosting after conflict-related loss. This is not to suggest a focus on the occult or the paranormal, but to use these phenomena as a prism through which to understand the intersection between unresolved pasts and the transmission of trauma post-conflict. As Michael Levan notes, trauma lingers ‘unexorcisably in the places of its perpetration, in the bodies of those affected, in the eyes of the witnesses, and in the politics of memory’. The ghost, according to Avery Gordon ‘is the principal form by which something lost or invisible or seemingly not there makes itself known or apparent to us’. In this article I argue for three conceptualisations of haunting when past traumas remain unaddressed: the haunting of lost lives, the haunting of landscape, and the haunting presence of the unresolved past. The article focuses on Northern Ireland, a post-conflict jurisdiction described as being haunted by a ‘conflict calendar in which every day is an anniversary’ and extensive fieldwork with victims and survivors of the conflict. The article concludes by arguing that the presence of ghosts and the experience of haunting represent a ‘call to action’ in the quest to deal with a legacy of violent conflict and human rights abuses.

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“…(2009, p. 3). In this special journal issue, Verne Harris (2014) expresses an epistemological longing to break out of the tropes and methods of the transitional justice framework and to do something different--not only to understand how archivists might act more effectively in the immediate aftermath of conflict, but also to acknowledge affect and how complicated stories actually can be. At the same time, he is eloquently expressing another source of affect-that of archivists such as himself and Adami who are feeling, among other things, frustration, weariness, "stuckness," and disillusionment.…”

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Moving past: probing the agency and affect of recordkeeping in individual and community lives in post-conflict Croatia

Gilliland

2014

Arch Sci

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Abstract:Reporting on ongoing research, this paper reviews stories, drawn from recent literature as well as gathered through ethnographic research, that people tell about records and recordkeeping during and since the Yugoslav Wars. It focuses on what these stories reveal of the agency and affect of recordkeeping in individual and community lives, particularly in Croatia. The paper concludes with a contemplation of what might be learned from such an approach for the development of recordkeeping infrastructures that can anticipate, avert or alleviate some of the ways in which records and recordkeeping continue to traumatize or target the vulnerable, and frustrate and prevent the human and societal need to "move forward," if not "move past."Response to Reviewers:

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Antonyms of our remembering

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

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Haunting and transitional justice: On lives, landscapes and unresolved pasts

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