Even So, Remember Me

Abstract

“A survey of memorialization (a collective, rather than individualized remembrance) and its contestation provides the most accessible means with which to determine the effects of justice, or ostensible justice, on present day South Asia. Indeed, the ritualistic means by which humans collectively preserve memory, and the eons for which they have done so provide a solid basis for supposing that such practices can be beneficial: facilitating reconciliation, cooperation, and the non-violent restoration and preservation of identity. Nevertheless, it is also imperative to question, in the critical vein, who is in control of the narratives that are being memorialized at any given time, and what interests might determine proclivities toward commemorating persons or events in a particular fashion…”