From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence

Jacobs, Janet

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“…This sentiment is expressed through domestic shrines in Japan and literally inscribed on Anglo-American memorials which declare themselves to be: 'sacred to the memory of …'. This discursive process of sacralisation of sites associated with the dead has been evidenced in cases of sudden, unexpected, violent or mass death, especially when bodies are not recovered (Foote, 2003;Jacobs, 2004), e.g. the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbour, Auschwitz concentration camp, the Killing Fields of Cambodia and Ground Zero in New York.…”

Section: Theorising Experiences Of Bereavement Grief and Mourningmentioning

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“…Grief can lay bare previously submerged conflicts, as can the politics of the deceased or their legacies, financial or personal. In turn, some memorials can also become a site of protest and resistance (see Howard, 2003;Jacobs, 2004;Johnson, 1995), e.g. 'ghost bikes', which are simultaneously a memorial for and protest against a cyclist fatality.…”

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Mapping grief. A conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance

Maddrell

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper highlights the significance of the spatial dimensions of the universal human phenomena of bereavement. Grief, mourning and remembrance are experienced in and mapped upon (i) physical spaces, including the public and private arenas of everyday life; (ii) the embodied-psychological spaces of the interdependent and co-producing body-mind and (iii) the virtual spaces of digital technology, religious-spiritual beliefs and non-place-based community. Culturally inflected, dynamic emotional-affective maps of grief can be identified, as a form of deep-mapping, which reflect the ways in which relationality to particular spaces and places is inflected by bereavement, mourning and remembrance. Individual's emotional-affective cartographies can intersect, overlap, or conflict with, others' maps, with social and political consequences. The conceptual framework outlined here is illustrated by a schematic representation of grief maps. This framework provides geographical scholars with a lens on the dynamic assemblage of self-body-place-society that constitutes culturally inflected individual and shared everyday grief maps, providing insight to relational spaces, emotional-affective geographies and therapeutic environments. The reflexive identification of such maps represents a potential resource for the bereaved and their therapeutic counsellors, facilitating the identification of places which evoke anguish or comfort etc. and which might be deemed emotionally 'safe' or 'unsafe' at particular junctures.Keywords: Death; bereavement; relational-space; emotional-affective; corporeal virtual Cartographier le chagrin. Cadre conceptuel pour comprendre les dimensions spatiales de la perte, du deuil et du souvenir Cet article souligne l'importance des dimensions spatiales du phénomène humain universel du deuil. On peut faire l'expérience de la perte, du deuil et du souvenir et les cartographier dans (i) les espaces physiques, comprenant les cercles publics et privés de la vie quotidienne; (ii) les espaces incarnés psychologiques du corps et de l'esprit interdépendants et coproducteurs et (iii) les espaces virtuels de la technologie numérique, les croyances religieuses-spirituelles et la communauté, en dehors de l'espace physique. On peut identifier des cartes du deuil à inflexion culturelle, qui ont une dynamique émotionnelle-affective, sous forme de cartographie en profondeur, qui reflètent les manières dont la relation à des espaces particuliers ou des endroits est influencée par la perte, le deuil et le souvenir. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. Social & Cultural Geography, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, 166-188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2015 fournit aux chercheurs en géographie un object...

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confidence: 99%

Section: Theorising Experiences Of Bereavement Grief and Mourningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping grief. A conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance

Maddrell

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Myers (2007:243) has also considered this theme, suggesting a 'historical archaeological' approach, which considers not only the landscapes of the Holocaust themselves but also the implications of such research, the relevance of these sites for modern society and how we should continue to address them within European heritage studies. Jacobs (2004) considered the 'profane to the sacred' at concentration camps, whilst Young (1994) and Marrus (2000) both addressed the significance of history and memory at memorial sites. Other important papers have emerged over the last few decades that have also addressed the various attitudes to sites of National Socialism, including a consideration of the former Gestapo, SA and SS headquarters in Berlin (Baker 1988), and the subsequent Holocaust memorial built at this site (Knischewski and Spittler in 2007).…”

Section: Holocaust Heritage Literaturementioning

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Holocaust Archaeology: Archaeological Approaches to Landscapes of Nazi Genocide and Persecution

Colls

2012

Journal of Conflict Archaeology

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The landscapes and material remains of the Holocaust survive in various forms as physical reminders of the suffering and persecution of this period in European history. However, whilst clearly defined historical narratives exist, many of the archaeological remnants of these sites remain ill-defined, unrecorded and even, in some cases, unlocated. Such a situation has arisen as a result of a number of political, social, ethical and religious factors which, coupled with the scale of the crimes, has often inhibited systematic search. This thesis will outline how a noninvasive archaeological methodology has been implemented at two case study sites, with such issues at its core, thus allowing them to be addressed in terms of their scientific and historical value, whilst acknowledging their commemorative and religious significance. In doing so, this thesis also demonstrates how a study of the physical remains of the Holocaust can reveal as much about the ever-changing cultural memory of these events as it can the surviving remnants of camps, execution sites and other features associated with this period. By demonstrating the diversity and complexity of Holocaust landscapes, a case is presented for a subdiscipline of Holocaust Archaeology.'I have buried this among the ashes where people will certainly dig to find the traces of millions of men who were exterminated' (Salmen Gradowski in Bezwinska 1973:75) This thesis is dedicated to all those whose lives have been, and will be, affected by the Holocaust. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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“…Certain sacred spaces may be 'agreed-upon' by religious insiders and respected by outsiders (McAlister, 2005); yet, the adjective 'sacred' may apply equally to a site 'that has the capacity to be remembered and to evoke what is most precious' (Sheldrake, 2001: 1). Examples of such sacralization would be temporary roadside shrines that memorialize victims of traffic collisions and help to make sense of inexplicable loss (Collins and Opie, 2010) and sites of terror such as Ground Zero (Jacobs, 2004).…”

Section: Sacred Spacementioning

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Mobilizing Cathedral Metaphors: The Case of ‘Sacred Space, Common Ground’

Muskett

2016

Practical Theology

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From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence

Cited by 27 publications

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Mapping grief. A conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance

Mapping grief. A conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance

Holocaust Archaeology: Archaeological Approaches to Landscapes of Nazi Genocide and Persecution

Mobilizing Cathedral Metaphors: The Case of ‘Sacred Space, Common Ground’

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