The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Three Decades of Human Rights' Activism: Embeddedness, Emotions, and Social Movements

Bosco, Fernando J.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00481.x

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“…If we are able to circulate the testimony beyond the Filipino-Canadian community, what dangers attend our success? We are counting on the affective force of maternal narratives, as have many feminist activists in other contexts (e.g., Bejarano 2002;Bosco 2004Bosco , 2006Wright 2007). But maternal narratives make for risky politics, and what Lauren Berlant (2005, 62) calls 'ethicoemotional performance in the political sphere' often preserves rather than disrupts the status quo.…”

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Circulating sadness: witnessing Filipina mothers' stories of family separation

Pratt

2009

Gender, Place & Culture

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Circulating sadness: witnessing Filipina mothers' stories of family separation

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“…Research highlights how personal and shared memory practices are at once embedded, yet move in and through a range of spaces, such as through spectral geographies, bodies in motion, emotional attachments, social movements and global networks (bosco 2006;Hill 2013;KuusisTo-arponen 2011). Memory politics are never only 'located' in Cartesian space; as transcultural signifiers they are communicated across and through spaces and places, and travel through and with personal and shared emotions, memories, and affects (derrida 1995; nora and KriTzman 1996; KuusisTo-arponen 2009; erll 2011).…”

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Towards responsible geographies of memory: complexities of place and the ethics of remembering

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Kuusisto–Arponen²

2015

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Summary:Debates about the meanings of place often emerge when unsettled pasts resurface unexpectedly in ways that dislocate present-day land-uses. Such was the case for the IGU 2011 Regional Meeting in Chile, which was held in Santiago's Military Academy. When considering the geographical scholarship about place and memory, the debates resulting from the conference should not be surprising. Geographers have long examined the controversial processes of social memory and forgetting at places marked by state-perpetrated violence and have noted the unpredictability of group memory due to the translocal nature of how places are connected to peoples and pasts through socio-political networks, cultural and economic connections, and personal and shared emotional geographies. To understand the complexities of ethical relationships we have with places marked by violence, we look to another example, the Memorial and Museum Camp Westerbork in the Netherlands. The past is never 'set in stone' or stable in present-day landscapes. Just as the narratives associated with remembering and forgetting the past may change through time, so too do the spatial contexts of memory. When space-times shift unexpectedly, new social discussions about the significance of the past in the present may emerge. With both examples in mind, we conclude by making a case for the creation of "responsible geographies of memory". We argue that it is our professional responsibility as geographers and our obligation as global citizens to: 1) acknowledge that landscapes often function as places of critical testimony for survivors; 2) problematize singular claims to the authenticity of place made through universal narratives and seemingly stable material landscapes; 3) create safe spaces of listening, wherein stories about place can be articulated and acknowledged by various stakeholders, while recognizing the moral complexities in representing violence through textual, visual and embodied means; and 4) recognize the progressive potential of places as cosmopolitan spaces of encounter and learning. By treating places marked by difficult pasts as cosmopolitan, hosts and visitors are invited to engage critically with the unfolding processes of memory politics, and adopt respectful approaches toward justice that includes caring for places and peoples in the past and present.Zusammenfassung: Debatten über die Bedeutung von Orten der Erinnerung entstehen oftmals, wenn eine nicht aufgearbeitete Vergangenheit die gegenwärtige Nutzung dieser Orte in unerwarteter Weise in Frage stellt. Genau dies war der Fall, als im Jahr 2001 das IGU Regional Meeting in Chile in Santiagos Militärakademie ausgerichtet wurde. Ein Blick in die einschlägige geographische Literatur über Erinnerungsorte lässt die aus dieser Konferenz sich ergebende Debatte kaum überraschend erscheinen. Die kontroversen Prozesse kollektiven Gedenkens und Vergessens an Orten, die durch staatlich verübte Gewaltverbrechen gekennzeichnet sind, gelten seit langem als Gegenstand geographischer Forschung. Die Erken...

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“…Of particular relevance to our study is the way in which emotions are often experienced, made understandable and symbolised in architecture (Lees and Baxter 2011;Bosco 2006;Blunt 2003). Positive emotions, including feelings of being loved and belonging, a sense of safety and security, identity and self-worth, may be tied to the built environment of one's home or community.…”

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‘Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design

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(2015) '`Therapeutic landscapes' and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design.', Health place., 33 . pp. 83-89. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace. 2015.02.010 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Health place, 33, 2015Health place, 33, , 10.1016Health place, 33, /j.healthplace.2015 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Highlights:• We emphasise how emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces are important • Emotions and memories of spaces can impinge on one's present therapeutic experience • We interpret our research by using a Therapeutic landscapes framework • We relate our research to ideas about salvage and abandonment • Our research highlights recommendations for good practice in hospital design 'Therapeutic Landscapes' and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for Psychiatric Hospital design. AbstractWe examine emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces of care, linked with past experiences. In this paper we draw on findings from a qualitative study of the transfer of psychiatric inpatient care from an old to a newly built facility. We show how the meanings attributed to 'therapeutic landscapes' from one's past can evoke emotions and memories, manifesting in ideas about nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment, which can impinge on one's present therapeutic experience. We reflect on how consideration of these ideas might contribute to better future design of psychiatric inpatient facilities and the wellbeing of those using them.

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The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Three Decades of Human Rights' Activism: Embeddedness, Emotions, and Social Movements

Cited by 181 publications

References 48 publications

Circulating sadness: witnessing Filipina mothers' stories of family separation

Circulating sadness: witnessing Filipina mothers' stories of family separation

Towards responsible geographies of memory: complexities of place and the ethics of remembering

‘Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design

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