Using history in the streetscape to affirm geopolitics of memory

Drozdzewski, Danielle

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.06.004

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“…114 In post-conflict, post-genocide landscapes such as the unsettled present-day landscapes of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the writing of a spectral presence can in part sanitise the very real and painful corporeal traumatic past, leading to a speaking-for and an over-writing of the embodied practices that take-place in the landscapes themselves, after genocide. 115 Defining a landscape in this ghostly way can in turn present the Balkans as a photographic negative of Europe, created through spectral representations of the Balkans and the ghosts of the past engender an inherently violent region, or Europe's repressed reverse. 116 Writing the landscape, 4.…”

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Landscape after genocide

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The March of Peace (Marš mira) is a 63-mile, 3-day walk through eastern Bosnia organised in memory of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and traces in reverse a death march. Marchers take a trail from Nezuk, stopping at mass graves found along the way, arriving at the memorial cemetery in Potočari a day prior to the annual mass funeral for victims who have been recently exhumed. This article charts the journey from the death march to the peace march and asks the reader to assess the efficacy of embodied memory-work and the ethical responsibility to undertake – and responsibilities when undertaking – alternative memory-work in post-genocide landscapes and sites of mass murder, through a series of rhetorical shifts. A number of frames are enacted to challenge other more linear and conventional approaches, allowing the sociological and political productivity of engaging with post-genocide landscapes in a post-conflict state to emerge, referencing dissident forms of remembrance through the method of walking-with others while traversing this post-genocide landscape on foot. Travelling-with around 8,000 mourners, some of whom were survivors of the death march, the aim here is not to simply describe what is taking place; rather, the journey is undertaken in order to activate a space – a space within which I might engage with issues of landscape, conflict and memory in the context of their current discussion within cultural and political geography, genocide studies and memory studies, and more importantly to speak of genocide and a post-genocide landscape.

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“…However, the newly installed Soviet regime chose to rename seven streets within the Krakow Old Town and its ring roads. 71 The common intention of these new names was to explicate fascist failure and German's subjugation of the Poles, but the choice of location of these renamed streets, in the Old Town, expounds the usefulness of both name and location. For example, a large section of the ring road around the perimeter of the Old Town, along which trams and buses traverse, was renamed May Day (Święto Pierwszego Maja)an important date in the Soviet calendar instituted to reinforce the collective experience and identity of workers in the socialist-controlled Soviet territories.…”

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Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns

Drozdzewski¹,

Waterton²,

Sumartojo³

2019

Int. rev. Red Cross

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Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking creates shared national narratives that temporally reinforce identities across the geography of the nation and among diverse citizenry. In this paper, the authors turn their attention towards the experiential and place-based concerns of the politics of memory within the context of war. It is argued that through attentiveness to individual experience we can better understand how cultural memory is enveloped into constructions of identity and critique such constructions alongside official narratives.

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“…Rather, they argue that everyday nationhood should be “understood in multiple temporal and spatial dimensions” (Fox & Miller‐Idriss, : 574). Whereas the past and present are included in current analyses of both the nation (see, e.g., Drozdzewski, ; Lavi, ) and everyday nationhood (Erdal & Strømsø, ), discussion of the future is missing. The present study, as already hinted, offers empirical and theoretical insights regarding this overlooked dimension.…”

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Parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood and their transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation

Strømsø

2019

Population Space and Place

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This article contends that parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood provide insights into a transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation. Built on 30 interviews in Oslo, Norway, this study shows that when choosing a neighbourhood for where their children will grow up, parents create the spatial and social frame of the everyday life within which their children will be socialised—of which socialisation into the nation is one element. Through their sociospatial preferences, one elicits their notions on who belongs where not only in the neighbourhoods of Oslo but also to the nation. Balancing ideals and values both for their children and for themselves, the parents draw on multiple temporalities—past, present, and future—of an imagined community, which in turn offer evidence that how nation and diversity coexist, changes with time. A change, where diversity is envisioned as an integral part of the nation, as both contradictory and intertwined.

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Using history in the streetscape to affirm geopolitics of memory

Cited by 37 publications

References 36 publications

Landscape after genocide

Landscape after genocide

Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns

Parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood and their transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation

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