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Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2021
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2021
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Sites of violence and their communities: critical memory studies in the post-human era
By Roma SendykaAbstract “Sites of Violence and their Communities” presents the results of a research project that brought together scholars and practitioners of memory work in an attempt to critically reinterpret the links between sites, their (human, and non-human) users, and memory. These interdisciplinary discussions focused on overlooked, repressed or ignored sites of violence that may benefit from new approaches t Read More
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Necrocartography: Topographies and topologies of non-sites of memory
Authors: Aleksandra Szczepan & Kinga SiewiorAbstract Based on the experience of spatial confusion and inadequacy common during visits to uncommemorated sites of violence, the authors propose expanding the topological reflection in the research on the spatialities of the Holocaust, as well as to introduce topology into the analysis of the everyday experiences of users of the postgenocidal space of Central and Eastern Europe. The research material is composed of han Read More
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Testimoniality: A lexicon of witnesses of Holocaust non-sites of memory in Poland
Authors: Maria Kobielska & Aleksandra SzczepanAbstract The authors analyse grassroots modalities of the figure of witness in the communities living in the vicinity of uncommemorated sites of past violence. Testimoniality, understood as the disposition to bear witness, i.e. both the willingness to testify and the ability to provide important information, is discussed in relation to complex, heterogenic and dynamic assemblages that form around the sites in question, comprisi Read More
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Vernacular historical practices on Holocaust non-sites of memory in Poland
More LessAbstract The approach employed by memory activists to sites of memory often involves historical practices. This paper presents the results of the examination of historical practices undertaken in locations of Holocaust violence during World War II and the disposal of victims’ remains that were not memorialised properly according to local residents or other groups with an interest in the sites’ past. The analysed practices were o Read More
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Vernacular memory and implicated communities
More LessAbstract Abandoned sites of trauma in Poland appear to be forgotten, but their removal from social and cultural circles is only superficial. Frequently, these sites are inscribed into the local culture of memory and members of the local Polish communities can usually locate them and share stories about them. However, as they are not commemorated, there is an ambivalent aura around them. In 2017 two foundations Read More
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Ceremonial events at non-sites of memory: Seven framings of a difficult past
More LessAbstract Abstract: The author discusses uncommemorated and under-remembered sites of past violence in terms of the conditions of their transformation into memory sites. Commemorative ceremonies, which may be staged at non-sites of memory, are presented as affective media of memory and identity, demonstrating social responses to the sites, as well as placing the local past in the context of supra-local memory Read More
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The “Alert” for non-sites of memory: a 1965 scout action of discovering and describing Second World War sites in Poland
More LessAbstract During the First Scouting Alert (Poland 1965), scouts were tasked with finding and describing sites related to the events of Second World War. Those were mostly monuments, places of conflict, graves and body disposal pits. The scouts were tasked with finding such sites in their neighbourhood according to information collected from local communities. The campaign resulted in 26,000 reports in form of the regis Read More
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Depth of the field. Bystanders’ art, forensic art practice and non-sites of memory
Authors: Aleksandra Janus & Roma SendykaAbstract Abandoned sites of trauma often become objects of art-based research. The forensic turn offered artists the requisite tools to approach uncommemorated post-violence sites to interact with their human and non-human actors. The usage of artistic methods allows us to inspect nondiscursive archives and retrieve information otherwise unavailable. The new wave of “forensic art” joins the efforts of post-war artist Read More
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Radecznica memory game. An educational workshop
Authors: Tomasz Z. Majkowski & Katarzyna SuszkiewiczAbstract The paper describes and discusses the educational workshop in the form of a board game jam held in Radecznica, a village in Eastern Poland. The event, organised by researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, was a follow-up of the research project on uncommemorated Jewish mass graves in the area. The aim of the workshop was to facilitate individual reflection on local Holocaust killi Read More
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Sites of violence and their communities: Critical memory studies in the post-human era (Kraków, 24–25 September 2019)
More LessAbstract This discussion gathers voices of an international group of researchers and practitioners from various disciplines and institutions who focus on diverse aspects of sites of past violence in their work: archaeology, history, ethics, literature and art, curatorial practices, oral history, education and commemoration. The debate, which took place during the conference “Sites of Violence and Their Communities: Cri Read More
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