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Black to the Future: In Memoriam

Black to the Future: In Memoriam

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  • June 03, 2015

Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University)    Your people will change. Your young will be more like us and ours more like you. Your hierarchical tendencies [...]

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Power in Naming: Reparations, Memorials, and Chicago Police Torture

Power in Naming: Reparations, Memorials, and Chicago Police Torture

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Alice Kim and Vickie Casanova Willis (Chicago Torture Justice Memorials) Ferguson, New York, Florida, Baltimore, Chicago. Everywhere, it seems, Black life matters [...]

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‘Make of Me a Memory Once More’: Remembering Black Europe through Literature

‘Make of Me a Memory Once More’: Remembering Black Europe through Literature

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Vicky Margree (University of Brighton) In 2005 the cultural critic Paul Gilroy warned against the ‘synonymity of European and white’. He [...]

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The Breivik Killings – remembering the victims, depoliticizing the crime

The Breivik Killings – remembering the victims, depoliticizing the crime

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Sara Edenheim (Umeå University) The first commemoration of the terrorist attacks on Utøya and in Oslo where 77 people lost their [...]

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The Nakba in Israel: from contra-memory to divided memory

The Nakba in Israel: from contra-memory to divided memory

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Raya Cohen (archiviomemoriemigranti)  One current issue in the role of memory in contemporary Israel is that the events of 1947-49 that [...]

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Things still fall apart: the politics of memory in Côte d’Ivoire

Things still fall apart: the politics of memory in Côte d’Ivoire

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Nicoletta Fagiolo (Independent Researcher) Photo: A non-violent and unarmed sit-in to block the security forces from breaking up an Ivorian Popular [...]

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Re-branding the Trauma of Slavery, or How to Pacify the Masses with Sites of Memory

Re-branding the Trauma of Slavery, or How to Pacify the Masses with Sites of Memory

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Olivette Otele (Bath Spa University) Finding new ways to involve the population in memorial projects was at the heart of the [...]

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Curating/Creating, Art/Activism: the Place of Collective Participation

Curating/Creating, Art/Activism: the Place of Collective Participation

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton) In a small shop on a side street in Belfast’s city centre an exhibition entitled Everyday [...]

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Connecting through Creativity: The Power of Stories

Connecting through Creativity: The Power of Stories

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Ann O’Sullivan and Jackie Reynolds (Staffordshire University) “Art and literature have been taking human beings on empathic journeys ever since the [...]

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Getting Malled in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City

Getting Malled in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2015

Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University), Marcus Hunter (Yale University), and Kevin Loughran (Northwestern University) As cities struggled in the last half [...]

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