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VIEWPOINT: Hello to all that – the constrictive cult of public anniversaries

By discoversociety
June 03, 2015

Peter Nias (University of Bradford) Diaries are full of them. So are the television and radio. Books, newspapers and magazines revel [...]

ON THE FRONTLINE: Towards an Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

By discoversociety
June 03, 2015

Veterans For Peace Full Disclosure Campaign On May 25, 2012, in announcing a 13-year long commemoration of the war in Viet [...]

POLICY BRIEFING: Towards a Decolonial Curatorial Practice

By discoversociety
June 03, 2015

Chandra Frank (Goldsmiths, University of London) Curating exhibitions on forgotten histories, contested legacies and silenced memories calls for a systematic decolonial [...]

Black to the Future: In Memoriam

By discoversociety
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 [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

The Breivik Killings – remembering the victims, depoliticizing the crime

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June 03, 2015

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

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 [...]

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 [...]