Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Multi-Layered Memories of Space....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Violent Erasures and Erasing Violence: Contesting Cambodia’s Landscapes of Violence....Pages 21-33
Polish Landscapes of Memory at the Sites of Extermination: The Politics of Framing....Pages 34-47
Spaces of Confrontation and Defeat: The Spatial Dispossession of the Revolution in Tucumán, Argentina....Pages 48-60
Subterranean Autopsies: Exhumations of Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain....Pages 61-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Faces, Voices and the Shadow of Catastrophe....Pages 77-90
The Cartographer. Warsaw, 1: 400,000....Pages 91-104
’All Limits Were Exceeded Over There’: The Chronotope of Terror in Modern Warfare and Testimony....Pages 105-118
The Concentration Camp and the ‘Unhomely Home’: The Disappearance of Children in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Theatre....Pages 119-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
’The Whole Country Is a Monument’: Framing Places of Terror in Post-War Germany....Pages 135-149
Haunted Houses, Horror Literature and the Space of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Literature....Pages 150-161
Counter-Movement, Space and Politics: How the Saturday Mothers of Turkey Make Enforced Disappearances Visible....Pages 162-175
An Orderly Landscape of Remnants: Notes for Reflecting on the Spatiality of the Disappeared....Pages 176-187
A Limitless Grave: Memory and Abjection of the Río de la Plata....Pages 188-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Spatialities of Exception....Pages 205-218
Imaginary Cities, Violence and Memory: A Literary Mapping....Pages 219-230
Occupied Squares and the Urban ‘State of Exception’: In, Against and Beyond the City of Enclaves....Pages 231-243
‘Memory, that Powerful Political Force’....Pages 244-253
Back Matter....Pages 254-265