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Book SynopsisGrassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms...
Trade Review “It is evident that the editors have gone to some considerable effort to assemble a rich, diverse ethnographic treasure-trove, and to anticipate any charges of Eurocentrism by also drawing on examples of makeshift memorials from other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the thoughtful reflexivity demonstrated by several of the contributors vis-à-vis their own emotional and epistemological locations within the case studies is refreshing and praiseworthy.” · Folklore
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots Memorials
Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
PART I: NEGOTIATING SOCIETAL VIOLENCE
Chapter 1. “Difficult Remembrance”: Memorializing Mafi a Victims in Palermo
Deborah Puccio-Den
Chapter 2. Ritual Mediations of Violent Death: An Ethnography of the Theo van Gogh Memorial Site, Amsterdam
Irene Stengs
Chapter 3. Between Commemoration and Social Activism: Spontaneous Shrines, Grassroots Memorialization, and the Public Ritualesque in Derry
Jack Santino
Chapter 4. Memorializing Shooters with Their Victims: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University
Sylvia Grider
PART II: CONTESTING OBJECTIONABLE DEATH
Chapter 5. Marking Death: Grief, Protest, and Politics after a Fatal Traffic Accident
Monika Rulfs
Chapter 6. Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City Streets
Robert Thomas Dobler
Chapter 7. Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish Cities
Ewa Klekot
Chapter 8. Remembering La Tragedia: Commemorations of the 1999 Floods in Venezuela 208
Sandrine Revet
PART III: SOCIABILITY AND REFLEXIVE ANTITERRORISM
Chapter 9. Street Shrines and the Writing of Disaster: 9/11, New York, 2001
Béatrice Fraenkel
Chapter 10. The Madrid Train Bombings: Enacting the Emotional Body at the March 11 Grassroots Memorials
Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Chapter 11. Purification and Remembrance: Eastern and Western Ways of Dealing with the Bali Bombing
Huub de Jonge
PART IV: INSTRUMENTALIZING REPOSITORIES OF MEMORY
Chapter 12. September 11: Museums, Spontaneous Memorials, and History
James B. Gardner
Chapter 13. Piazza Carlo Giuliani - G8 Summit, Genoa 2001: Death, Testimony, Memory
Fabio Caffarena and Carlo Stiaccini
Chapter 14. Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The "Heritagization" of a Materialized Vox Populi
Peter Jan Margry
Notes on Contributors
Index
