Questioning Traumatic Heritage

Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America

Ihab Saloul, Patrizia Violi, Anna Lorusso, Cristina Demaria

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040791264
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of actions might be taken both to improve knowledge of the past and to serve as an opening to a discussion of current social issues.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Questioning Traumatic Heritages and Spaces of Memory
• 1 Constant Consensus Building: Art and Conflict in the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory
• 2 Why Matter Matters Doris: Salcedo's Material Memorial Movements
• 3 Trauma and Allegory: Truthfulness in Fact and Fiction and Making a Private Archive Productive
• 4 Hypermnesia and Amnesia: Remembering (with) the Body and Post-Conflict Memorials and Architectures
• 5 Art and Memory: Magdalenas por el Cauca
• 6 “Adapt or Resist?”: Narratives of Implication and Perpetration in the Verzetsmuseum in Amsterdam
• 7 Entanglements of Art and Memory Activism in Hungary's Illiberal Democracy
• 8 Memory, Art and Intergenerational Transmission: Artistic Practices with Young People in Memory Sites in Argentina
• 9 Representing the Trauma of Colonialism in Museum Exhibitions Cape: Coast Castle and the International Slavery Museum
• 10 The Dogma of Irrepresentability and the Double Bind of Holocaust Memory
• 11 Entangled Memories of Colonialism and Antisemitism: The Scandal of Taring Padi's “People's Justice” at Documenta 15 (2022)
• 12 Objects Despite Everything: Testimonial Objects Between Memory and Trauma
• Index