Grassroots memorials : the politics of memorializing traumatic death /: the politics of memorializing traumatic death. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero.
• Other Names: Margry, P. J (Peter Jan); Sánchez Carretero, Cristina
• Contents: "Difficult remembrance" : memorializing mafia victims in Palermo / Deborah Puccio-Den -- Ritual mediations of violent death : an ethnography of the Theo van gogh memorial site, Amsterdam / Irene Stengs -- Between commemoration and social activism : spontaneous shrines, grassroots memorialization, and the public ritualesque in Derry / Jack Santino -- Memorializing shooters with their victims : Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University / Sylvia Grider -- Contesting objectionable death -- Marking death : grief, protest and politics after a fatal traffic accident / Monika Rulfs -- Ghost bikes : memorialization and protest on city streets / Robert Thomas Dobler -- Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish cities / Ewa Klekot -- Remembering la tragedia : commemorations of the floods of 1999 in Venezuela / Sandrine Revet -- Sociability and reflexive anti-terrorism -- Street shrines and the writing of disaster : 9/11, New York 2001 / Beatrice Fraenkel -- The Madrid train bombings : enacting the emotional body at the march 11 grassroots memorials / Cristina Sanchez-Carretero -- Purification and remembrance : eastern and western ways to deal with the Bali bombing / Huub de Jonge -- Instrumentalizing repositories of memory -- Collecting and interpreting spontaneous shrines and memorials / James B. Gardner -- Piazza Carlo Giuliani. Genova, G8/2001 : death, testimony, memory / Fabio Caffarena & Carlo Stiaccini -- Memorializing a controversial politician : the "heritageization" of a materialized Vox Populi / Peter Jan Margry.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 374 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 393/.9; Death -- Social aspects; Memorialization; Social movements -- Political aspects; Social Science; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Death -- Social aspects; Memorialization; Social movements -- Political aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857451903; 0857451901
• Related ISBNs: 9780857451897; 0857451898
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.