Theorizing Otherwise: Sites of Conscience and Gendered Violence. Issue 2 (May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tumarkin, Maria
• Other Names: Lloyd Justine guest-editor.; Steele Linda guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Space and culture. Volume 25:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 331
• Page End: 340
• Publication Date: 2022-05
• Subjects: site of conscience -- gendered violence -- domestic abuse -- trauma -- memorialization -- time; Human geography -- Periodicals; Spatial behavior -- Periodicals; Space (Architecture) -- Periodicals; Personal space -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Comportement spatial -- Périodiques; Espace (Architecture) -- Périodiques; Espace personnel -- Périodiques; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/12063312211065561
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-8308

Abstract

This article starts with the idea that a site of conscience is uniquely capable of keeping alive in the public imagination—as an open wound and as a call to action—the devastating persistence of gendered violence. It doesn't seek to offer an account of how such a site might come to be imagined, let alone come into being. Instead, its focus is on the conceptual work required to make space for this kind of imagining. I argue that it is important to make and maintain a distinction between a site of memory and a site of conscience and that the category of time needs to be denaturalized and reconsidered in our conceptualization of the cultural work performed by sites of conscience.