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Bastille Effect: transforming sites of political imprisonment

Objektkategorie:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Welch, Michael
Bereitstellende Institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Verlag:
University of California Press
Ort:
Oakland, California
Entstehungszeit:
[2022]
Sprache:
Englisch
Abstract:
"As conceptualized throughout this richly illustrated book, the Bastille Effect represents the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally. In their afterlives, these sites deliver critiques of political imprisonment and the sustained efforts to hold perpetrators accountable for state violence. However, for that narrative to surface, the sites are cleansed of their profane past, and in some cases clergy are even enlisted to perform purifying rituals that grant the sites a new place identity as memorials. For example, at Villa Grimaldi, a former detention and torture center in Santiago, Chile, activists condemn the brutal Pinochet dictatorship by honoring the memory of victims, allowing the space to emerge as a "park for peace." Throughout the Southern Cone of Latin America, and elsewhere around the globe, carceral sites have been dramatically repurposed into places of enlightenment that offer inspiring allegories of human rights. Interpreting the complexities of those common threads, this book weaves together a broad range of cultural, interdisciplinary, and critical thought to offer new insights into the study of political imprisonment, collective memory, and postconflict societies"--
Objekttext:
Michael Welch
Includes bibliographical references and index
Inhalt:
The sacred and the profane -- In search of signs -- Diagrams of power -- Technologies of power -- Performing memory.

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Datensatz angelegt am:
2023-04-12
Zuletzt geändert am:
2022-11-03
In Portal übernommen am:
2023-04-12

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