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Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections
278 pages, Paperback
Published February 11, 2025
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February 16, 2025
This was a difficult read, and so necessary.
We have a collection/collective of authors speaking to grief, joy, and memorializing from a deeply intersectional feminist perspective. There is death, there is resistance, there survival.
Some of the accounts are highly academic. This prevented me from engaging with text early on. I urge the reader to persevere. There is such a diversity of voices and modes of engagement on the topic, including interviews and poetry.
The hurt is very real and alive. My awareness was raised to so much, I find it hard to summarize or articulate how I feel. I love learning about Canadian Justice Shaun Nakatsuru who dared to write simple and readable decisions soaked in social justice. I was unsettled (but not so surprised) to learn about how nations reconfigure their reaction to horrific incidents when it becomes a matter of reputation. I was inspired by Sakine Cansiz (Sara), an Iranian revolutionary who went through so much and kept fighting until the bitter end, with a lot of candour despite it all. I felt privileged to come into a deeper understanding of beadwork and resilience.
This text is as much about counter-narratives as it is about memorializing. "We live a speculative life—a mode of suspension in which death is too close and real." We're never far away from reality, always haunted by the unnecessary and pervasive violence of powerful others, and our deep love for those who become victims.
To end, I want to highlight that, while not live yet, an online digital archive is in the works, I think it will be essential supplementary reading:
https://memorializingviolence.com/dig...
Thank you to Edelweiss+ and Rutgers University Press for the advance copy.
We have a collection/collective of authors speaking to grief, joy, and memorializing from a deeply intersectional feminist perspective. There is death, there is resistance, there survival.
Some of the accounts are highly academic. This prevented me from engaging with text early on. I urge the reader to persevere. There is such a diversity of voices and modes of engagement on the topic, including interviews and poetry.
The hurt is very real and alive. My awareness was raised to so much, I find it hard to summarize or articulate how I feel. I love learning about Canadian Justice Shaun Nakatsuru who dared to write simple and readable decisions soaked in social justice. I was unsettled (but not so surprised) to learn about how nations reconfigure their reaction to horrific incidents when it becomes a matter of reputation. I was inspired by Sakine Cansiz (Sara), an Iranian revolutionary who went through so much and kept fighting until the bitter end, with a lot of candour despite it all. I felt privileged to come into a deeper understanding of beadwork and resilience.
This text is as much about counter-narratives as it is about memorializing. "We live a speculative life—a mode of suspension in which death is too close and real." We're never far away from reality, always haunted by the unnecessary and pervasive violence of powerful others, and our deep love for those who become victims.
To end, I want to highlight that, while not live yet, an online digital archive is in the works, I think it will be essential supplementary reading:
https://memorializingviolence.com/dig...
Thank you to Edelweiss+ and Rutgers University Press for the advance copy.
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