{"id":274,"date":"2020-12-23T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cfrdev\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2025-01-03T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:17:07","slug":"memory-and-memorialization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cfr\/memory-and-memorialization\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory and Memorialization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence are remembered and memorialized\u2014through, for example, memorials, museums, archives, performances, and art installations\u2014are sites of constant contestation and anxiety. Questions of who and what gets remembered or forgotten, whose loss mourned and grieved, and how and what kinds of memorialization processes are assigned cultural value while others are made absent, are shaped by racially gendered histories, ideologies, subjectivities, and imaginaries. They also emerge within and are shaped by\u2013sometimes in resistance to\u2013transnational relations, discourses, ideologies, market flows, border controls, migration patterns, legal frameworks, media culture, and more. This cluster invokes a broad and intersectional understanding of the transnational that attends to the particularities of place-based struggles and different experiences as the grounds from which to explore connections, similarities, and coalitional possibilities within, across, and through borders and contexts. This cluster asks what a transnational feminist lens might reveal about the space of remembrance and memorialization. Simultaneously, cluster members seek to explore what the lens of memory and memorialization may conversely illuminate about our transnational feminist engagements, scholarly, artistic, activist, and otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through individual and collaborative projects, events, workshops, publications, and an interactive digital archive (in development), this cluster fosters critical dialogue, collaboration, and research innovation in feminist memory studies. Faculty and students in the group come from York University, but also from other institutions in Canada and internationally. They represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, gender and women studies, fine arts, environmental studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, South Asian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Thinking through the relationship between memory and memorialization to explore a wide range of memory projects as they reconfigure, perform, and transform (transnational) relations of power between individuals, communities, and the state in the aftermath of violence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Analyzing critically the process of memorialization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Examining feminist (re)constructions of memory and the ways that memory projects can be acts of resistance and contestation to the hegemonic when they seek to excavate and make known knowledge, experiences, and forms of agency that have been suppressed. We seek to understand how memorialization contributes to reshaping and reimagining our understandings of history and subjectivity by bringing to the fore what the past means to those who have experienced its oppression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Facilitating collaboration with scholars nationally and internationally.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Edited by Alison Crosby & Heather Evans<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Memorializing Violence<\/em> brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate\u2013as well as urges to forget\u2013in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. The volume uses a transnational feminist approach to ask, How do such efforts in seemingly unconnected remembrance landscapes speak to, with, and through each other in a world order inflected by colonial, imperial, and neoliberal logics, structures, and strictures? How do these memorializing initiatives not only formulate within but move through complex transnational flows and circuits, and what transpires as they do? What does it mean to inhabit loss, mourning, resistance, and refusal through memorialization at this moment, and what\u2019s at stake in doing so? What might transnational feminist analyses of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nation have to offer in this regard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Featuring work by <\/strong>Carmela Murdocca, Amber Dean, Karine Duhamel, Irma Alicia Vel\u00e1squez Nimatuj, Mar\u00eda de los \u00c1ngeles Aguilar, Pilar Ria\u00f1o-Alcal\u00e1, Shahrzad Mojab, Chowra Makaremi, Ayu Ratih, Honor Ford-Smith, Juanita Stephen, Erica S. Lawson, Ola Osman, Alma Cordelia Rizzo Reyes, Charlotte Henay, Camille Turner & Mila Mendez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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