1st Edition

Archiving Loss Holding Places for Difficult Memories

By Martine Hawkes Copyright 2018
154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories asks how we might cut and walk a path for memory, loss, and silence in the archive. The difficult events discussed in this book include state responses to refugees, events of genocide, alongside other less documented pockets of trauma, violence, and... Read more

Introduction: Pouring Memory

Part I: The Archive

Chapter 1: Power in the Archives

Chapter 2: Expectations in the Archive

Chapter 3: Archives and Difficult Events

Part II: Archive Fever

Chapter 4: Counting to Discount

Chapter 5: The Language and Logic of the Archive

Part III: Remembering in the Archive

Chapter 6: Archival Filters

Chapter 7: The Archive as a Gate Opener

Chapter 8: Loss and the Archive

References

Index

Biography

Martine Louise Hawkes, PhD, is a researcher based at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Her research interests centre on the landscapes and places of memory and social and personal constructions of memory after loss.