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Title Grassroots memorials [electronic resource] : the politics of memorializing traumatic death / edited by Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sanchez-Carretero.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 374 p. : ill.
Series Remapping cultural history ; 12
Remapping cultural history ; v. 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Difficult remembrance" : memorializing mafia victims in Palermo / Deborah Puccio-Den -- Ritual mediations of violent death : an ethnography of the Theo van gogh memorial site, Amsterdam / Irene Stengs -- Between commemoration and social activism : spontaneous shrines, grassroots memorialization, and the public ritualesque in Derry / Jack Santino -- Memorializing shooters with their victims : Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University / Sylvia Grider -- Contesting objectionable death -- Marking death : grief, protest and politics after a fatal traffic accident / Monika Rulfs -- Ghost bikes : memorialization and protest on city streets / Robert Thomas Dobler -- Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish cities / Ewa Klekot -- Remembering la tragedia : commemorations of the floods of 1999 in Venezuela / Sandrine Revet -- Sociability and reflexive anti-terrorism -- Street shrines and the writing of disaster : 9/11, New York 2001 / Beatrice Fraenkel -- The Madrid train bombings : enacting the emotional body at the march 11 grassroots memorials / Cristina Sanchez-Carretero -- Purification and remembrance : eastern and western ways to deal with the Bali bombing / Huub de Jonge -- Instrumentalizing repositories of memory -- Collecting and interpreting spontaneous shrines and memorials / James B. Gardner -- Piazza Carlo Giuliani. Genova, G8/2001 : death, testimony, memory / Fabio Caffarena & Carlo Stiaccini -- Memorializing a controversial politician : the "heritageization" of a materialized Vox Populi / Peter Jan Margry.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Death -- Social aspects.
Memorialization.
Social movements -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)
Sanchez Carretero, Cristina.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780857451897 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857451903 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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