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This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes 'crisis', this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing, and identity.
List of contents
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Contributor’s Biographies, Introduction (Fiona Larkan and Fiona Murphy), Part I: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration, 1. A Matter of Fact?: The Propaganda of Peace and the Ulster Loyalist Hauntology during the ‘Decade of Centenaries.’ (Jonathan Evershed), 2. Memorialising the Story of Australian Aboriginal Child Removal: The Story of Reconciliation Place (Fiona Murphy), 3. ‘Here’s Lookin’ at EU Kid’: Memory and Recovery in Places, Non-places and Everywhere in Between (Sean O’Dubhghaill), 4. The Dynamics of Commemoration in Twenty-First-Century Ireland (Michael Cronin), Part II: Identity and Memory , 5. ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever’: Faith Memory, Crisis and How Reborn Members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Make Home in Ireland (Kathleen Openshaw), 6. Reappropriating Colouredness (Fiona Larkan), 7. Recalling the Past in Song: Mande Hunters’ Musical Ceremonies (Theodore Konkouris), 8. History on Trial: H.I.J.O.S., memory and reparation in the court of Tucumán/Argentina (Katja Seidel), Part III: Economic Crises and Memory, 9. Recovery from Traumatic Memory in Irish Society: Moving Beyond Diametric Structured Myths, Experience and Social Processes (Paul Downes), 10. Memory, Hope and Recovery in Greece (Daniel M. Knight), 11. Delayed Protest Responses to Austerity and Irish Post-Colonial Memory: Trauma, Collective Action and the Irish Economic Crisis 2010–2012 (Niamh Hourigan), Index
About the author
Dr Fiona Larkan is a medical anthropologist with a research interest in chronic disease and illness, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. For the past 15 years she has worked extensively in the area of HIV and related illnesses, and her PhD was a comparative ethnographic account of Sexuality and Risk in South Africa and Ireland. Based at the Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, Fiona has a strong commitment to education. She directs the MSc Global Health programme and is co-founder of the recently established Irish Medical Anthropology Network, which aims to develop social medical education throughout Ireland. She has published in anthropological and social medical journals; is the former editor of the Irish Journal of Anthropology and current Deputy Editor of Globalization and Health.
Dr Fiona Murphy is an anthropologist working at the Senator George J.Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queens University Belfast. She received her PhD in 2009 from the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University for work focusing on the cultural modalities of trauma, memory and reconciliation amongst Aboriginal Australians who were forcibly removed from their families. Fiona has published a number of book chapters and articles on this work in American Anthropologist, Ethnos, History and Anthropology and The Irish Journal of Anthropology. Fiona is co-author of Integration in Ireland: The Everyday Lives of African Migrants (Manchester University Press, 2012).
Summary
This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes ‘crisis’, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing, and identity.
