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Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.
List of contents
Introduction: "The Abuse Lives in our Blood"
1. Resonant Violence: The Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath
2. Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin
3. Filling the Absence: Embodied Engagements with Former Sites of Atrocity
4. Embodied Justice: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
5. Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
6. Conclusion: Out of the Desert
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
KERRY WHIGHAM is an assistant professor of genocide and mass atrocity prevention at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University in New York. He is also the director of research and online education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. For more information, visit www.kerrywhigham.com.
