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This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book shows that current debates on this issue are shaped by multiple co-existing and intersecting memories of political violence in the past. Moreover, despite public declarations of unity and solidarity, collective memories of urban terror in contemporary Europe are far from consensual - memory can be both a catalyst for and an impediment to social and political change. Drawing on case studies from a range of European countries and creative responses by survivors, artists, and poets, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to key methods (e.g. discourse analysis and (auto-)ethnography) and concepts (e.g. Lieux de Mémoire and 'grassroots memorials') for the study of the memoralization of terror attacks.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Time.- Chapter 2: European Cities Facing Terrorism: from Social Responses to Memory, and vice versa - Gérôme Truc.- Chapter 3: 20 Years On: a walk through the memorialisation of the 11M attacks.- Chapter 4: Memory as 'temporal loop' in the War on Terror: Using the Past to Secure the Future (and failing).- Chapter 5: Barriers and Prevent Cakes.- Part II: Silences.- Chapter 6: The green tent forever.- Chapter 7: Contested memories and the (re)construction of violent pasts in the Basque Country: A critical examination of the Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria.- Chapter 8: Hanau/Main - Topography of Immigration, Taboo, and Terror, and Lieu de Mémoire.- Part III: Presence and Absenc3.- Chapter 9: Remembering and forgetting terror in Berlin.- Chapter 10: Making, Sharing and Extending Presence in Spontaneous Memorials. The Case of the 2017 Manchester Attack.- Chapter 11: Resilience or re-construction? A psychoanalytical approach to urbanspace after the attack on the Promenade des Anglais (Nice, 14.07.2016).- Chapter 12: Vertigo.- Part: IV. Victimhood and Trauma.- Chapter 13: Hands.- Chapter 14: Temporal conflicts and the victimhood communities (un)bound by memory.- Chapter 15: 'He must continue living through us': The Role of Living Memorials in Continuing Bonds with the Deceased in the Aftermath of Terrorist Violence in France (2015-2016).- Chapter 16: Transition of an ex-hostage: Trial of the 13th November 2015 attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis.- Part V: Literature and creative imagination.- Chapter 17: Inside the car.- Chapter 18: The Realm of Change.- Chapter 19: Terrorist trials under literary scrutiny: literature as counterterrorist response.- Chapter 20: Out in the Open.
