Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation

Olivette  Otele; Luisa Gandolfo; Yoav Galai

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-54887-2_1

Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation

Olivette Otele^* (Corresponding Author), Luisa Gandolfo, Yoav Galai

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Sociology

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In his poem, B-Movie (1981), Gil Scott-Heron reflected on the election of Ronald Reagan. He wrote, ‘this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can. Even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards’ (ibid.). Reagan ran under the slogan ‘Let’s make America great again’, which was later revived by Donald Trump, albeit truncated into the shorter ‘MAGA’. As we are increasingly seeing, ‘they’ are still waiting for a greater future to be imported from the imagined past, and not only in America. When Reagan was elected, it was a time of crisis, with stagflation running amok and a sitting president that wavered in the face of a hostage crisis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Post-Conflict Memorialization
Subtitle of host publication	Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies
Editors	O Otele , L Gandolfo, Y Galai
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	1
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-54887-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-54886-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54887-2_1
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Name	Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

Keywords

memorialization
TRAUMA
conflict
sociology
politics
remembrance
memory

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Introduction: Absence and Trauma in Post-Conflict Memorialisation. / Otele, Olivette (Corresponding Author); Gandolfo, Luisa; Galai, Yoav.
Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies. ed. / O Otele ; L Gandolfo; Y Galai. 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 1-13 (Memory Politics and Transitional Justice).

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