1st Edition

Archiving Loss Holding Places for Difficult Memories

By Martine Hawkes Copyright 2018
    154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories asks how we might cut and walk a path for memory, loss, and silence in the archive. The difficult events discussed in this book include state responses to refugees, events of genocide, alongside other less documented pockets of trauma, violence, and loss. This book describes the archives whose language and logic have shaped our ways we remember and respond to difficult events and the ways in which we expect memory and loss to be coherent, credible, and lead to clear conclusions. In asking what is missing and what is found in the archives of difficult events this book argues for the necessity of looking more closely at other ways of remembering loss and archiving memory.

    Introduction: Pouring Memory

    Part I: The Archive

    Chapter 1: Power in the Archives

    Chapter 2: Expectations in the Archive

    Chapter 3: Archives and Difficult Events

    Part II: Archive Fever

    Chapter 4: Counting to Discount

    Chapter 5: The Language and Logic of the Archive

    Part III: Remembering in the Archive

    Chapter 6: Archival Filters

    Chapter 7: The Archive as a Gate Opener

    Chapter 8: Loss and the Archive

    References

    Index

    Biography

    Martine Louise Hawkes, PhD, is a researcher based at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Her research interests centre on the landscapes and places of memory and social and personal constructions of memory after loss.