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Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow: The Anthropology of History

Autor Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2024
What stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a single name is added to an endless list. What do acts of accumulation of names of the dead affirm when they are concretised in monuments and performance events? The key premise is that multimodal inscriptions of names of the dead entail a political, aesthetic and conceptual movement between singularity and multitude that honours each dead name yet conveys the scale of a mass atrocity without reducing it to a number. Drawing on anthropology, history, philosophy, and aesthetic theory, the book yields a new perspective on the politics of archival and historical justice while it critically engages with the debates on relations and distinctions between names and numbers of the dead, monumental art and its political effects, law and history, image and text, the specific one and the infinite many.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367701901
ISBN-10: 0367701901
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: 44
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Anthropology of History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic

Cuprins

Introduction: Name and Number of the Dead; 1 Everyall of the Kommunarka Mass Graves; 2 The Judgment Day of History; 3 A Faceless Name; 4 The Mass of a Mass Atrocity; 5 On Infinite Return of Names of the Dead at the Solovetsky Stone; Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Archive

Notă biografică

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Recenzii

Monumental Names is a deeply thoughtful ethnography of the activist organisations Memorial and Last Address in Moscow. … [It] is a complex book, deeply engaging with philosophy, which makes it a laborious read for students not familiar with such literature. But conversely it is full of interesting ideas for memory scholars.” – Roger Sansi in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

Descriere

The book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a single name is added to an endless list.