Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.

Autorentext
Meltem Ah?ska, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Pilar Calveiro Garrido, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico Pamela Colombo, EHESS-IRIS, France Zuzanna Dziuban University of Konstanz, Germany Francisco Ferrándiz, Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, Spain Gabriel Gatti, University of the Basque Country, Spain David Harvey, City University of New York (CUNY), USA Kirsten Mahlke, University of Konstanz, Germany Silvana Mandolessi, University of Konstanz, Germany Juan Mayorga, Playwright and Philosopher, Spain Mariana Eva Perez, University of Konstanz, Germany Gudrun Rath, University of Konstanz, Germany Estela Schindel, University of Konstanz, Germany Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens, Greece James Tyner, Kent University, USA Jay M. Winter, Yale University, USA

Inhalt
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction: The Multi-Layered Memories of Space; Pamela Colombo and Estela Schindel PART I: SPATIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ANNIHILATION 1. Violent Erasures and Erasing Violence: Contesting Cambodia's Landscapes of Violence; James A. Tyner 2. Polish landscapes of Memory at the Sites of Extermination: The Politics of Framing; Zuzanna Dziuban 3. Spaces of Confrontation and Defeat: the Spatial Dispossession of the Revolution in Tucuman, Argentina; Pamela Colombo 4. Subterranean Autopsies: Exhumations of Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain; Francisco Ferrandiz PART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE: SPATIAL STRATEGIES 5. Faces, Voices, and the Shadow of Catastrophe; Jay Winter 6. Theatrical Cartography of a Space of Exception; Juan Mayorga 7. The Cartographer. Warsaw, 1:400.000 By Juan Mayorga. In its first English translation by Sarah Maitland 8. 'All Limits Were Exceeded Over There': The Chronotope of Terror in Modern Warfare and Testimony; Kirsten Mahlke 9. The Concentration Camp and the 'Unhomely Home': The Disappearance of Children in Post-Dicatorship Argentine Theatre; Mariana Eva Perez PART III: HAUNTED SPACES, IRRUPTING MEMORIES 10. 'The Whole Country is a Monument': Framing Places of Terror in Postwar Germany; Aleida Assmann 11. Haunted Houses, Horror Literature and the Space of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Literature; Silvana Mandolessi 12. Counter-Movement, Space, and Politics: How the Saturday Mothers of Turkey make theEnforced Disappearances Visible; Meltem Ah?ska 13. An Orderly Landscape of Remnants: Notes for Reflecting on the Spatiality of the Disappeared; Gabriel Gatti 14. A Boundless Grave: Memory and Abjection of the Rio de la Plata; Estela Schindel PART IV: SPACES OF EXCEPTION, POWER AND RESISTANCE 15. Spatialities of Exception; Pilar Calveiro 16. Imaginary Cities, Violence and Memory: A Literary Mapping; Gudrun Rath 17. Occupied Squares and the Urban 'State of Exception': In, Against and Beyond the City of Enclaves; Stavros Stavrides 18. 'Memory, that Powerful Political Force': An Interview with David Harvey