The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations

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Autorentext

Jessica Auchter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Klappentext

International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. This book explores the relationship between practices of statecraft at multiple levels and decisions surrounding memorialization.

Inhalt

1. Ghostly Politics: An Introduction, 2. `We re All of Us Haunting and Haunted , 3. Border Monuments: Memory, Counter-Memory, and (b)Ordering practices along the US-Mexico Border, 4. Bones in a Brown Bag: Haunting and the Place of the Body in Rwandan Genocide Memorialization, 5. Vanishing Monuments: Absence and 9/11 Memorialization, 6. Conclusions: After Ghostly Politics