Building monuments,unleashing anger: The material disruption of contested memoryscapes |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Science, King Saud University, P. O. Box – 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;2. King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology (KAIN), King Saud University, Riyadh, saudi Arabia.;3. Center of Excellence for Research in Engineering Materials (CEREM), Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI), King Saud University, P.O. Box-800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia;4. Electrochemistry and Corrosion Laboratory, Department of Physical Chemistry, National Research Centre (NRC), Dokki, 12622, Cairo, Egypt;5. Mechanical Design and Materials Department, Faculty of Energy Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan 81521, Egypt;1. Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), 11727, Cairo, Egypt.;2. Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 12613, Giza, Egypt.;1. School of Civil and Environment Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing 100083;;2. State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R.CHINA. |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the post-war memoryscapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina via (defaced and destroyed) monuments evidencing the habitual struggle to disrupt and reorder space, and reinterpret the traumatic past. Analysing a combination of digital and fieldwork data, I make a case for interpreting attacks on monuments as a civilian retaliatory agency, exerting spatial hegemony and substantiating resentful affective regimes (especially in relation to the most recently imposed legal ban on the denial of genocide in Srebrenica). In doing so, I consider how citizens’ “truths” are enacted by distorting loss and violence, while collective trauma persists. This paper further illustrates how peculiar remembrance practices modify the standard purpose and meanings of a monument, contextualizing monuments within a larger framework of post-conflict spaces. |
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| Keywords: | Memoryscapes Monuments Material trace Affective practices Social semiotics |
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