Promises Beyond Memory (Paperback)

Vikki Bell

ISBN 10: 1478032960 / ISBN 13: 9781478032960

Editore: Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2026

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Paperback. In Promises Beyond Memory, Vikki Bell shows how archives of contemporary political violence in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia challenge the idea that simply sheltering the documentation of violence is sufficient to fulfill the obligations of attending to the past. Beyond mere preservation, these archives, museums, and sites of memory invite exploratory modes of enlivening the past through aesthetic practices like photography, installation, film, and performance. These practices foster the survivance of memory where populations still grapple with legacies of violence and often state-sponsored mass disappearance and torture. Rather than produce a definitive account of the past, such survivance facilitates polyvocal articulations that open deeply political and ethical questions around contested histories. They may even create moments for what Bell terms tender forgetting the ability to remember without reawakening trauma. Integrating theory, extensive archival work, and interviews with artists, archivists, museum workers, and survivors of state violence, Bell analyses the creative ways that archives pass on stories of violence as they seek to defend against attempts to rewrite the past. Vikki Bell examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Promises Beyond Memory (Paperback)
• Editore: Duke University Press, North Carolina
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1478032960
• ISBN 13: 9781478032960
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

In Promises Beyond Memory, Vikki Bell shows how archives of contemporary political violence in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia challenge the idea that simply sheltering the documentation of violence is sufficient to fulfill the obligations of attending to the past. Beyond mere preservation, these archives, museums, and sites of memory invite exploratory modes of enlivening the past through aesthetic practices like photography, installation, film, and performance. These practices foster the “survivance” of memory where populations still grapple with legacies of violence and often state-sponsored mass disappearance and torture. Rather than produce a definitive account of the past, such survivance facilitates polyvocal articulations that open deeply political and ethical questions around contested histories. They may even create moments for what Bell terms “tender forgetting” –– the ability to remember without reawakening trauma. Integrating theory, extensive archival work, and interviews with artists, archivists, museum workers, and survivors of state violence, Bell analyses the creative ways that archives pass on stories of violence as they seek to defend against attempts to rewrite the past.

Informazioni sull?autore

Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina.