Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice
Milieus of ReMemory concentrates on how people in Lebanon situate and work on memories of violence and trauma, as well as exchanges of voice. Developing a critical phenomenology of social material practices, a relational notion of community and subjectivity outlines thematic discussions of intergenerational memory, gender, temporality, and transactions between personal and public memory. While emphasizing conduits and channels by which material and imaginary resources circulate as differential circuits of power and authority, the book focuses on how memory activism and memory projects constitute emergent milieus of social exchange and ethical responsibility to self and circumstance, to both publics and political cultures.
Norman Saadi Nikro is a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. He studied critical theory and cultural studies in Sydney, and completed his doctoral studies in 1998. From 2001 to 2007, he was Assistant Professor in the Humanities Faculty at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. He teaches in the Department of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Potsdam University, Germany, where he gained his Habilitation degree in 2013. At Leibniz-ZMO, he is a member of the Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge research group, and is undertaking research for a book on the biographical impulses in the work of Edward Said. He is the author of The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon (2012).
“Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice is an original and innovative text which adopts a phenomenological approach to the study of violence and memory. Distancing his research from conventional social science narratives about violence, Nikro nevertheless confronts the major issues of sociality, reconciliation, identity, justice, and existential crisis in post-civil war Lebanon. Beyond the emphasis on state transitional justice projects, Milieus of ReMemory points towards a much more inclusive understanding of the social processes underlying reconciliation in post conflict societies.”
Professor Michael Humphrey
Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney; author of The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: From Terror to Trauma
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