Memorializing Violence

Preface
Introduction: A Transnational Feminist Approach to Memorialization
Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Chapter 1: Tracing Absent Presence
Malathi de Alwis

Part I: The Colonial, Imperial Logics of Memorializing
Chapter 2: Law's Racial Memory
Carmela Murdocca
Chapter 3: Toward a Queer Diasporic Remembrance of Air India Flight 182: Memorializing Transnational Flows of Loss and Desire
Amber Dean

Part II: Inhabiting Loss, Exceeding the Frame
Chapter 4: "I Am Here for Justice and I Am Here for Change": Reflections on Anticolonial Remembering within the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Karine Duhamel
Chapter 5: Transnational Contestations: Remembering Sexual Violence in Postgenocide Guatemala
Alison Crosby, Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj, and Maria de los Angeles Aguilar
Chapter 6: Poetics and Politics of Sound Memory and Social Repair in the Afterlives of Mass Violence: The Cantadoras of the Atrato River of Colombia
Pilar Riano-Alcala

Part III: Invoking Revolutionary Present Pasts
Chapter 7: Figures of Dissent: Women's Memoirs of Defiance
Shahrzad Mojab
Chapter 8: Filming Disappearance: An Account of a Visual Battle
Chowra Makaremi
Chapter 9: Dialita Choir: Women Survivors Reclaiming History in Indonesia
Ayu Ratih

Part IV: Care in/as Collective Mourning
Chapter 10: Ceremonies of Mourning, Remembrance, and Care in the Context of Violence: A Conversation about Performing Song for the Beloved
Honor Ford-Smith and Juanita Stephen

Chapter 11: Maternal Activism and the Politics of Memorialization in the Mothers of the Movement: A Black Feminist Reading
Erica S. Lawson and Ola Osman
Chapter 12: The Embroidering for Peace Initiative: Crafting Feminist Politics and Memorializing Resistance to the "War on Drugs" in Mexico
Cordelia Rizzo
Chapter 13: Epigraph 24584 In Which She Talks to the Dead and Sometimes the Dead Talk Back + artist's statement, The Dead Talk Back
Charlotte Henay

Part V: On Worlding
Chapter 14: Dreams to Remember: A Conversation on Unsilencing the Archive: An Afronautic Approach
Camille Turner, Mila Mendez, and Heather Evans
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Preface xi
Introduction: A Transnational Feminist Approach to Memorialization 1
ALISON CROSBY AND HEATHER EVANS
1 Tracing Absent Presence 17
MALATHI DE ALWIS
Part I The Colonial, Imperial Logics of Memorializing
2 Law's Racial Memory 29
CARMELA MURDOCCA
3 Toward a Queer Diasporic Remembrance of Air India Flight 182: Memorializing Transnational Flows of Loss and Desire 43
AMBER DEAN
Part II Inhabiting Loss, Exceeding the Frame
4 "I Am Here for Justice and I Am Here for Change": Reflections on Anticolonial Remembering within the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada 59
KARINE DUHAMEL
5 Transnational Contestations: Remembering Sexual Violence in Postgenocide Guatemala 72
ALISON CROSBY, IRMA ALICIA VELASQUEZ NIMATUJ, AND MARIA DE LOS ANGELES AGUILAR
6 Poetics and Politics of Sound Memory and Social Repair in the Afterlives of Mass Violence: The Cantadoras of the Atrato River of Colombia 87
PILAR RIANO- ALCALA
Part III Invoking Revolutionary Present Pasts
7 Figures of Dissent: Women's Memoirs of Defiance 105
SHAHRZAD MOJAB
8 Filming Disappearance: An Account of a Visual Battle 119
CHOWRA MAKAREMI
9 Dialita Choir: Women Survivors Reclaiming History in Indonesia 130
AYU RATIH
Part IV Care in/as Collective Mourning
10 Ceremonies of Mourning, Remembrance, and Care in the Context of Violence: A Conversation about Performing Song for the Beloved 147
HONOR FORD-SMITH AND JUANITA STEPHEN
11 Maternal Activism and the Politics of Memorialization in the Mothers of the Movement: A Black Feminist Reading 160
ERICA S. LAWSON AND OLA OSMAN
12 The Embroidering for Peace Initiative: Crafting Feminist Politics and Memorializing Resistance to the "War on Drugs" in Mexico 173
CORDELIA RIZZO
13 Epigraph 24584: In Which She Talks to the Dead and Sometimes the Dead Talk Back 187
CHARLOTTE HENAY
14 Dreams to Remember: A Conversation on Unsilencing the Archive: An Afronautic Approach 209
CAMILLE TURNER, MIL A MENDEZ, AND HEATHER EVANS
Acknowledgments 219
References 221
Notes on Contributors 243
Index 000