Memory on My Doorstep
Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris 2015-2016
Published on 13. March 2019
252 pages
978-94-6166-279-8 (ISBN)
Description
In-depth case study of memorialisation processes after the November 2015 Paris attacks
On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape.
Sarah Gensburger, a sociologist working on social memory and its localisation, lives with her family on the Boulevard Voltaire and has been studying the city of Paris as her primary field site for several years. This time, memorialisation was taking place on her doorstep. Both a diary and an academic work, this book is a chronicle of this grassroots memorialisation process and an in-depth analysis of the way it has been embedded in the everyday lives of the author, neighbours, other Parisians and tourists.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape.
Sarah Gensburger, a sociologist working on social memory and its localisation, lives with her family on the Boulevard Voltaire and has been studying the city of Paris as her primary field site for several years. This time, memorialisation was taking place on her doorstep. Both a diary and an academic work, this book is a chronicle of this grassroots memorialisation process and an in-depth analysis of the way it has been embedded in the everyday lives of the author, neighbours, other Parisians and tourists.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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Content
Introduction
Between Research and Everyday Life: Photography, Family and Ordinary Conversations
26 Paris, 11th arrondissement, Boulevard Voltaire
December 27, 2015 - September 20, 2016
Event(s)
December 27, 2015
Distance
December 28, 2015
Traces
December 30, 2015
Trace
December 31, 2015
Disappearance
January 1, 2016
Appearance
January 4, 2016
Plaques
January 5, 2016
Gazes
January 6, 2016
Interpretation
January 8, 2016
Photography
January 9, 2016
Reflections
January 10, 2016
Messages
January 11, 2016
Detour
January 12, 2016
Solidarity
January 14, 2016
Tourism
January 15, 2016
Nationality
January 17, 2016
Nation
January 18, 2016
Normality
January 21, 2016
Data
January 26, 2016
Pilgrimage
February 2, 2016
Property
February 6, 2016
Invisibility
February 8, 2016
Witnesses
February 13, 2016
Collecting Messages
February 16, 2016
Groups
February 24, 2016
Holidays
February 28, 2016
Neighbors
March 1, 2016
Journalists
March 7, 2016
Demonstration
March 10, 2016
Conflict
March 17, 2016
Mobilizations
March 21, 2016
Normalization
March 26, 2016
A Place to Sit
April 8, 2016
Reading
April 13, 2016
Memories
April 18, 2016
Place
April 23, 2016
Meaning
May 1, 2016
Seeing and Being Seen
May 13, 2016
Privatization
May 19, 2016
Shift
May 20, 2016
Banner
May 22, 2016
Sacred
May 24, 2016
Trauma
June 13, 2016
Color
June 14, 2016
Icons
June 18, 2016
Preaching
June 18, 2016
Reconquest
June 19, 2016
Flags
June 27, 2016
Empty
July 1, 2016
Date
July 16, 2016
Silence
July 24, 2016
Ephemeral
August 1, 2016
T-Shirts
August 12, 2016
Cycle
September 1, 2016
Heritage
September 20, 2016
Conclusion
An Unfinished Memorialization: Archives, Monuments and Museums
Acknowledgement
References
Between Research and Everyday Life: Photography, Family and Ordinary Conversations
26 Paris, 11th arrondissement, Boulevard Voltaire
December 27, 2015 - September 20, 2016
Event(s)
December 27, 2015
Distance
December 28, 2015
Traces
December 30, 2015
Trace
December 31, 2015
Disappearance
January 1, 2016
Appearance
January 4, 2016
Plaques
January 5, 2016
Gazes
January 6, 2016
Interpretation
January 8, 2016
Photography
January 9, 2016
Reflections
January 10, 2016
Messages
January 11, 2016
Detour
January 12, 2016
Solidarity
January 14, 2016
Tourism
January 15, 2016
Nationality
January 17, 2016
Nation
January 18, 2016
Normality
January 21, 2016
Data
January 26, 2016
Pilgrimage
February 2, 2016
Property
February 6, 2016
Invisibility
February 8, 2016
Witnesses
February 13, 2016
Collecting Messages
February 16, 2016
Groups
February 24, 2016
Holidays
February 28, 2016
Neighbors
March 1, 2016
Journalists
March 7, 2016
Demonstration
March 10, 2016
Conflict
March 17, 2016
Mobilizations
March 21, 2016
Normalization
March 26, 2016
A Place to Sit
April 8, 2016
Reading
April 13, 2016
Memories
April 18, 2016
Place
April 23, 2016
Meaning
May 1, 2016
Seeing and Being Seen
May 13, 2016
Privatization
May 19, 2016
Shift
May 20, 2016
Banner
May 22, 2016
Sacred
May 24, 2016
Trauma
June 13, 2016
Color
June 14, 2016
Icons
June 18, 2016
Preaching
June 18, 2016
Reconquest
June 19, 2016
Flags
June 27, 2016
Empty
July 1, 2016
Date
July 16, 2016
Silence
July 24, 2016
Ephemeral
August 1, 2016
T-Shirts
August 12, 2016
Cycle
September 1, 2016
Heritage
September 20, 2016
Conclusion
An Unfinished Memorialization: Archives, Monuments and Museums
Acknowledgement
References
