February 11, 2025, Rutgers University Press

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Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. The volume uses a transnational feminist approach to ask, How do such efforts in seemingly unconnected remembrance landscapes speak to, with, and through each other in a world order inflected by colonial, imperial, and neoliberal logics, structures, and strictures? How do these memorializing initiatives not only formulate within but move through complex transnational flows and circuits, and what transpires as they do? What does it mean to inhabit loss, mourning, resistance, and refusal through memorialization at this moment, and what’s at stake in doing so? What might transnational feminist analyses of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nation have to offer in this regard?

The 14 contributions address the transnational dimensions of memorialization practices that are situated in or travel through Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Iran, Oman, the U.K., Jamaica, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, the U.S., and Canada.

Learn about volume contributors here.

See here for information about the Book Launch to be held at York University and online (hybrid) on April 3, 2025.