调解卢旺达种族灭绝纪念馆的“缺席”:照顾,记忆和接近死者

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Julia Viebach
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本文分析了1994年卢旺达图西族大屠杀后暴力、记忆、人格、地点和人类物质之间的联系。它探讨了种族灭绝纪念馆的“照料”实践——保存和照顾人类遗骸——以揭示种族灭绝幸存者如何通过与死去的亲人的遗骸一起工作来重塑他们的世界。我认为,“照顾”是一种重建自我的方式,也是保持与死者失去的关系的一种方式,这种关系仍然干扰着生者的日常生活。幸存者将他们的情绪、情绪和对不确定未来的困惑投射到遗骸上。照料使时间倒流,因为它使那些在种族灭绝期间“不幸死亡”的人重获尊严。我进一步认为,纪念碑是我所说的“地点边界接近”的载体,它使照顾者和他们死去的亲人之间的物质交流空间成为可能,为生者和死者提供最后的安息之地和“家”。遵循“受害者方法”,本文借鉴了自2011年以来在卢旺达进行的广泛实地调查。
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Mediating ‘absence-presence’ at Rwanda’s genocide memorials: of care-taking, memory and proximity to the dead
This paper analyses the connectivities between violence, memory, personhood, place and human substances after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It explores the practice of ‘care-taking’ at genocide memorials – the preservation and care of human remains – to reveal how survivors of the Genocide remake their worlds through working with the remnants of their dead loved ones. I argue that ‘care-taking’ is a way to rebuild selves and to retain lost relations to the dead that still interfere in the everyday lives of the living. Survivors project their emotions, sentiments and confusion about an uncertain future onto the remains. Care-taking re-verses time because it gives back dignity to those who died ‘bad deaths’ during the Genocide. I further argue that the memorials are a vehicle for what I coin ‘place-bound proximity’ that enables a material space of communication between care-takers and their dead loved ones, provides a last resting place and a ‘home’ for both the living and the dead. Following a ‘victim-approach’ this paper draws on extensive fieldwork conducted in Rwanda since 2011.
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Critical African Studies
Critical African Studies Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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