Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma (Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict)

This book engages the globally pressing question of how to live and work with the haunting power of the past in the aftermath of mass violence. It brings together a collection of interdisciplinary contributions to reflect on the haunting of post-conflict memory from the perspective of diverse country case studies including South Africa, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, North and South Korea, Palestine and Israel, America and Australia. Contributions offer theoretical, empirical and practical insights on the nature of historical trauma and practices of collective healing and repair that include embodied, artistic and culturally relevant forms of wisdom for dealing with the past. While this question has traditionally been explored through the lens of trauma studies in relation to the post-Holocaust experience, this book provides new understandings from a variety of different historical contexts and disciplinary perspectives. Its chapters draw on, challenge and expand the trauma concept to propose more contextually relevant frameworks for transforming haunted memory in the aftermath of historical trauma. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Introduction: Post-Conflict Hauntings (Kim Wale, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Jeffrey Prager)....Pages 1-25 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Remembering Forwards: Healing the Hauntings of the Past (John D. Brewer)....Pages 29-46 Ethics of Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation (Irit Keynan)....Pages 47-66 What Pandora Did: The Spectre of Reparation and Hope in an Irreparable World (Jaco Barnard-Naudé)....Pages 67-92 Do Black Lives Matter? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Racism and American Resistance to Reparations (Jeffrey Prager)....Pages 93-118 Aesthetics of Memory, Witness to Violence and a Call to Repair (Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela)....Pages 119-149 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Haunting and Transitional Justice: On Lives, Landscapes and Unresolved Pasts in Northern Ireland (Cheryl Lawther)....Pages 153-176 Listening for the Quiet Violence in the Unspoken (Marietjie Oelofsen)....Pages 177-202 Intergenerational Nostalgic Haunting and Critical Hope: Memories of Loss and Longing in Bonteheuwel (Kim Wale)....Pages 203-227 The Ghosts of Collective Violence: Pathways of Transmission Between Genocide-Survivor Mothers and Their Young Adult Children in Rwanda (Grace Kagoyire, Marianne Vysma, Annemiek Richters)....Pages 229-257 How Shall We Talk of Bhalagwe? Remembering the Gukurahundi Era in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (Shari Eppel)....Pages 259-284 Front Matter ....Pages 285-285 Symptom as History, Culture as Healing: Incarcerated Aboriginal Women’s Journeys Through Historic Trauma and Recovery Processes (Judy Atkinson)....Pages 287-314 Representing Collective Trauma of Korean War: Creative Education as a Peacebuilding Strategy (Borislava Manojlovic)....Pages 315-337 Monuments of Historical Trauma as Sites of Artistic Expression, Emotional Processing and Political Negotiation (Andrea Bieler)....Pages 339-366 Back Matter ....Pages 367-371