The politics of haunting and memory in international relations /

"International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's notion of hauntology to consider the politics o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Auchter, Jessica (Author)
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Series:	Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects:	International relations > Psychological aspects. Memorialization > Political aspects. Atrocities > Political aspects. Collective memory > Political aspects. Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Atrocities. Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Ghostly politics : an introduction
"We're all of us haunted and haunting"
bones in a brown bag : haunting and the place of the body in Rwandan genocide memorialisation
Border monuments : memory, counter-memory, and (b)ordering practices along the US-Mexico border
Vanishing monuments : absence and 9/11 memorialisation.