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As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to
memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of
culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between
formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments
and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization:
Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of
mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a
period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on
ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary,
Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization
and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced
trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual
acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume
will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory
studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies
As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to
memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of
culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between
formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments
and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization:
Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of
mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a
period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on
ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary,
Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization
and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced
trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual
acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume
will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory
studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies
60 per cent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin,a statistic
which has propelled Jordan into the role of both player and pawn in
regional issues such as the birth of the state of Israel,the
prolonged Israel-Palestine conflict, the ascent and decline of Arab
nationalism and the subsequent rise of political Islam and
radicalism. Exploring Jordan's diverse Palestinian communities,
Luisa Gandolfo illustrates how the Palestinian majority has been
subject to discrimination,all the while also playing a defining
role in shaping Jordanian politics,legal frameworks and national
identity. The conflicts of 1948 and 1967,the civil unrest following
Black September in 1972 and the uprisings of 1988 and 2000 have all
contributed to a fractious Jordanian-Palestinian relationship. In
Palestinians in Jordan,Gandolfo examines the history of this
relationship,looking at the socio-political circumstances,the
economic and domestic policies,the legal status of Palestinians in
Jordan and the security dimension of Jordan's role in the region.
She argues that policies put in place over the last century have
created a society that is marked by high levels of inter-faith
cohesion,as evidenced by the success and integration of minority
Christian communities. She goes on to suggest that society divides
along lines of ethnic and nationalist loyalty,between Jordanians
and Palestinians,while domestic politics become increasingly
fractious with the growth of Islamist groups that have gained
grassroots appeal,especially in the refugee camps. Palestinians in
Jordan looks through the kaleidoscope of Palestinian-Jordanian
identities that accommodate a complex and overlapping web of
different religious affiliations, mixed socio-economic conditions
and the experience of exile reconciled with daily life in Jordan.
At the same time,identities of these communities continue to be
rooted in an attachment to the concept of Palestine,and the
unifying force of the struggle against Zionism. These layers have
made the versatile and fluid nature of identities
essential,affording a fascinating study in inter-communal dynamics
and nationalism. It is this which makes Palestinians in Jordan an
important resource for those researching the Israel-Palestine
conflict as well as for students of the Middle
East,Politics,Anthropology and Gender with an interest in identity.
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