Benjamin Nienass
Biographic Data
| ID | 8747157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Nienass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nienass |
| SIGNATURE | NIENASS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Marcos |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public grief and political transformation: La 72 Hogar-Refugio para Personas Migrantes
Expressions of public grief have been ever more present in the context of growing numbers of migrant deaths acros many border regions. However, the political and transformative potential of collective acts of mourning or commemoration has been increasingly put into question. Instead of posing a tangible challenge to border policy, grief has often been co-opted or actively employed by state actors precisely to work against transformation of existi…
The Struggle for Memory and Justice in Mexico
The debate about public memory has intensified in Mexico in a time of widespread violence and human rights abuses, particularly in the context of the guerra contra el narco (war against drug cartels) that began in 2006. Confronting government narratives that criminalize victims of enforced disappearance and criminal violence, and the state’s failure to bring the perpetrators to justice, families of victims and other activists have led a struggle …
Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time
The widespread violence in Mexico by state and nonstate actors since the government launched a military strategy against drug cartels in 2006 has generated demands for justice, including spaces of mourning and commemoration that recognize hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries who have been killed or disappeared. Creating memorial spaces for ongoing forms of violence whose perpetrators and victims are hard to…
The politics of haunting and memory in international relations
Authority without Foundations: Arendt and the Paradox of Postwar German Memory Politics
Hannah Arendt argued that the American Revolution revealed for the first time that all regimes require a reference to an absolute, while the French Revolution revealed that not all absolutes are equal. The American Revolution took as its absolute the act of founding itself, upon which the authority of the constitution could be grounded. By contrast, the failure of the French Revolution to establish an authority stemmed from its reference to the t…
Invisible Victims: Undocumented Migrants and the Aftermath of September 11
This article examines the processes of investigation and gathering evidence about victims of the September 11 attacks to better understand the inability of state and nonstate institutions to effectively deal with the invisibility of undocumented migrants in terms of providing assistance and recognition at a moment of tragedy. The failure to make the invisible visible or to address the very question of visibility publicly is explained by three maj…
Performing the Global
Jan Nederveen Pieterse's (hereafter JNP) attempt to sketch an intellectual profile of global studies is a welcome and successful effort to offer an explicit and contained programmatic statement abo
Screen Memory
Postnational Relations to the Past: A “European Ethics of Memory”
The limits of memory
Additional references common to Memory Studies can be found at the end of this dossier in the selected bibliography, pp.197–202
Invisible Victims: Undocumented Migrants and the Aftermath of September 11
This article examines the processes of investigation and gathering evidence about victims of the September 11 attacks to better understand the inability of state and nonstate institutions to effectively deal with the invisibility of undocumented migrants in terms of providing assistance and recognition at a moment of tragedy. The failure to make the invisible visible or to address the very question of visibility publicly is explained by three maj…
Screen Memory
The limits of memory
Additional references common to Memory Studies can be found at the end of this dossier in the selected bibliography, pp.197–202
Postnational Relations to the Past: A “European Ethics of Memory”
Authority without Foundations: Arendt and the Paradox of Postwar German Memory Politics
Hannah Arendt argued that the American Revolution revealed for the first time that all regimes require a reference to an absolute, while the French Revolution revealed that not all absolutes are equal. The American Revolution took as its absolute the act of founding itself, upon which the authority of the constitution could be grounded. By contrast, the failure of the French Revolution to establish an authority stemmed from its reference to the t…
Performing the Global
Jan Nederveen Pieterse's (hereafter JNP) attempt to sketch an intellectual profile of global studies is a welcome and successful effort to offer an explicit and contained programmatic statement abo
The limits of memory
Additional references common to Memory Studies can be found at the end of this dossier in the selected bibliography, pp.197–202
Performing the Global
Jan Nederveen Pieterse's (hereafter JNP) attempt to sketch an intellectual profile of global studies is a welcome and successful effort to offer an explicit and contained programmatic statement abo
Screen Memory
Postnational Relations to the Past: A “European Ethics of Memory”
Authority without Foundations: Arendt and the Paradox of Postwar German Memory Politics
Hannah Arendt argued that the American Revolution revealed for the first time that all regimes require a reference to an absolute, while the French Revolution revealed that not all absolutes are equal. The American Revolution took as its absolute the act of founding itself, upon which the authority of the constitution could be grounded. By contrast, the failure of the French Revolution to establish an authority stemmed from its reference to the t…
Invisible Victims: Undocumented Migrants and the Aftermath of September 11
This article examines the processes of investigation and gathering evidence about victims of the September 11 attacks to better understand the inability of state and nonstate institutions to effectively deal with the invisibility of undocumented migrants in terms of providing assistance and recognition at a moment of tragedy. The failure to make the invisible visible or to address the very question of visibility publicly is explained by three maj…
The politics of haunting and memory in international relations
Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time
The widespread violence in Mexico by state and nonstate actors since the government launched a military strategy against drug cartels in 2006 has generated demands for justice, including spaces of mourning and commemoration that recognize hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries who have been killed or disappeared. Creating memorial spaces for ongoing forms of violence whose perpetrators and victims are hard to…
The Struggle for Memory and Justice in Mexico
The debate about public memory has intensified in Mexico in a time of widespread violence and human rights abuses, particularly in the context of the guerra contra el narco (war against drug cartels) that began in 2006. Confronting government narratives that criminalize victims of enforced disappearance and criminal violence, and the state’s failure to bring the perpetrators to justice, families of victims and other activists have led a struggle …
Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
Public grief and political transformation: La 72 Hogar-Refugio para Personas Migrantes
Expressions of public grief have been ever more present in the context of growing numbers of migrant deaths acros many border regions. However, the political and transformative potential of collective acts of mourning or commemoration has been increasingly put into question. Instead of posing a tangible challenge to border policy, grief has often been co-opted or actively employed by state actors precisely to work against transformation of existi…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)