Benjamin Niena
Biographic Data
| ID | 98168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Niena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Niena |
| SIGNATURE | NIENA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Marcos |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6708-3320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
Bringing the Dead Back into Society: An Interview with Mercedes Doretti
The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF) was one of the world’s first professional war crimes exhumation groups to produce evidence against governments and military personnel involved in human rights violations. In 2009, cofounder Mercedes Doretti expanded the EAAF’s work by establishing the Border Project in response to the large number of cases of disappeared migrants along the migrant trail from…
Deaths, Visibility, and Responsibility: The Politics of Mourning at the US-Mexico Border
Between 200 and 500 people have died every year along the United States-Mexico border since the late-1990s. The void of responsibility for migrant deaths is exemplified by the lack of care for and visibility of these bodies during the processes of recovery, identification, and burial. Many of the bodies, mostly those unidentified, are buried in cemeteries, potter’s fields, or even private ranches near the United States-Mexico border, often far re…
Introduction: Borders and the Politics of Mourning
The rise in the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe is the latest in a series of “crises” related to the movement of people that have captured the world’s attention. In the past two decades, hundreds of people have died every year in their attempts to cross borders, from the US-Mexico border, to the Mediterranean and beyond. This introduction proposes to look at the political force of public grief in the context of these border dea…
Memory | Materiality | Sensuality
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…
History, memory and migration: Perceptions of the past and the politics of incorporation. Edited by Irial Glynn and J. Olaf Kleist. * Memory and migration: Multidisciplinary approaches to memory studi…
‘We are dead people. Without geography, there is nothing left.’1 Scholars of memory have traditionally relied on their geographic imaginations in their attempts to illuminate the content and effects of both individual and collective memories. This tendency makes sense if we remind ourselves of the intimate relationship of place and memory in the numerous practices that try to locate the past in material and spatial traces: we visit memorials, loo…
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…
Deaths, Visibility, and Responsibility: The Politics of Mourning at the US-Mexico Border
Between 200 and 500 people have died every year along the United States-Mexico border since the late-1990s. The void of responsibility for migrant deaths is exemplified by the lack of care for and visibility of these bodies during the processes of recovery, identification, and burial. Many of the bodies, mostly those unidentified, are buried in cemeteries, potter’s fields, or even private ranches near the United States-Mexico border, often far re…
Memory | Materiality | Sensuality
Screen Memory
Introduction: Borders and the Politics of Mourning
The rise in the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe is the latest in a series of “crises” related to the movement of people that have captured the world’s attention. In the past two decades, hundreds of people have died every year in their attempts to cross borders, from the US-Mexico border, to the Mediterranean and beyond. This introduction proposes to look at the political force of public grief in the context of these border dea…
Bringing the Dead Back into Society: An Interview with Mercedes Doretti
The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF) was one of the world’s first professional war crimes exhumation groups to produce evidence against governments and military personnel involved in human rights violations. In 2009, cofounder Mercedes Doretti expanded the EAAF’s work by establishing the Border Project in response to the large number of cases of disappeared migrants along the migrant trail from…
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
History, memory and migration: Perceptions of the past and the politics of incorporation. Edited by Irial Glynn and J. Olaf Kleist. * Memory and migration: Multidisciplinary approaches to memory studi…
‘We are dead people. Without geography, there is nothing left.’1 Scholars of memory have traditionally relied on their geographic imaginations in their attempts to illuminate the content and effects of both individual and collective memories. This tendency makes sense if we remind ourselves of the intimate relationship of place and memory in the numerous practices that try to locate the past in material and spatial traces: we visit memorials, loo…
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…
Memory | Materiality | Sensuality
The politics of haunting and memory in international relations
Bringing the Dead Back into Society: An Interview with Mercedes Doretti
The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF) was one of the world’s first professional war crimes exhumation groups to produce evidence against governments and military personnel involved in human rights violations. In 2009, cofounder Mercedes Doretti expanded the EAAF’s work by establishing the Border Project in response to the large number of cases of disappeared migrants along the migrant trail from…
Deaths, Visibility, and Responsibility: The Politics of Mourning at the US-Mexico Border
Between 200 and 500 people have died every year along the United States-Mexico border since the late-1990s. The void of responsibility for migrant deaths is exemplified by the lack of care for and visibility of these bodies during the processes of recovery, identification, and burial. Many of the bodies, mostly those unidentified, are buried in cemeteries, potter’s fields, or even private ranches near the United States-Mexico border, often far re…
Introduction: Borders and the Politics of Mourning
The rise in the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe is the latest in a series of “crises” related to the movement of people that have captured the world’s attention. In the past two decades, hundreds of people have died every year in their attempts to cross borders, from the US-Mexico border, to the Mediterranean and beyond. This introduction proposes to look at the political force of public grief in the context of these border dea…
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 (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)