Theorizing Otherwise

Sites of Conscience and Gendered Violence

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ID12497293
AuthorsMaria Tumarkin (0000-0002-1952-8644, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume25
Issue2
Pages331-340
Publication date2022-03-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSpace and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1206-3312 • E-ISSN: 1552-8308
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/12063312211065561
OpenAlexW4221056941
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

This article starts with the idea that a site of conscience is uniquely capable of keeping alive in the public imagination—as an open wound and as a call to action—the devastating persistence of gendered violence. It doesn’t seek to offer an account of how such a site might come to be imagined, let alone come into being. Instead, its focus is on the conceptual work required to make space for this kind of imagining. I argue that it is important to make and maintain a distinction between a site of memory and a site of conscience and that the category of time needs to be denaturalized and reconsidered in our conceptualization of the cultural work performed by sites of conscience

Action (physics · Conceptualization · Conscience · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

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