Taking the soldier home
Sustaining the domestic presence of absent fallen soldiers in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Osnat Shalev Nizri (University of Haifa), C A Kidron (0000-0002-5522-826X, University of Haifa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1232-1247 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17506980221094511 |
| OpenAlex | W4280599814 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 38 |
This study presents the lived memory work of Israeli bereaved parents who preserve the bedrooms of their children—fallen soldiers—intact after their deaths. Ethnographic semi-structured interviews and participant observation in the rooms point to an assemblage of interwoven practices that sustain the presence of the dead in the family lifeworld. Enactment of past habitual embodied movement, person-object interaction, and familial roles within the domestic architecture that housed the deceased sustain virtual presence. Removal from view of military objects signifying death, and modulated incorporation of new life in the room forestall cracks in virtuality of presence and temporal absencing, ushering the dead into familial futures. Reconceptualizing livedmemory as the manipulation of temporal stasis and continuity to (re)generate presence rather than represent/commemorate absence and loss, raises questions regarding the dialectical relations between lived memory and public commemoration and the salutary potential of continuing bonds with loved ones
Dialectic · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Grief · Lifeworld · Lived experience · Object (grammar · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Victory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Tense Past
The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society
How Societies Remember
Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance
Models and mirrors
The Anthropology of the Future
Survivor Family Memory Work at Sites of Holocaust Remembrance
Letting go and keeping hold
The presence of the dead
Dead Men Talking
Memory ecologies
The place of trauma
From Grief to Grievance
Victim/volunteer’
Continuing Conversation about Continuing Bonds
Solace and immortality
On telling the whole story
Imaginal Relationships with the Dead
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Journal of Material Culture
Phenomenology of Perception
Memory as a Cultural System
Everyday Spaces of Mental Distress
Routinergency
Between Memory and History
Emotional Remembering
Breaching the wall of traumatic silence
Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory
Performance and Narrative, Bodies and Movement in the Construction of Places and Objects, Spaces and Knowledges
The Status of the Object
Embracing the lived memory of genocide
Resurrecting Discontinued Bonds
Toward an Ethnography of Silence
Discursive Alliances and Clashes in Everyday Life
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |