Ordering chaos
The process of remembering mass murder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15082737 |
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| Authors | Donald Joralemon (Smith College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-191 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mortality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-6275 • E-ISSN: 1469-9885 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13576275.2015.1008443 |
| OpenAlex | W2091657016 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The history of public memorials to the collective loss of life related to acts of terrorism is characterised by passionate debate and intense disagreements over what and how to remember. A comparative analysis of the way these memory sites have been created in the United States reveals much about the meaning of the dead and the purpose of remembering. The cases under consideration are the memorials to: the massacres of Native Americans at Wounded Knee, South Dakota on 29 December 1890 and at Sand Creek, Colorado on 29 November 1864, the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing on 19 April 1995 and the attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001. Of particular interest is an evolving set of ‘best practices’ – with intended global application – that aim to regularise the way memorials are designed and built so as to diffuse public conflict. The emerging blueprint for managing the contentious quality of memorials attempts to balance individual suffering with redemptive symbolism and an educational message for a future public. Part and parcel of an American commitment to disaster planning, this effort to smooth the process of remembering and mitigate the impact of grief by bureaucratic management will inevitably fail
CHAOS (operating system · Computer security · Criminology · Process (computing · Sociology · Computer Science · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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