Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe : Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence / Katharina Karcher.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction: Remembering Urban Terror in Europe—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memorialisation, Narratives, and the Politics of Memory -- Remembering Urban Terror in Europe -- Terrorism as a Threat to the European Project -- Memory, Art, Aesthetics: Representations of and Responses to Terror -- About the Book -- References -- Part I. Time -- 2. European Cities Facing Terrorism: From Social Responses to Memory, and Vice Versa -- Social Responses to Terrorist Attacks in European Cities: An Emblematic Case of ‘Immediate Memorialisation’ -- From Immediate to Long-Term Memorialisation: A Three-Level Social Process -- From (The Memorialisation of) an Attack to (The Social Response to) Another: A Never-Ending Process? -- References -- 3. 20 Years On. A Walk Through the Memorialisation of the 11M Attacks -- 11 March 2004, Madrid -- Initial Reactions: Grassroots Memorials -- Institutionalisation of Remembrance: Official Memorials -- The First Major Official Memorial: El Bosque del Recuerdo -- The Big Project: The Atocha Station Memorial -- After Nineteen Anniversaries: Anatomy of the Last Tribute to Date -- 20 Years On. Final Reflections on a Contested Memorialisation -- References -- 4. Memory as ‘Temporal Loop’ in the War on Terror: Using the Past to Secure the Future (and Failing) -- Memorials and Commemoration as a ‘Stage’ in Resilient Recovery -- The Linear and Quantum Worlds of Emergency Planners and Responders -- Conclusion -- Interviews -- References -- 5. Barriers and Prevent Cakes -- Part II. Silences -- 6. The Green Tent Forever -- 7. Contested Memories and the (Re)Construction of Violent Pasts in the Basque Country: A Critical Examination of the Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria-Gasteiz -- Introduction -- Just a Memorial Museum? -- Investigating Words, Silences, and the Researcher’s Presence -- Building a ‘Mnemonic Hegemony’: Dominant (Re)Constructions of the Past, Present, and Future -- The Museum -- The Terrorism vs. Democracy Framework -- Politics for the Present and the Future: Counter-Terrorism and a Whole-of-Society Counter-Extremism Approach -- Lessons from the Past: A Global Counter-Terrorism Approach -- Reading the Past/Future Through the (Counter)Radicalisation Discourse -- Conclusion: Alternative Memories and the Democratisation of the Past -- References -- 8. Hanau/Main: Topography of Immigration, Taboo, and Terror, and Lieu de Mémoire -- 19 February 2020: Right-Wing Terrorism Puts Hanau on the Map -- Hanau, Lieu de Mémoire? Whose Memories Are at Stake? -- Writings on the Wall -- Portraits on Murals—#SayTheirNames -- Hanau, the Grim(m) City -- Grim Sites in the Grimm City -- Hanau, Topography of Terror and Empowerment -- References -- Part III. Presence and Absence -- 9. Remembering and Forgetting Terror in Berlin -- 10. Making, Sharing and Extending Presence in Spontaneous Memorials. The Case of the 2017 Manchester Attack -- Introduction -- Presence, Loss and Memorialisation -- Presence Theory and Methodology -- Spontaneous Memorialisation and Presence -- Making, Sharing and Extending Presence of Spontaneous Memorials -- Making Presence -- Sharing Presence -- Extending Presence -- Conclusion -- References -- 11. Resilience or Reconstruction? A Psychoanalytical Approach to Urban Space After the Attack on the Promenade des Anglais (Nice, 14.07.2016) -- Un-Undifferentiated and Undifferentiating Mass Death -- Reappearance of Spatial Differentiation, Not Without New Losses -- Doubling the Loss in Space -- Doubling of Loss in Mourning -- Mourning and Space -- Two Examples of Objections to Doubling the Loss -- To Conclude: Resilience or Reconstruction? -- References -- 12. Vertigo -- Part IV. Victimhood and Trauma -- 13. Hands -- 14. Temporal Conflicts and the Victimhood Communities (Un)Bound by Memory -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Temporal Dimensions of Victimhood -- The Year Zero -- Mid-term (1–5) -- Long Term (5–+) -- Conclusion -- References -- 15. ‘He Must Continue Living Through Us’: The Role of Living Memorials in Continuing Bonds with the Deceased in the Aftermath of Terrorist Violence in France (2015–2016) -- Introduction -- Affective Remembrance and Continuing Bonds with the Deceased -- Bereavement Through a Phenomenological Lens -- Searching for Meaning in the Aftermath of a Violent Loss -- Transforming Loss into a Living Memorial -- The Limits of Inert Memorials in the Face of Grief -- Conclusion -- References -- 16. Transition of an Ex-hostage: Trial of the 13 November 2015 Attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis -- O. fluctuat nec mergitur -- I. Vacuum implere -- II. Who Am I? -- III. Following the Light -- IV. I Am -- Part V. Literature and Creative Imagination -- 17. Inside the Car -- 18. The Realm of Change -- References -- 19. Terrorist Trials Under Literary Scrutiny: Literature as Counterterrorist Response -- Introduction -- Endre Ruset—Forensics Made Poetry -- Yannick Haenel: How to Do Justice with Words -- Kathrin Röggla: Waiting for the Rule of Law -- Conclusion -- References -- 20. Out in the Open -- Index.

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book shows that current debates on this issue are shaped by multiple co-existing and intersecting memories of political violence in the past. Moreover, despite public declarations of unity and solidarity, collective memories of urban terror in contemporary Europe are far from consensual - memory can be both a catalyst for and an impediment to social and political change. Drawing on case studies from a range of European countries and creative responses by survivors, artists, and poets, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to key methods (e.g. discourse analysis and (auto-)ethnography) and concepts (e.g. Lieux de Mémoire and 'grassroots memorials') for the study of the memoralization of terror attacks.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.