Our book Las luchas por la memoria contra las violencias en México, co-edited by Alexandrea Délano Alonso, Alicia de los Rios Merino, Maria De Vecchi Gerli and me, is now out with El Colegio de México. It documents and analyzes the various struggles over memory throughout Mexico in the context of the “war on drugs” since 2006 and brings together perspectives from researchers, activists, architects, artists and family members of victims of enforced disappearance. The different contributions show the heterogeneity of memory spaces and memory actors and address the pressing questions that emerge from the particularity of the Mexican case.
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This conversation with the co-designer of the Triangle Fire Memorial, Richard Joon Yoo, and the president of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, Mary Anne Trasciatti, will focus on the memorial's specific genesis and impact and on the relationship between history, memory and public space more broadly. Moderated by Teresa Fiore (Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies) and me. More information and an RSVP form can be found here.
On Thursday, October 26, at 7:30pm, the New School will host an event that examines current waves of protest in Mexico, Chilé, and Brazil to mark the publication of a new Special Feature on “The Many Faces of Protest: Rethinking Collective Action in a World of Dissent” in the journal Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate. Alexandra Delano and I will present on the Anti-Monument movement in Mexico City. Location: The New School, Starr Foundation Hall (U L102), 63 Fifth Ave., New York, NY.
Our article "Memory Protest and Contested Time: The Antimonumentos Route in Mexico City" (co-authored with Alexandra Delano) was published in Volume 17, No.1 of Sociologica.
The edited volume Verdad, justicia y memoria, published by El Colegio de México and edited by Juan Espíndola and Mónica Serrano, includes a translation of a chapter by Alexandra Délano and me on the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico City.
The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism is now out. This first systematic effort to map the growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies was edited by Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg and includes the section "Normative Dilemmas" (edited and introduced by me), as well as my chapter "Between Conflict and Consensus" and my interview with Sergio Beltrán-García (with Alexandra Délano). The UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies recently hosted this event celebrating the launch of the Handbook, moderated by Michael Rothberg and with a response from Brett Ashley Kaplan.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum posted some excerpts from the event "Invisible Victims: 9/11 and Undocumented Immigrants".
The podcast Shoe Leather, out of Columbia University, features our research on undocumented victims of 9/11 in its new episode "The Disappeared".
Our article "The Struggle for Memory and Justice in Mexico" (co-authored with Alexandra Delano) was published in Volume 121, Issue 832 of Current History.
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