Place-bound proximity at Rwanda's genocide memorials: on coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remains

Julia Viebach

doi:10.4324/9780429330841-11

Place-bound proximity at Rwanda's genocide memorials: on coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remains

Julia Viebach

School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Abstract

This chapter analyses the connectivities between violence, memory, place, and human substances after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It argues that the memorials are a vehicle for what the author coins “place-bound proximity” that enables a material space of communication between caretakers and their dead loved ones, and provides the last resting place and a “home” for both the living and the dead. Following a “victim-approach”, this chapter draws on extensive fieldwork conducted in Rwanda since 2011.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Localising memory in transitional justice – the dynamics and informal practices of memorialisation after mass violence and dictatorship
Editors	Mina Rauschenbach, Julia Viebach, Stephan Parmentier
Publisher	Routledge
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429330841
ISBN (Print)	9780367344573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429330841-11
Publication status	Published - 30 May 2022

Publication series

Name	Transitional Justice

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Rwanda
Memory
Poltiics
Remembering
Death
Mourning
Victims
Trauma

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

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Viebach, J. (2022). Place-bound proximity at Rwanda's genocide memorials: on coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remains. In M. Rauschenbach, J. Viebach, & S. Parmentier (Eds.), Localising memory in transitional justice – the dynamics and informal practices of memorialisation after mass violence and dictatorship (Transitional Justice ). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429330841-11

Viebach, Julia. / Place-bound proximity at Rwanda's genocide memorials: on coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remains. Localising memory in transitional justice – the dynamics and informal practices of memorialisation after mass violence and dictatorship. editor / Mina Rauschenbach ; Julia Viebach ; Stephan Parmentier. Routledge, 2022. (Transitional Justice ).

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Place-bound proximity at Rwanda's genocide memorials: on coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remains

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