Post-Conflict Hauntings

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Introduction: Post-Conflict Hauntings

   • Kim Wale, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Jeffrey Prager

   Pages 1-25

3. Towards an Ethics of Haunted Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Remembering Forwards: Healing the Hauntings of the Past

      • John D. Brewer

      Pages 29-46

   3. Ethics of Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation

      • Irit Keynan

      Pages 47-66

   4. What Pandora Did: The Spectre of Reparation and Hope in an Irreparable World

      • Jaco Barnard-Naudé

      Pages 67-92

   5. Do Black Lives Matter? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Racism and American Resistance to Reparations

      • Jeffrey Prager

      Pages 93-118

   6. Aesthetics of Memory, Witness to Violence and a Call to Repair

      • Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

      Pages 119-149

4. Local Expressions of Collective Haunting and Healing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Haunting and Transitional Justice: On Lives, Landscapes and Unresolved Pasts in Northern Ireland

      • Cheryl Lawther

      Pages 153-176

   3. Listening for the Quiet Violence in the Unspoken

      • Marietjie Oelofsen

      Pages 177-202

   4. Intergenerational Nostalgic Haunting and Critical Hope: Memories of Loss and Longing in Bonteheuwel

      • Kim Wale

      Pages 203-227

   5. The Ghosts of Collective Violence: Pathways of Transmission Between Genocide-Survivor Mothers and Their Young Adult Children in Rwanda

      • Grace Kagoyire, Marianne Vysma, Annemiek Richters

      Pages 229-257

   6. How Shall We Talk of Bhalagwe? Remembering the Gukurahundi Era in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

      • Shari Eppel

      Pages 259-284

5. Transforming Haunted Memory Through Artistic Interventions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. Symptom as History, Culture as Healing: Incarcerated Aboriginal Women’s Journeys Through Historic Trauma and Recovery Processes

      • Judy Atkinson

      Pages 287-314

   3. Representing Collective Trauma of Korean War: Creative Education as a Peacebuilding Strategy

      • Borislava Manojlovic

      Pages 315-337

   4. Monuments of Historical Trauma as Sites of Artistic Expression, Emotional Processing and Political Negotiation

      • Andrea Bieler

      Pages 339-366

6. Back Matter

   Pages 367-371

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This book engages the globally pressing question of how to live and work with the haunting power of the past in the aftermath of mass violence. It brings together a collection of interdisciplinary contributions to reflect on the haunting of post-conflict memory from the perspective of diverse country case studies including South Africa, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland,  North and South Korea, Palestine and Israel, America and Australia. Contributions offer theoretical, empirical and practical insights on the nature of historical trauma and practices of collective healing and repair that include embodied, artistic and culturally relevant forms of wisdom for dealing with the past. While this question has traditionally been explored through the lens of trauma studies in relation to the post-Holocaust experience, this book provides new understandings from a variety of different historical contexts and disciplinary perspectives. Its chapters draw on, challenge and expand the trauma concept to propose more contextually relevant frameworks for transforming haunted memory in the aftermath of historical trauma.

• post-conflict societies
• memory studies
• crime and memory
• post-colonial history
• violence and memory
• reconciliation studies
• transitional justice
• conflict studies
• victims
• genocide
• White Supremacy
• psycho-social
• ghost criminology

“This sparkling collection of essays explores the pressing question of how societies emerging from conflict can deal with the haunting legacies of the past in such a way as to prevent recurrence and lay the ground for a just and lasting peace through a dazzling array of case studies from around the world. Resolutely international as well as interdisciplinary in its scope and ambition, Post-Conflict Hauntings can be seen to respond to recent calls for memory and trauma studies to become more diverse, pluralistic, culturally sensitive, and future-oriented. It models precisely the kind of scholarship needed to understand the spectral presence of the past in an increasingly globalized and troubled world. Anyone interested in issues of memory, trauma, and justice in post-conflict settings will find this book an invaluable resource” (Professor Stef Craps, Director of the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative at Ghent University, Belgium)

“The editors of Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma, have created and compiled an indispensable aggregate of master narratives that scholars, public policy analysts, clinicians and artists, among others, will forever treasure. The authors provide us with myriad epistemic conversations and manifestations of psychologically-charged “post” external world trauma outside the Jewish Holocaust. They succinctly and successfully challenge us to come to grips with historical precepts, new texts and new contexts so that when we are able to recontextualize our histories, we may be able to have hope in the face of irreparable large-scale and as yet unmetabolized injury” (Professor Maurice Apprey, Dean of African American Affairs, University of Virginia, USA)

• Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  Kim Wale, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

• Department of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Jeffrey Prager

• New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, USA

  Jeffrey Prager

Kim Wale is Senior Researcher in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor and Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Jeffrey Prager is Research Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles, US

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