Promises Beyond Memory

Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America

Vikki Bell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2950-2 (ISBN)

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In Promises Beyond Memory, Vikki Bell shows how archives of contemporary political violence in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia challenge the idea that simply sheltering the documentation of violence is sufficient to fulfill the obligations of attending to the past. Beyond mere preservation, these archives, museums, and sites of memory invite exploratory modes of enlivening the past through aesthetic practices like photography, installation, film, and performance. These practices foster the “survivance” of memory where populations still grapple with legacies of violence and often state-sponsored mass disappearance and torture. Rather than produce a definitive account of the past, such survivance facilitates polyvocal articulations that open deeply political and ethical questions around contested histories. They may even create moments for what Bell terms “tender forgetting”—the ability to remember without reawakening trauma. Integrating theory, extensive archival work, and interviews with artists, archivists, museum workers, and survivors of state violence, Bell analyses the creative ways that archives pass on stories of violence as they seek to defend against attempts to rewrite the past.

Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	A Cultural Politics Book
Zusatzinfo	50 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4780-2950-1 / 1478029501
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2950-2 / 9781478029502
Zustand	Neuware