Description:
The book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a single name is added to an endless list.
Review Quotes:
"Monumental Names is a deeply thoughtful ethnography of the activist organisations Memorial and Last Address in Moscow. ... [It] is a complex book, deeply engaging with philosophy, which makes it a laborious read for students not familiar with such literature. But conversely it is full of interesting ideas for memory scholars." - Roger Sansi in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale