Description: "Victims of Commemoration studies activist and official commemorations held at three sites of historical violence in Turkey, architectural projects for turning them into memorial museums, and the reverberations of these commemorative acts and artifacts across the everyday life of the city where each site is located"--
Review Quotes: What is the relationship between an event of historical violence and its subsequent commemoration? Brilliantly challenging our received understandings of historical representation, Victims of Commemoration analyzes how the violence of the past persists in the formation of public spaces and built environments.-- "Kabir Tambar, Stanford University"