Description: Vikki Bell examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past.
Review Quotes: "Focusing on Chile, Colombia and Argentina, this outstanding book innovatively challenges the often-unreflective hope that memory can effectively serve as a bulwark against intergenerational cycles of violence. Instead, it proposes that dramatizations of the archive are central to mnemonic stewardship, understood as a curatorial and dynamic, temporally extended project. All in all, a must read for all students of political memory."--Mihaela Mihai, author of, Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance
"Vikki Bell's prose is beautiful and fluid, and her mastery of the complex subject matter is quite striking for its empathy and humanity."--Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas