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Responsibility for justice in action commemoration, affect and politics at Il Memoriale della Shoah in Milan2.96 MB
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Journal article
Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at Il Memoriale della Shoah in Milan
Critical Discourse Studies, Vol.20(5), pp.561-580
2023
Abstract
In this article, we analyse Il Memoriale della Shoah, the memorial of the victims of the Shoah in Milan, which was inaugurated in 2013 and, in 2015, was turned into a night shelter for destitute migrants. To understand the rhetoric and politics of the Memorial, we bring together the notions of affective practices, découpages du temps (lit. slices of time) and multidirectional memory. This analytic approach allows us to examine the nonlinear shape of remembering, the dialectic relationships between the spatialisation of time and the temporalisation of space, the ways in which emotions are brought into being semiotically in context, and the ethical questions that these feelings raise. Through detailed multimodal and affective analysis of the affordances of the built environment and its soundscape, the curation of the Memorial, the contextualisation of three guided tours (two online and one in situ) and politicised commentary on the Memorial’s decision to shelter refugees, our paper illustrates the multi-layered character of the relationship between space and time – one in which the past, the present and the future partly overlap and mobilise political action.
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- Title
- Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at Il Memoriale della Shoah in Milan
- Authors
- Tommaso M. Milani (Author) - University of GothenburgJohn E. Richardson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Publication details
- Critical Discourse Studies, Vol.20(5), pp.561-580
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1080/17405904.2022.2092164
- ISSN
- 1740-5912; 1740-5904
- Copyright note
- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99654998202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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