Four Monuments and the Politics of Funerals: Established Pathological Mourning and Collective Memory

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Abstract

Spatialisation offers a fertile tool with which to approach the conflicted and embattled politics of remembrance in contemporary Hungary, analysed by Jeffrey Murer (“Four Monuments and a Funeral: Pathological Mourning and Collective Memory in
Contemporary Hungary”). The four memorials and a funeral site, which Murer refers to in his chapter’s title, are all positioned in walking distance from one another in Budapest’s city centre. They all can be understood as the material renderings of the Hungarians’ struggle with their unfinished, conflicted past. Contending interpretations of this past are thus inscribed into the urban space, where they disseminate undigested affective states amongst Budapest’s inhabitants. In this way memorials can be seen to play an active role in Hungary’s ongoing authoritarian turn.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFomenting Political Violence
Subtitle of host publicationFantasy, Language, Media, Action
EditorsSteve Krügger, Barry Richards, Karl Figlio
Place of PublicationUK
Chapter10
Pages189-216
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-97505-4
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2018

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