Nightmare Remains : The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance

Islekel, Ege Selin

Northwestern University Press（2024/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780810147485
• DDC分類 155.937

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Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning

Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of mourning is fundamental to contemporary politics. This technology of necrosovereignty shapes not only individuals' and populations' lives but also their epistemic and political afterlives. Local practices of mourning, however, contain resistant capacities, opening alternative ways of knowing, remembering, and assembling. "Nightmare knowledges," Islekel posits, are resistant modes of knowing tied up with grief that challenge the contemporary politics of death and those politics' archival boundaries. Seen in mothers' movements across the globe, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo of Argentina to the Saturday Mothers of Turkey, nightmare knowledges produce counterarchives that mobilize traditionally ignored epistemic categories.

Nightmare Remains forges a new dialogue between post-Foucauldian political theory and decolonial thought and brings a fresh critical perspective to the theoretical discourse of enforced disappearances.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Prelude
Introduction 
Part One: Necrosovereignty
Chapter One: Absent Death
Chapter Two: Disappearing Grief 
Chapter 3: Building Anew 
Interlude
Part Two: Nightmare Knowledges
Chapter Four: The Epistemology of Loss
Chapter Five: Stories of Nothing 
Chapter Six: Fables that Stir the Mind 
Coda  
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index