Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Thursday, Feb 5, 2 pm
Campus Westend, HZ15
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This talk looks at how communal grief work makes the suffering and pain of loss visible and speakable. It reinvents as Liz Stanley (2002, 2) suggest the “political life of the community.” The unfolding of mourning as a material act makes us realize “with what consequences ‘lives’ are written about, and the complex and ultimately unknowable relationship that ‘written lives’ have to ‘lives lived’” (ibid., 3). By giving voice to the experiences of justice and injustice in the process of mourning of family members that have lost their loved ones to racist attacks in Germany, but also by asserting the (im-)possibility of mourning in Gaza, this talk discusses the work that goes into mourning’s justice.
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez is professor of sociology of culture and migration and Goethe University Frankfurt.