Chapter 14 Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The “Heritagization” of a Materialized Vox Populi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots Memorials 1
6. Part I Negotiating Societal Violence
7. Chapter 1 “Difficult Remembrance” Memorializing Mafia Victims in Palermo 51
8. Chapter 2 Ritual Mediations of Violent Death: An Ethnography of the Theo van Gogh Memorial Site, Amsterdam 71
9. Chapter 3 Between Commemoration and Social Activism: Spontaneous Shrines, Grassroots Memorialization, and the Public Ritualesque in Derry 97
10. Chapter 4 Memorializing Shooters with Their Victims: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University 108
11. Part II Contesting Objectionable Death
12. Chapter 5 Marking Death: Grief, Protest, and Politics after a Fatal Traffic Accident 145
13. Chapter 6 Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City Streets 169
14. Chapter 7 Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish Cities 188
15. Chapter 8 Remembering La Tragedia: Commemorations of the 1999 Floods in Venezuela 208
16. Part III Sociability and Reflexive Antiterrorism
17. Chapter 9 Street Shrines and the Writing of Disaster 9/11, New York, 2001 229
18. Chapter 10 The Madrid Train Bombings: Enacting the Emotional Body at the March 11 Grassroots Memorials 244
19. Chapter 11 Purification and Remembrance: Eastern and Western Ways of Dealing with the Bali Bombings 262
20. Part IV Instrumentalizing Repositories of Memory
21. Chapter 12 September 11 Museums, Spontaneous Memorials, and History 285
22. Chapter 13 Piazza Carlo Giuliani— G8 Summit, Genoa 2001 Death, Testimony, Memory 304
23. Chapter 14 Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The “Heritagization” of a Materialized Vox Populi 319
24. Notes on Contributors 346
25. Index 352