Grief activismGrief activism or cemetery activism attempts to render visibility to the anonymous dead and make visible fatality of borders. "Grief-activism constitutes a transformative political practice that can foster relationalities and communities in opposition to a politics of division, abandonment and necropolitical violence on which EUrope’s border regime thrives. By enacting different communal possibilities, such activism questions, interrupts and displaces sovereign... More or cemetery activism attempts to render visibility to the anonymous dead and make visible fatality of borders. “Grief-activism constitutes a transformative political practice that can foster relationalities and communities in opposition to a politics of division, abandonment and necropolitical violence on which EUrope’s border regime thrives. By enacting different communal possibilities, such activism questions, interrupts and displaces sovereign citizenship as a foundational and identitarian arrangement of community and engenders alternative imaginaries of ways of being-with one another. Formulating a politics around deathDeath is physical, biological and social phenomena. Death as social phenomena remains present in society and is handled symbolically after life is over. ... More in migration struggles poses a series of important questions relating to solidarity, identification and, ultimately, ethics. While grief-activism must necessarily entail a horizon of failure and moments in which solidarity does not materialise and identification breaks down, it is the risking of oneself in complex encounters that, rather than pre-emptively formulating what community constitutes, pose community as a question continuously anew” (Stierl 2016: 174).
Commemoration of the third obituary of deathDeath is physical, biological and social phenomena. Death as social phenomena remains present in society and is handled symbolically after life is over. ... More of Madina Hussiny, Zagreb, 21 November 2020
Literature:
Stierl, Maurice. 2016. „Contestations in deathDeath is physical, biological and social phenomena. Death as social phenomena remains present in society and is handled symbolically after life is over. ... More. The role of Grief in Migration Struggles“. Citizenship Studies 20/2: 173-191.