The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing
relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped central transitional justice norms and …

This paper discusses a number of stories about loss, grief and genocide in Bosnia-
Herzegovina and the attempts by the survivors to construct intimate archives about their …

This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East
Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a …

By adopting a spatial approach to analysis, this article examines the significance of death in
Timor-Leste and its relationship to security and peace. The main argument is that a person's …

This article analyzes the key role of graves and reburials (ie, the relocation of a grave to a
new site, or its refurbishment) in making ancestors present in the lives of the Fataluku …

This article tracks the memory of East Timor's Santa Cruz massacre across time and space,
attending to the multiple scales at which it is imbued with meaning. While footage of the …

ABSTRACT Street naming in Windhoek, Namibia, traces its political origins to the German
colonial period. While the role of toponymy as a tool for political construction in the …

This chapter addresses differentiated forms of the cult of martyrs: the" Gardens of Heroes"
designed and built under the auspices of central government and an instance of graves that …

This article examines how Timor-Leste's dead are memory workers. Drawing on
ethnographic research, it probes how the restless spirits of those who died during the …

At the end of the Bosnian War (1992–1995), in addition to more than 100,000 killed, close to
40,000 individuals were missing, many of whom have still not been found or identified. The …