Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015-2016
On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape. Sarah Gensburger, a sociologist working on social memory and its localisation, lives with her family on the Boulevard Voltaire and has been studying the city of Paris as her primary field site for several years. This time, memorialisation was taking place on her doorstep. Both a diary and an academic work, this book is a chronicle of this grassroots memorialisation process and an in-depth analysis of the way it has been embedded in the everyday lives of the author, neighbours, other Parisians and tourists.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content).

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Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015-2016
On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape. Sarah Gensburger, a sociologist working on social memory and its localisation, lives with her family on the Boulevard Voltaire and has been studying the city of Paris as her primary field site for several years. This time, memorialisation was taking place on her doorstep. Both a diary and an academic work, this book is a chronicle of this grassroots memorialisation process and an in-depth analysis of the way it has been embedded in the everyday lives of the author, neighbours, other Parisians and tourists.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content).

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Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015-2016

Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015-2016

by Sarah Gensburger
Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015-2016

Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015-2016

by Sarah Gensburger

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Overview

On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape. Sarah Gensburger, a sociologist working on social memory and its localisation, lives with her family on the Boulevard Voltaire and has been studying the city of Paris as her primary field site for several years. This time, memorialisation was taking place on her doorstep. Both a diary and an academic work, this book is a chronicle of this grassroots memorialisation process and an in-depth analysis of the way it has been embedded in the everyday lives of the author, neighbours, other Parisians and tourists.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789462701342
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Publication date: 03/15/2019
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Gensburger is a senior researcher in social sciences at the French National Center for Scientific Research-CNRS and a member of the executive committee of the international Memory Studies Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Between Research and Everyday Life: Photography, Family and Ordinary Conversations

26 Paris, 11th arrondissement, Boulevard Voltaire
December 27, 2015 — September 20, 2016

Event(s)
December 27, 2015

Distance
December 28, 2015

Traces
December 30, 2015

Trace
December 31, 2015

Disappearance
January 1, 2016

Appearance
January 4, 2016

Plaques
January 5, 2016

Gazes
January 6, 2016

Interpretation
January 8, 2016

Photography
January 9, 2016

Reflections
January 10, 2016

Messages
January 11, 2016

Detour
January 12, 2016

Solidarity
January 14, 2016

Tourism
January 15, 2016

Nationality
January 17, 2016

Nation
January 18, 2016

Normality
January 21, 2016

Data
January 26, 2016

Pilgrimage
February 2, 2016

Property
February 6, 2016

Invisibility
February 8, 2016

Witnesses
February 13, 2016

Collecting Messages
February 16, 2016

Groups
February 24, 2016

Holidays
February 28, 2016

Neighbors
March 1, 2016

Journalists
March 7, 2016

Demonstration
March 10, 2016

Conflict
March 17, 2016

Mobilizations
March 21, 2016

Normalization
March 26, 2016

A Place to Sit
April 8, 2016

Reading
April 13, 2016

Memories
April 18, 2016

Place
April 23, 2016

Meaning
May 1, 2016

Seeing and Being Seen
May 13, 2016

Privatization
May 19, 2016

Shift
May 20, 2016

Banner
May 22, 2016

Sacred
May 24, 2016

Trauma
June 13, 2016

Color
June 14, 2016

Icons
June 18, 2016

Preaching
June 18, 2016

Reconquest
June 19, 2016

Flags
June 27, 2016

Empty
July 1, 2016

Date
July 16, 2016

Silence
July 24, 2016

Ephemeral
August 1, 2016

T-Shirts
August 12, 2016

Cycle
September 1, 2016

Heritage
September 20, 2016

Conclusion
An Unfinished Memorialization: Archives, Monuments and Museums

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French Voices Committee

Awkwardly brilliant. This book offers an important intervention into what it means to create histories of the contemporary.

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