Questioning Traumatic Heritage. Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America

This book marks the conclusion of a six-year international and interdisciplinary European Research Project “SPEME Questioning Traumatic Heritage in Europe, Argentina, Colombia” (2018-2024) in which university researchers and heritage professionals debated the role played by urban spaces in the construction and representation of events and subjectivities involved in collective traumatic experiences. All the contributions in this book delve into the multi-layered dimensions of the nexus between spaces, spatiality, memories, and traumas that consist of, and, at the same time, put these dimensions into a productive tension in various academic and professional contexts.