Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides moderate contribution to the field of genocide and memory studies. It draws attention to the memory of war and genocidal violence lasting from 1987 to 2006 in Uganda. The book examines how narratives of memories and experiences of forced sterilization disrupt silence. Ivana Macek explores filmic encounters of memories and testimonies of killing, torture and death, corporal memory, and the effects and affectivity of documentary films. Rachmi Diyah Larasati examines the relationship between dance and remembering, agents of speaking, and speaking as agency in post-genocide Indonesia, and she discusses how they undo the "canonization of the neoliberal inclusion of victim-hood". Ralph Buchenhorst argues that trans-local memory networks, as an analytical concept of comparing and testing different and at times differing translations of genocidal events, are an important step in the ongoing process of globalizing communication about past events.