ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the bones and bodies that lie at the centre of genocide memorialisation in Rwanda. Tensions remain in Rwanda in the manufacturing of state legitimacy, a function of the literal crafting of the state out of genocide. It also explains the memorialisation of undocumented immigrants who die crossing the US-Mexico border. The book explores the logic of vanishing evident in exploring the 9/11 memorial imaginary. Monuments are ways to concretise memory. A particular story of the event being memorialised must be told in order for the particular project of memorialisation to occur. The book speaks about ghostly politics and explores author's haunting, stories of others about the things that haunt them, and what a hauntological approach elicits: what it can tell us about international relations.
