Roberto Beneduce
Research project
Embodied archives of memory, or how migrants remember. Historical consciousness and traumatic events on the Mediterranean’s borders
Project summary
The research concerns three profiles of the migratory experience:
– the variables (cultural, religious, political) determining, during the migratory experience, the forms of memory and forgetting, and their relationship with questions of suffering and cure ;
– the way in which the body reproduces memory and the social bond, through what we might call embodied archives, among which symptoms and illness take on the role of counter-memory in Lipsitz’s sense;
– the dialectic between memory and forgetting, and the moral economies of lying among refugees and asylum seekers, while asking the question: what does it mean for these subjects to have to invent dates, names, painful events, relationships and emotions, and thus live in a world of experiences without references, to the point of inventing a parallel biography (or even: memory)?
