Promises Beyond Memory Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America

"Focusing on Chile, Colombia and Argentina, this outstanding book innovatively challenges the often-unreflective hope that memory can effectively serve as a bulwark against intergenerational cycles of violence. Instead, it proposes that dramatizations of the archive are central to mnemonic stewardship, understood as a curatorial and dynamic, temporally extended project. All in all, a must read for all students of political memory."-Mihaela Mihai, author of, Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance

"Vikki Bell's prose is beautiful and fluid, and her mastery of the complex subject matter is quite striking for its empathy and humanity."-Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas