✶ ✶ “The postwar reconstruction of Beirut after the Lebanese Civil War served to project its heritage into the neoliberal future, erasing all physical traces of violence and raising questions about the possibility to recall, speak of, and remember the war. Likewise, the almost unimaginable rapid reconstruction of villages and neighbourhoods in South Lebanon and the Suburbs of Beirut after the July War, and Hezbollah’s statement “we will make Dahiyeh more beautiful than it was,” is another form of urban erasure of the war’s traces that works towards strengthening the collective, while articulations of suffering from violence and its aftermath become less and less tolerated in the community (Moghnieh).”

the transmission of memory from adults
to children

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ALL CARLA'S NOTES

Articles/ Texts/ Videos Notes & Quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htabVPvolgI
Basma Abdelaziz has a novel called Queue and talks about how the government ridicules these characters and lets them suffer outside their gates.
https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/10/09/cyprus-has-second-lowest-number-of-psychiatric-hospital-beds-in-eu/
“The Athalassa hospital built in 1964 is the only state psychiatric hospital on the island. MPs, political parties, hospital staff and patients’ relatives have been lamenting for years the sorry state of the building, calling for a new one.”

Milich, Stephan, and Lamia Moghnieh. "Trauma: Social realities and cultural texts." Middle East-Topics & Arguments 11 (2018): 5-15.
file:///Users/macbook/Downloads/astrohmaier,+META_%2311_s5_s15_Editorial.pdf
“Still, the politics of suffering from violence and war—how we articulate our suffering, to whom, and why—seems to be a matter of intense discussion and debate in the MENA, often taking a comparative approach”... “Embedded within these comparisons is a competition over the political recognition of victimhood editorial 05 Trauma: Social Realities and Cultural Texts Stephan Milich, Lamia Moghnieh Middle East – Topics & Arguments #11–2018 06 against violent states, settler colonialism, and foreign wars, and a critique of a hierarchy of suffering, at the center of which trauma is seen as a political position and a claim for justice.”
“living in post-violence exile”
“...interpretation and making political meaning of unfathomable events.”
“...absurd relationships between literary representation, bio-politics, and trauma.”
“...remembering and suffering are crucial positions against state violence and patriarchy that seek to erase and hide the traces of violence they committed.”
“...loss of land, displacement, and other forms of dispossession are considered to be less “traumatic” than a number of other practices of injustice and political violence such as massacres.”
“If it is difficult for victimized communities to reclaim rights of reparation and compensation, it is usually impossible for the marginalized ‘other’.”
The invisible daily traumas are not considered significant. Almost the same way Sarafina talks about their invisible disability. They do not “pass” in an also similar way that they describe ballroom categories to want to work.
Another not is that trauma is described as being potent in the MENA region but it is also unquantified and no one's experience of trauma being similar.
“Additionally, trans- or intergenerational trauma can be situated at the interface between individual and collective forms of traumatization.”
People in power can also claim statuses of traumatization. This is, in my opinion, in line with the sort of painful romanticism of the white male gaze. The text instead refers to the politics and the use of pity. There is also a shocking quote that reads as follows: “...Syrian refugees should not be granted asylum or resident status in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council because those people are traumatized and therefore threatening.” … “the link they create between forced migration, trauma, and the propensity to violence (“appetitive aggression”)”
“presents refugees as a homogenous group, all of them apparently sharing the same destiny and features.” This is similar to Rich’s text where she talks of all bodies being an abstraction and that each body is its own entity despite its categorization. “...it is highly problematic to serve recurring prejudices that might easily be instrumentalized…”
✶ ✶ “The postwar reconstruction of Beirut after the Lebanese Civil War served to project its heritage into the neoliberal future, erasing all physical traces of violence and raising questions about the possibility to recall, speak of, and remember the war. Likewise, the almost unimaginable rapid reconstruction of villages and neighbourhoods in South Lebanon and the Suburbs of Beirut after the July War, and Hezbollah’s statement “we will make Dahiyeh more beautiful than it was,” is another form of urban erasure of the war’s traces that works towards strengthening the collective, while articulations of suffering from violence and its aftermath become less and less tolerated in the community (Moghnieh).”
“war reconstruction politics make some of the infrastructures of suffering”
“This makes Judith Butler’s distinction between “grievable” and “ungrievable” lives all the more relevant. Fassin and Rechtman have formulated it well, when they explained that “trauma can be read in various ways, depending on the political purposes it serves”” Damn. This also touches on the topis of the Other in relation to imperialism and colonial histories and narratives.
Colonial Trauma is an interesting topic also mentioned here. There is this recognition that there are many peripherals to the ideas of trauma and that no two locations can absorb these methods similarly. There is also a question of who has the power to support studies in all social and educational (medical) sectors.
Researching trauma is said to be a way to de-colonize it also. * (check notes on Decolonizing Trauma Theory: Retrospect and Prospects)
“Being attentive to literary conceptualizations of trauma that resist the dominant Eurocentric trauma model and traumatic belatedness, Nora Parr’s essay stresses the “everyday” forms of traumatization, of being confronted or living in constant violence.”
“...the use of specific discursive strategies, culturally embedded metaphors, and historic references contributes to the construction of a collectively shared sense of traumatic belonging.”
“...performative communal practices of dealing with traumatic situations and their aftermath.”
This mode of performative and collective learning is so precious.
“...traumatizing events could not be verbally addressed in the realm of the family, succeeds in elucidating the concealed forms and dynamics of transmitting traumatic situations with their felt emotions and affects to the next generation(s)”
“beyond the dominant discourse of “therapeutic history” that hides and erases certain forms of violence.” ✶ ✶ I feel this deep deep as a form of reconstructed peace by my mother. This is also reflected in the political reconstruction of a more beautiful Lebanon. I want to ask her if she remembers that.
“the Thesis/Anti-Thesis articles both address the critiques of trauma in the humanities today, as a concept that de-politicizes and de-contextualizes human suffering while silencing marginal and subversive ways of experiencing and living with violence in the MENA region”

Leonard, Madeleine. "Echoes from the past: Intergenerational memories in Cyprus." Children & Society 28.1 (2014): 66-76.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/10076094.pdf
“These memories allow young people in particular to share in the stories of older members of society and through time to incorporate these stories into their own life narratives. Stories may also be employed to achieve social, economic or political ends. Where people have experienced collective emotionally traumatic events, stories facilitate the establishment and maintenance of shared memories of the past and more importantly help contribute to shared interpretations of these events.”
According to Wertsch (2002, p. 32), collective memory is fundamental to the creation of individual and group identities and, in producing a useable past to achieve present-day objectives, ‘the notion of accuracy must be downplayed or sacrificed’.
Can this quote be part of a narrative involved with emotional trauma?: “In politically contested societies, children’s minds often become ‘the terrain for adult battles’”
“while some young people appear to accept family memories, others rework dominant narratives”


Raising a glass to Cyprus: Why the winemakers don't do the bubbles
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/travel/arid-30935685.html
Decolonizing Trauma Theory: Retrospect and Prospects
file:///Users/macbook/Downloads/humanities-04-00250.pdf
The text begins to show that intergenerational trauma is one that could arguably be connected to colonialism: “Part of the original theory’s Eurocentrism is its exclusive focus on the event-based model of trauma, which does not account for the sustained and long processes of the trauma of colonialism.”
More questions:
Do you think your parents went through any significantly traumatic experiences? What were they? And how do you think they affected them?
Madeleine Leonard says, “the future of the child tends to be linked to the future of the country” and Moghnieh, says more specifically that “The postwar reconstruction of Beirut after the Lebanese Civil War served to project its heritage into the neoliberal future, erasing all physical traces of violence and raising questions about the possibility to recall, speak of, and remember the war. Likewise, the almost unimaginable rapid reconstruction of villages and neighbourhoods in South Lebanon and the Suburbs of Beirut after the July War, and Hezbollah’s statement “we will make Dahiyeh more beautiful than it was,” is another form of urban erasure of the war’s traces that works towards strengthening the collective, while articulations of suffering from violence and its aftermath become less and less tolerated in the community. Do you agree?

Notes about archiving
Types of archives can be a BLOG. We can look at Saba Ahmed for research in this field. I also remember the encyclopaedia. Check out https://youtu.be/TzM8GTL2WGo . Heather Cassils which is featured in the Queer Culture Collection archive. Other artists ( I could see / hear from the presentation) are Douglas Crimp, Nolan Oswald Dennis (archiving the future).

Note for me: fermentation recipes of traxanas? Or wine? Of something arabic

RESEARCH AREAS/ IDEAS:

✶ Video 'interview' with Mum about the Lebanese civil war and its impacts.
✶ Broken vases - can they become decorational and what are the broken pots of my past generations? The pottery of Cyprus is important to its heritage.
✶ The idea of fermentation as a mirror of bottled up emotions. What can I use as my intervention?

. MORE EXPLORATION METHODS THIS WAY ☞

I CONDUCTED AN INTERVIEW WITH MY MUM

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INITIAL RESEARCH & FOUND IMAGES

LINKS BETWEEN THEORY & MY FAMILY

LINKS IN INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA & FERMENTATION

AND COLLECTED VIDEOS OR FERMENTED FOODS & THEIR CONTAINERS