Abstract Drawing on an ethnography of dyke bar commemoration in four U.S. cities, this article applies Sedgwick’s concept of “reparative reading” to commemorative practices, tracing how commemorators leverage this reading to guide a logic of reparative action. They commemorate material spaces rooted in place, but cultivate mobile and inclusive space. That is, commemorators, most of whom have had limited exposure to the spaces that they mourn, carefully situate the lost dyke bar, highlighting geographic, esthetic, demographic, and temporal attributes. The images they construct of the situated bar contrast with their commemorative events, which emphasize social over alternate attributes. Commemorators repair and critique the situated bar – not to restore it, but to harness it for their forward-facing efforts – by using memory to advocate for a move from specificity to generality; from situated to mobile and inclusive social spaces. I elucidate how this turn toward social space and bar commemoration itself emerges not merely from institutional and territorial loss, but from commitments to diversity, inclusivity, and queer identities and politics.

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从处所空间到社交空间：堤坝纪念是一种修复行动

摘要本文借鉴美国四个城市堤坝纪念的民族志，将塞奇威克（Sedgwick）的“比较阅读”概念运用到纪念活动中，追溯纪念者如何利用这种阅读来指导赔偿行动的逻辑。他们纪念植根于地方的物质空间，但培育流动性和包容性的空间。就是说，大多数人对悼念场所的接触有限，所以他们小心地摆放了失落的堤坝，突出了地理，审美，人口和时间属性。他们在所放置的酒吧中构建的图像与其纪念活动形成对比，纪念活动强调了社交而非替代属性。纪念者修理和批评附近的酒吧-不能恢复，但要利用它们进行前瞻性努力-通过记忆来倡导从专一性向普遍性转变；从位置到移动性和包容性的社交空间。我阐明了这种转向社会空间和酒吧纪念活动本身的方式，不仅是由于制度和领土上的损失，而且还体现在对多样性，包容性以及同志身份和政治的承诺上。