ABSTRACT I have been researching and writing about traumascapes for the past two decades. The central argument guiding my research is simple: physical sites of violence and loss are much more than mere backdrops to the traumatic events that take place in their soil. They are deeply implicated in individual and collective processes of grieving, remembering, and meaning-making. I deploy an autoethnographic approach in this paper, charting my progression through key ideas informing my research, and exploring in depth the dominance of the memorialisation trope in the majority of sustained engagements with places of trauma. I reflect on several recent cultural shifts that have been instrumental in changing our understanding of and relationship with physical sites of trauma, including the mainstreaming of grief’s public life (once wild and uncontained spontaneous memorials, for example, are now culturally expected, almost mandated, in the West), the resolute everywhereness of traumascapes, the gradual depathologisation of trauma in public conversations and cultural imaginings, and a quiet revolution in the way we do memorialisation. I tentatively propose the next stage in imagining the future of sites inscribed with violence and loss, arguing for the necessity of superseding the idea of traumascapes in human engagement with such places.

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二十年关于创伤景观的思考

摘要 在过去的二十年里，我一直在研究和撰写关于创伤景观的文章。指导我研究的中心论点很简单：暴力和损失的物理场所不仅仅是发生在他们土壤中的创伤事件的背景。它们深深地牵涉到个人和集体的悲伤、记忆和意义创造过程中。我在这篇论文中采用了一种自我民族志方法，通过为我的研究提供信息的关键思想来描绘我的进步，并深入探索了在大多数与创伤场所的持续接触中纪念比喻的主导地位。我反思了最近的几次文化转变，这些转变有助于改变我们对物理创伤部位的理解和关系，包括悲伤的公共生活的主流化（例如，曾经狂野和不受控制的自发纪念馆，现在在西方文化上被期待，几乎是强制性的），创伤场景的坚决无处不在，公共对话和文化想象中的创伤逐渐去病态化，以及我们进行纪念的方式发生了一场安静的革命。我试探性地提出了想象充满暴力和损失的遗址的未来的下一阶段，认为有必要在人类参与这些地方的过程中取代创伤景观的想法。