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memorycide en · NOUN

Etymology

From memory + -cide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.
   • Beyond that, the assumed project of memorycide offers a negative foil for the duty to remember and for the dedication of museums, memorials, and monuments. 2012, Dan Stone, The Holocaust and Historical Methodology, →ISBN, page 62:
   • And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon. 2002, Lynn Meskell, Archaeology Under Fire, →ISBN:
   • They foreshadowed a total war against a population threatened with "memorycide," to use Mirko Grmek's terminology, as well as "Urbicide," a fundamental dimension of this memorycide, as Bogdan Bogdanovic put it. 2003, Robert Gellately, Ben Kiernan, The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, →ISBN:
   • I remembered the first peace activists who came with their ideas of nonviolent actions against the war already in 1991; I could evoke many images of war atrocities, tortures and moments of memorycide but also the miraculous situations of human support and actions across borders; I couldn't foget my own restlessness facing women victims of rape, their silence, their shame and their dignity. 2007, Asking, we walk: the South as new political imaginary:

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Translations (2)

pt memoricídio (Translations) · fr mémoricide (Translations)