Response on borders, conflict zones, and memory

Abstract

In response to five essays (including the historiographical introduction) written in her honour, Luisa Passerini offers precise commentary and wide-ranging reflections on the different authors' applications of such key concepts as subjectivity, intersubjectivity, memory, narration, love, utopia, and ego-histoire. Mixing the intellectual, emotional, professional, and personal, she considers the varied implications of the transnational and multigenerational panel of scholars whose respective contributions address Mennonite refugee women's food memories testimonies by far-left Chilean women tortured by the military dictatorship after the 1973 coup memories of the war between East and West Pakistan, and India and Pakistan and a self-reflexive re-visitation of her career-encompassing work.