Title: Photo Album “Pripyat”
Reference: In the Ukrainian and Russian languages. 1976, 1986
Keywords: photography, memory, Pripyat
Abstract:This photo album tells us about one of the youngest cities in Ukraine – Pripyat that was established thanks to the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
URL: http://pripyat-city.ru/books/57-fotoalbom.html
http://pripyat-city.ru/books/174-pripyat-fotoalbom-1976.html
Title: Chernobyl’s Sixth Sense: The Symbolism of an Ever-Present Awareness
Author: Sarah D. Phillips
Reference: Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 159–185, December 2004
doi: 10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159
Keywords: Chernobyl, Ukraine, memory, symbol, museum
Abstract: [This article examines the symbolic life of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I argue that Chernobyl symbols serve as a set of resources: they produce memory, and they are the grounds for making a new society. My analyses are based on representations of Chernobyl in academic and popular discourse, literature, and museums. Through discussions of embodiment and collective memory, I argue that Chernobyl has produced a sort of sixth sense or “awareness-plus” among those who share the experience of the disaster.]
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159/abstract
Title: Uncomfortable Heritage & Dark Tourism at Chernobyl
Author: Jose Ramon Perez
Reference: A Reader in Uncomfortable Heritage and Dark Tourism., Edited by Sam Merrill and Leo Schmidt, Department of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, 2008-2009
Keywords: memory, essay
Abstract: [Between October 2008 and March 2009 the Department of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, hosted a study project entitled “Dark Tourism and Uncomfortable Heritage”. It aimed to build on the recent development of the sub-discipline of Dark Tourism Studies and extend the growing and current emphasis of uncomfortable, difficult or sensitive heritage sites within the discipline of Heritage Studies. …From the essay: ‘The first time I ever heard the name Chernobyl I was 14 years old. As a boy growing up in Mexico, I never heard much of the news from the USSR, let alone Ukraine. It was in a short verse by one of my favorite singer-songwriters. He wrote “dark like the sky of Chernobyl”, among two dozen other verses, making grim comparisons to an out-of-love situation. Doing some research, I learned that the event at Chernobyl had been a terrible explosion in a nuclear power station, with widespread, long-lasting and most appalling consequences…’]
URL: http://www.urbain-trop-urbain.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/UHDT_Reader-allege.pdf#page=32
Title: Overexposure: the Chernobyl photographs of David McMillan
Author: Anne Marie Todkill
Reference: CMAJ May 29, 2001 vol. 164 no. 11 1604-1605
Keywords: photography, memory, Canada, museum
Abstract: Winnipeg photographer David McMillan has visited the Chernobyl evacuation zone six times since 1994, recording the solitary decay of this modern Pompeii in a series of images that now form part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.
Title: Chernobyl’s Aftermath in Political Symbols, Monuments and Rituals: Remembering the Disaster in Belarus
Author: Tatiana Kasperski
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Belarus, Chernobyl accident, nuclear disaster, memory, politics
Abstract: In spite of the still on-going health and environmental impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, this tragic event occupies only a minor place in the present-day political life of Belarus, the former Soviet republic most affected by the radioactive fallout. To understand the apparent weakness in public memory of the disaster, this paper provides an analysis of several kinds of commemorative events that have been organized by opposition political forces and by state officials since the end of the 1990s, and of the monuments dedicated to the Chernobyl accident in Belarus. It shows how these different forms of memory contributed to the erasure of the specific meaning of the accident by framing the disaster’s past in terms of a tragedy among other national tragedies, and by reducing it merely to a tool to attack political opponents and legitimize one’s own aspirations to power or by suggesting this past should be overcome as soon as possible.
URL: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2000