Memory as ‘Temporal Loop’ in the War on Terror: Using the Past to Secure the Future (and Failing)
摘要
Our chapter reflects on how commemorationCommemoration and ‘the past’ have become implicated within national security practices which anticipate and act upon future insecurityInsecurity. Across public inquiries, coroners’ investigations and memorialisation, there is an in-built assumption that societies (and security practitioners) should be able to learn from disastrous events.