Muzeum-cmentarz. Kilka uwag o (infra)strukturalnej przemocy
The Museum-Cemetery: Some Notes on (Infra)Structural Violence

Summary/Abstract: Examining Polish sites of memory and museums established on the grounds of former Nazi death camps, Dziuban proposes that practices dealing with human remains ought to be reconceptualised in terms of necroviolence: violence against human remains. The museum-cemetery is defined here as a politically productive infrastructure that instantiates a material articulation of hierarchies and social norms as well as structural violence in which human remains become objects of subjectification/desubjectification, dehumanisation and exclusion. Analysing the postwar history of Polish sites of memory dedicated to the Holocaust and the practices and infrastructural transformations that arise around them – practices and transformations that include grave robbery, archaeological research and work on commemoration – Dziuban discusses different forms of necroviolence that affect dead bodies as forms of subjectivity susceptible to violence, from immediate physical violence to the violence of abandonment.

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