Traces of Violence

"Traces of Violence is a highly original account of the Paris attacks. The authors show how violence is imprinted on a place, how it lingers, and in no small way test the methods by which we might apprehend these traces."--Todd Meyers, Marjorie Bronfman Chair in the Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University "What does it mean to write in the aftermath of political violence--of sudden and spectacular violence, as well as of enduring, even everyday violence? This book, a 'collection of shadows' surrounding the 2015 Paris attacks, is a searing set of meditations on the impossibility and necessity of writing about disaster. I am extremely grateful to Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih for what they have risked in choosing to write--and to write collaboratively/contrapuntally--in the face of disaster."--Lisa Stevenson, author of Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic