Abstract
Abstract: After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, killing sites were preserved as memorials to maintain evidence of crimes for public viewing. Rather than be seen as exceptional, those engagements in memory justice activism comprise part of a larger "era of trauma heritage" emerging largely from the Global South in the late twentieth century and continuing today. Trauma heritage refers to spatialized memories of violence that have been systematically marginalized or hidden. These are sites of truth-telling that aim to enact change in the contexts of impunity and gross negligence that they resist. But they are inordinately hard to see, both for those who are close and at a distance. Reflecting from Rwanda, this article engages the tensions inherent to trauma heritage and their potential as sites of repair.
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