Description
The papers on this panel investigate the ways that states, groups, and/or individuals grapple with crises that produce ontological insecurity, the social processes that repair identity-ruptures and rehabilitate ontological security, and the memorializations that preserve the memory and examine the scars of insecurity. These are all constructive social processes that occur intentionally and inadvertently, but serve vital roles in observing, examining, and celebrating survival in face of crises. These papers cover a variety of social contexts and cases by which ontological insecurity has been addressed and overcome by way of memory, emotion, and praxis.
