Description
This paper explores sites of dememorialisation (Sendyka, 2016) in the Greek border zones of the European Union, with a specific focus on the island of Samos. It focuses on spaces of support and encampment used to house people on the move over the last decade which have been abandoned and returned to the landscape, as well as on spaces of burial of those individuals lost as they attempted perilous journeys to safety. Drawing on the growing literature on hauntology (Fiddler et al, 2022), the paper explores questions of memorialisation and active forgetting drawing on patchwork ethnographic methods (Günel & Watanabe, 2024) including -photography and qualitative interviewing to more deeply understand these spaces and the traces of stories and ephemera within them.
