Memorializing Boat Tragedies in the Mediterranean. The Case of the Katër i Radës

Official DOI (De Gruyter/Berghahn):https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331022-010Full Citation: Salerno, D. (2016). "Memorializing Boat Tragedies in the Mediterranean: The Case of the Katër i Radës". In: Mannik, L. (Ed.), Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 133–153.Version: Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM).Research Overview: > This chapter investigates the memorialization of boat tragedies in the Mediterranean, focusing on the case of the Katër i Radës, an Albanian ship that sank in 1997. It explores how the physical remains of shipwrecks are transformed into monuments and the role of news media and material culture in the construction of a politics of mourning and memory at the European maritime borders.Note on Publication Date: Although the DOI was registered/updated in December 2022 for the digital edition, the work was originally and officially published in 2016. This version corresponds to the first edition of the volume.Official DOI (De Gruyter/Berghahn):https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331022-010This manuscript is shared under the author's self-archiving rights as outlined by Berghahn Books. Full credit is given to the original publisher for the first publication in English.