Abstract
As we close this volume, life under the pandemic has foregrounded various coping mechanisms that include individual and collective efforts to remember or forget pain. How each community experiences those events and emotions vary greatly.
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In 2014, Britain joined the EU Joint Procurement Programme, but under the Brexit withdrawal agreement, Britain was still able to take part in the joint programme until 31 December 2020.
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This is a reference to an interview given by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, when he suggested that there were various theories that needed to be seriously considered. One of them was that people should be prepared to accept that the virus must be allowed to spread (‘herd immunity’), and that the population would simply ‘get it over and done with’ or ‘take it on the chin’ (Vaughan 2020).
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This is a reference to patriotic stances that emerged in several parts of the country when the movie Dunkirk was released in 2017.
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Associating clapping with Britishness was an argument used by far-right supporters.
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day is a national day of commemoration that is marked annually in the United Kingdom (as well as across Europe) on 8 May since 1945.
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Echoing the piece on commemoration practices, see: Otele (2015).
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Including the Rhodes Must Fall (2015–), Black Lives Matter (2013–), Faidherbe Doit Tomber!, and Coordination Action Autonome Noire movements, and the Association Internationale Mémoires et Partages (1998–).
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Otele, O., Gandolfo, L., Galai, Y. (2021). Afterword: Mourning, Memorialising, and Absence in the Covid-19 Era. In: Otele, O., Gandolfo, L., Galai, Y. (eds) Post-Conflict Memorialization. Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54887-2_12
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