Verkkothe challenges of evaluating the impact of memorialization in societies in transition’, the international journal of transitional justice 4, no. Verkkoby engaging literature on the rhetoric of memorials and pragmatist aesthetics, we argue that memorialization involves a range of important ethical choices in who is. Verkkothis chapter begins by defining memorialization, memorials, and commemoration and explores why memorials have become a viable option—for communities, nations,. Verkkowhat memories do we seek to preserve and how? In whose name do we act? How much memory is useful, particularly in cases of mass murder and genocide? Verkkothis paper draws attention to the contributions of memory sites to social memory and urban identity, and then points out the effects of designing. Verkkothe second strand in fact revolves around the efforts to actively create a cultural memory of partition through formalized forms of remembrance and.