memoricide
English
Noun
memoricide (countable and uncountable, plural memoricides)
- Alternative spelling of memorycide
- 2001 J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, McGill-Queen’s University Press, p. 14.
- The Canaanites clearly suffered a great evil at the hands of the Jews, who also tried to commit memoricide by casting down the religious structures of Canaan.
- 2015 Nur Masalha, "Settler-Colonialism, Memoricide and Indigenous Toponymic Memory: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place Names by the Israeli State", Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 14(1), pp. 30–31.
- Although continuing some of the pre-Nakba patterns, Zionist toponymic strategies in the post-Nakba period pursued more drastically memoricide and erasure and the detachment of the Palestinians from their history.
- 2021 Scott Webster, "The ‘Palestine poster’ and everyday memoricide: Making killing memory mundane", Human Geography 14(3), p. 346.
- However, memoricide is a phenomenon much broader and more complex than the rubble and ash of its emblematic imagery: Sarajevo’s burning National Library; Afghanistan’s exploded Bamiyan Buddhas; before-and-after satellite images of Syria’s Palmyra.
- 2001 J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, McGill-Queen’s University Press, p. 14.