This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…
This study discusses selected memories of Marielle Franco from the perspective of the concept of dangerous memory (Johann Baptist Metz). Franco was a Brazilian human-rights activist and city councilor of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated on March 14, 2018. Today she is considered an international symbol in the fight for human, women, and LGBTQ+ rights. This work aims to show what mea…