Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence /

Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the me...

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Hovedforfatter: Sodaro, Amy, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 1. Memorial museums : the emergence of a new form
  • 2. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : the creation of a "living memorial"
  • 3. The House of Terror : "the only one of its kind"
  • 4. The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre : building a "lasting peace"
  • 5. The Museum of Memory and Human Rights : "a living museum for Chile's memory"
  • 6. The National September 11 Memorial Museum : "to bear solemn witness"
  • 7. Memorial museums : promises and limits.