Exhibiting Atrocity : Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sodaro, Amy, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2017
New Brunswick, NJ : [2018]
Materias:
Collective memory.
Crimes against humanity > Museums.
Political atrocities > Museums.
Genocide > Museums.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422306906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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