Exhibiting atrocity : memorial museums and the politics of past violence /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sodaro, Amy, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Collective memory.
Crimes against humanity > Museums.
Genocide > Museums.
Historical museums.
Memorialization > Museums.
Political atrocities > Museums.
Mémoire collective.
Crimes contre l'humanité > Musées.
Histoire > Musées.
Commémorations > Musées.
Atrocités politiques > Musées.
history museums (institutions)
Museology and heritage studies Mod Museology and heritage studies.
Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
Museology & heritage studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Collective memory
Historical museums
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Memorial museums: the emergence of a new form
  • The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: the creation of a "living memorial"
  • The House of Terror: "the only one of its kind"
  • The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: building a "lasting peace"
  • The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: "a living museum for Chile's memory"
  • The National September 11 Memorial Museum: "to bear solemn witness"
  • Memorial museums: promises and limits.

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