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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sodaro, Amy, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.