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Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums (Hardcover)
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Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums (Hardcover)
Series: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
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This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of
Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about
the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present
and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their
respective emplotment of the Holocaust and seeks to illuminate how,
in this specific setting, memory politics simultaneously function
as future politics because they delineate a normative ideal of the
citizen-subject, its set of values and aspirations for the future:
that of the historically aware human rights advocate. More than an
ethical practice, engaging with the Holocaust is used as a means of
asserting one’s standing on "the right side of history"; the
memorialisation of the Holocaust has thus become a means of
governmentality, a way of governing contemporary citizen-subjects.
The linking of public memory of the Holocaust with the human rights
project is often presented as highly beneficial for all members of
what is often called the "global community". Yet this book argues
that this specific constellation of memory also has the ability to
function as an exercise of power, and thus runs the risk of
reinforcing structural oppression. With its novel theoretical
approach this book not only contributes to Memory Studies but also
connects Holocaust memory to Studies of Global Governmentality and
the debate on decolonising memory politics.
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