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Memorial Museums - The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities (Hardcover, English)
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Memorial Museums - The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities (Hardcover, English)
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The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of
cultural complex: the memorial museum. These seek to research,
represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful,
violent histories. With World War and Holocaust memorials as
precursors, the kinds of events now recognized include genocide in
Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda and the Balkans, state repression in
Eastern Europe, apartheid in South Africa, terrorism in the United
States, political "disappearances" in Chile and Argentina,
massacres in China and Taiwan, and more. This book is the first of
its kind to "map" these new institutions and cultural spaces,
which, although varying widely in size, style and political
situation, are nonetheless united in their desire to promote peace,
tolerance and the avoidance of future violence. Moving across
nations and contexts, Memorial Museums critically analyzes the
tactics of these institutions and gauges their wider public
significance.
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