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For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory
studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself
hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past,
this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent
scholars who bring the future into the study of memory.
Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and
memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights,
democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the
potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation,
the book also shows that there are perils in the selective memory
and history that they present. Examining a range of museums,
memorials and exhibits in places as varied as Burundi, Denmark,
Georgia, Kosovo, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam and the US, this volume
demonstrates how they represent and try to come to terms with
difficult histories. As sites of persuasion, the contributors to
this book argue, their public goal is to use memory and education
about the past to provide moral lessons to visitors that will
encourage a more democratic and peaceful future. However, the case
studies also demonstrate how political, economic and social
realities often undermine this lofty goal, raising questions about
how these sites of persuasion actually function on a daily basis.
Straddling several interdisciplinary fields of research and study,
Museums and Sites of Persuasion will be essential reading for those
working in the fields of museum studies, memory studies, and
genocide studies. It will also be essential reading for museum
practitioners and anyone engaged in the study of history,
sociology, political science, anthropology and art history.
Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and
memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights,
democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the
potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation,
the book also shows that there are perils in the selective memory
and history that they present. Examining a range of museums,
memorials and exhibits in places as varied as Burundi, Denmark,
Georgia, Kosovo, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam and the US, this volume
demonstrates how they represent and try to come to terms with
difficult histories. As sites of persuasion, the contributors to
this book argue, their public goal is to use memory and education
about the past to provide moral lessons to visitors that will
encourage a more democratic and peaceful future. However, the case
studies also demonstrate how political, economic and social
realities often undermine this lofty goal, raising questions about
how these sites of persuasion actually function on a daily basis.
Straddling several interdisciplinary fields of research and study,
Museums and Sites of Persuasion will be essential reading for those
working in the fields of museum studies, memory studies, and
genocide studies. It will also be essential reading for museum
practitioners and anyone engaged in the study of history,
sociology, political science, anthropology and art history.
For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory
studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself
hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past,
this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent
scholars who bring the future into the study of memory.
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 memorial museum as a new
cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to
come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy
and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro
uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that
commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological
and global examination of the trend: the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest; the
Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and
Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11
Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies
illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the
memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of
commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies
around the world.
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