Museums and Mass Violence

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.

List of contents

List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; I. Mobilizing Memory in the Wake of Atrocity – 1. Remembering and Prosecuting Atrocities in Argentina: The ESMA Memory Museum; 2 Recovering Silenced Pasts: Representation of Racial Violence in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising; 3. Promise and Challenges of Digital Memorialization in Museums; 4. Difficult Knowledge as Bequest: Implementing the “Terrible Gift” in Exhibition at the Former Shingwauk Indian Residential School; II. Designing Exhibitions of Difficult Knowledge – 5.“You’d Have to See It to Believe It”: Commodifying Trauma at a Museum Near You; 6. Designing “Difficult” Exhibitions: Strategic Design for Representing Testimonies of Rrauma; 7. Future Foundations: Designing Around Sites of Trauma and Resilience; 8.Perils of Working with an Inconvenient Truth: Exhibiting Rwandan Hutu Rescuers; III. Encountering Violence and Nonviolence in Museum Collections – 9. “I remember her”: Challenging and Reclaiming Archival Spaces through the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Karine Duhamel, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Canada; 10. Silence or Bravery: Swedish Museums Facing Contemporary Mass Atrocities in China and Myanmar; 11. Picture This: Social Memory and the Tuol Sleng Photographs in Museum, Commercial, and Virtual Spaces; 12. From War Materiel to Peace Pathways: Changing Visions for Global Peace Museums; Afterword; Index.

About the author

Dr. Paul Morrow is a visiting researchfFellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Amy Sodaro is professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, USA.
Dr. Leora Kahn is the Executive Director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice,a non-profit organization that uses visual storytelling for social change.

Summary

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.

Product details

• Authors: Paul (University College Dublin Morrow
• Assisted by: Leora Kahn (Editor), Kahn Leora (Editor), Paul Morrow (Editor), Morrow Paul (Editor), Amy Sodaro (Editor), Sodaro Amy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032605449
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260544-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Rethinking Memory, Representation and Human Rights
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Cultural Studies, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Violence and abuse in society