Rethinking Memory, Representation and Human Rights – serie
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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
562 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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.Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners and a transnational set of case studies, this volume explores the potential of museums to contribute to social justice in the contemporary era. At the same time, it directs attention to the perils these institutions face when they curate and exhibit “difficult” knowledge concerning genocide, mass killing, and other kinds of atrocity crimes. The question of how museums shape historical understanding of political oppression, particularly within the political, social, and economic contexts in which they operate, is another major issue addressed by this volume. Asking for whom, exactly, “difficult histories” are difficult, contributors to this volume also ask the hard question of what museum professionals should do when the “terrible gift” they offer visitors through exhibits detailing historical episodes of mass violence are met not with horror, but with indifference – or worse, approval.Providing comparative discussion of the perils and potential of exhibiting atrocities in countries as diverse as Sweden, Argentina, Rwanda, and Canada, Museums and Mass Violence will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, memory, ethics, genocide, trauma, heritage, social justice, culture, and human rights.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 395 kr
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Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, state and corporate stakeholders.Drawing upon ethnographic and archival research on seven human rights museums in six countries, Ostow examines specifically what these museums do when they set out, or purport, to promote human rights. This includes the stories they visualize, display strategies, educational and other activities, internal structures, the way they position their visitors, the parameters of the human rights they address and the politics of pleasing their multiple stakeholders. The book also explores the contradictions and political and corporate pressure that contributes to foregrounding some human rights violations and ignoring or obscuring others. Ostow also examines the reactions to each museum in the local and national press, and by local visitors, politicians, donors and other stakeholders. The book ends with a discussion of the success and limitations of museums for promoting human rights, and policy recommendations to enhance their effectiveness. Curating Human Rights considers whether these museums are appropriate for, and effective at, promoting human rights - and if they address the pitfalls that have been identified.Curating Human Rights provides new perspectives on the field of human rights education and activism and will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, human rights, culture and communication.
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
673 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, state and corporate stakeholders.Drawing upon ethnographic and archival research on seven human rights museums in six countries, Ostow examines specifically what these museums do when they set out, or purport, to promote human rights. This includes the stories they visualize, display strategies, educational and other activities, internal structures, the way they position their visitors, the parameters of the human rights they address and the politics of pleasing their multiple stakeholders. The book also explores the contradictions and political and corporate pressure that contributes to foregrounding some human rights violations and ignoring or obscuring others. Ostow also examines the reactions to each museum in the local and national press, and by local visitors, politicians, donors and other stakeholders. The book ends with a discussion of the success and limitations of museums for promoting human rights, and policy recommendations to enhance their effectiveness. Curating Human Rights considers whether these museums are appropriate for, and effective at, promoting human rights - and if they address the pitfalls that have been identified.Curating Human Rights provides new perspectives on the field of human rights education and activism and will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, human rights, culture and communication.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
691 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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.Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners and a transnational set of case studies, this volume explores the potential of museums to contribute to social justice in the contemporary era. At the same time, it directs attention to the perils these institutions face when they curate and exhibit “difficult” knowledge concerning genocide, mass killing, and other kinds of atrocity crimes. The question of how museums shape historical understanding of political oppression, particularly within the political, social, and economic contexts in which they operate, is another major issue addressed by this volume. Asking for whom, exactly, “difficult histories” are difficult, contributors to this volume also ask the hard question of what museum professionals should do when the “terrible gift” they offer visitors through exhibits detailing historical episodes of mass violence are met not with horror, but with indifference – or worse, approval.Providing comparative discussion of the perils and potential of exhibiting atrocities in countries as diverse as Sweden, Argentina, Rwanda, and Canada, Museums and Mass Violence will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, memory, ethics, genocide, trauma, heritage, social justice, culture, and human rights.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 634 kr
Kommande
Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Black communities remember and commemorate their histories. In doing so, the volume demonstrates how Black activism, critical scholarship, and local memory practices combine to identify and enact new perspectives on memory landscapes in the USA and across the globe.From museums and memorials in commemorative landscapes to everyday lived landscapes and spaces where stories circulate, remembered Black stories express resilience, community, and hope among memory landscapes often dominated by hegemonic histories. Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance presents a broad array of powerful stories and interrogates how they challenge and extend traditional understandings of memory landscapes. The volume covers a wide range of topics, from legacies of slavery to the Civil Rights Movement and contemporary issues of racial justice, and features case studies based on traditional commemorative landscapes like Freedom Park in North Carolina and New York City’s African Burial Ground, as well as new locations such as the Paul Robeson House and Museum in Philadelphia. Featuring both established and emerging scholars of Black public memory from a range of disciplines, Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance examines how stories of Black history have emerged in commemorative landscapes, are appearing in new commemorative locations, have surfaced in other spaces of memory, and are intertwined with the African diaspora.The volume offers a wide-ranging analysis for those who wish to understand how memory continues to resonate among Black Americans as a form of commemoration, a means of organising, and a source of inspiration. This volume will therefore be of interest to researchers, academics and students with interests in memory and heritage, African American studies, and the history of the USA.