Amy Sodaro

Exhibiting Atrocity

Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

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Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592145
• ISBN-10: 0813592143
• Artikelnr.: 50987471

Autorenporträt

AMY SODARO is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. She is coeditor of Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction                         
1          Memorial Museums: The Emergence of a New
Form                                                                   
2          The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Creation of a “Living
Memorial”
3          The House of Terror: “The Only One of Its
Kind”                                              
4          The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: Building a “Lasting Peace”
                                          
5          The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: “A Living Museum for
Chile’s Memory”          
6          The National September 11 Memorial Museum: “To Bear Solemn
Witness”
7          Memorial Museums: Promises and
Limits                                                                            
      
Notes
Bibliography                                                                                                              
    
Index