Curating Difficult Knowledge [electronic resource] : Violent Pasts in Public Places /
Lehrer, E.editor.
Milton, C.editor.
Patterson, M.editor.
This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing; Part I: Bearing Witness between Museums and Communities; 1 ""We were so far away"": Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools; 2 The Past is a Dangerous Place: The Museum as a Safe Haven; 3 Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: TheJim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as ""Counter-Museum""; 4 Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Centre; Part II: Visualizing the Past
5 Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto6 Showing and Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent; 7 Visualizing Apartheid: Re-Framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art; Part III: Materiality and Memorial Challenges; 8 Points of No Return: Cultural Heritage and Counter-Memory in Post-Yugoslavia; 9 Defacing Memory: (Un)tying Peru's Memory Knots
10 (Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland's Memoryscapes: Nationalism, Religion, and Political Economies of CommemorationAfterword: The Turn to Pedagogy: A Needed Conversation on the Practice of Curating Difficult Knowledge; Index; Color Plates
This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.
Arts.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
Communication.
Intellectual life—History.
Cultural studies.
Arts.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Media Studies.
Intellectual Studies.
Cultural Studies.