Curating difficult knowledge
Subtitle: violent pasts in public places
By: edited by Erica Lehrer, Cynthia E. Milton,  Monica Eileen Patterson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780230296725
Subjects: Crimes against humanity; Political atrocities; Exhibitions; HISTORY / Social History; Museums; ART / Museum Studies; Museum exhibits; Curatorship; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: Much of the literature on post-violent contexts addresses problems of transitional justice, memory studies, and post-conflict reconciliation.€This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, situating itself creatively amidst these discussions but building upon the literatures of museum and heritage studies.€The contributors (themselves€practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics) draw from a broad range of geographical and theoretical material, €and€explore new ways of bearing witness vis-a-vis curatorial practice, heritage work and memorializing the past, to examine the challenges and limitations of such endeavors.