Curating difficult knowledge : violent pasts in public places / edited by Erica Lehrer, Cynthia E. Milton, Monica Eileen Patterson.
Author(s): Milton, Cynthia E. | Lehrer, Erica T.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Curating difficult knowledge : violent pasts in public places
- Author(s)
- Lehrer, Erica T.
Milton, Cynthia E. - Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Collation
- xiii, 219 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map
23 cm. - Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
- ISBN
- 9780230296725
- Dewey Class
- 303.6075
- Contents
- Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing / Erica Lehrer (et al.) -- “We were so far away”: Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools / Heather Igloliorte -- The Past is a Dangerous Place: The Museum as a Safe Haven / Vivienne Szekeres -- Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as “Counter-Museum” / Monica Eileen Patterson -- Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Centre / Amy Sodaro -- Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto / Darren Newbury -- Showing and Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent / Tamar Katriel -- Visualizing Apartheid: Re-Framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art / Erin Mosely -- Points of No Return: Cultural Heritage and Counter-Memory in Post-Yugoslavia / Andrew Herscher -- Defacing Memory: (Un)tying Peru’s Memory Knots / Cynthia E. Milton -- (Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland’s Memoryscapes: Nationalism, Religion, and Political Economies of Commemoration / Sławomir Kapralski -- Afterword: The Turn to Pedagogy: A Needed Conversation on the Practice of Curating Difficult Knowledge / Roger I. Simon.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Museums -- Curatorship.
Political atrocities -- Exhibitions. - BRN
- 5424
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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303.6075 CUR
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