Curating difficult knowledge: violent pasts in public places

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. ERICA LEHRER is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is author of 'Jewish Heritage in Poland: Navigating the Difficult Past in a Tourist Landscape' (2012), and has undertaken experimental curatorial work on Jewish heritage and memory in post-Communist Poland. CYNTHIA E. MILTON is Canada Research Chair inLatin American History and Associate Professor in the Département d'histoire at the Université de Montréal, Canada. She is author of 'The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador' (2007), editor of 'The Arts of Truth-telling in Post-Shining Path Peru', and co-editor of 'The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule' (2005).MONICA EILEEN PATTERSON is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is the author of numerous publications, and co-editorof 'Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline' (2010). INDICE: List of Illustrations - List of Maps - Acknowledgements - Notes onContributors - Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing;' E.Lehrer' &' C.E.Milton - 'PART I: BEARING WITNESS BETWEEN MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES - 'We were so faraway': Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools; 'H.Igloliorte - 'The Past is a Dangerous Place: the Museum as a Safe Haven; 'V.Szekeres - 'Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as 'Counter-Museum'; 'M.E.Patterson - 'Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Center; 'A.Sodaro - 'PART II: VISUALIZING THE PAST - Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto; 'D.Newbury - 'Showingand Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent; 'T.Katriel - 'Visualizing Apartheid: Re-framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art; 'E.Mosely - 'PART III: MATERIALITY AND MEMORIAL CHALLENGES - Points of No Return: Cultural Heritage and Counter-Memory in Post-Yugoslavia; 'A.Herscher - 'Defacing Memory: (Un)tying Peru's Memory Knots; 'C.E.Milton - '(Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland's Memoryscapes: Nationalism, Religion and Political Economies of Commemoration; 'S.Kapralski -'Afterward: The Turn to Pedagogy: a Needed Conversation on the Practice of Curating Difficult Knowledge; 'R.I.Simon - 'Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29672-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 232
• Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés