Paul Williams

Memorial Museums

The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Memorial museums seek to research, represent, commemorate and teach on the subject of dreadful, violent histories. This book analyzes the tactics of these institutions and gauges their public significance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 177mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781845204884
• ISBN-10: 1845204883
• Artikelnr.: 23311936

Autorenporträt

Paul Williams is an Assistant Professor in Museum Studies at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Very Different Proposition: Introducing the Memorial Museum
2. The Surviving Object: Presence and Absence in Memorial Museums
3. Photographic Memory: Commemorating Calamitous Events through Images
4. Rocks and Hard Places: Location and Spatiality in Memorial Museums
5. A Diplomatic Assignment: The Political Fortunes of Memorial Museums
6. The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and
Responsibility
7. Looming Disaster: Memorial Museums and the Shaping of Historic
Consciousness
8. Conclusion: Fighting the Forgetful Future