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Author:   Amy Sodaro
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780813592138

ISBN 10:   0813592135
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   23 January 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction                          1          Memorial Museums: The Emergence of a New Form                                                                    2          The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Creation of a “Living Memorial” 3          The House of Terror: “The Only One of Its Kind”                                               4          The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: Building a “Lasting Peace”                                            5          The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: “A Living Museum for Chile’s Memory”           6          The National September 11 Memorial Museum: “To Bear Solemn Witness” 7          Memorial Museums: Promises and Limits                                                                                    Notes Bibliography                                                                                                                    Index  

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This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century Sodaro examines how many communities, be they groups or countries, work through staggering events like 9/11 by building museums to parse through them. --SUM Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists. --Midwest Book Review

-This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years.---Jay Winter -co-editor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century -

-This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years.---Jay Winter -co-editor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century - This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums

This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists. --Midwest Book Review Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums

This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century Sodaro examines how many communities, be they groups or countries, work through staggering events like 9/11 by building museums to parse through them. --SUM Exhibiting Atrocity sets a precedent that will allow researchers and visitors to recognize these museums for the political projects that they really are - neither good nor bad but always potentially very dangerous. The greatest danger inherent in the ways in which memorial museums exhibit atrocity is that they routinely fail to expose the fragility, vulnerability and precariousness of political systems and norms. This leaves us vulnerable to manipulation, demagoguery, and the authoritarian personalities lying in wait. --European Journal of Cultural and Political Socioloy An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists. --Midwest Book Review Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums

An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists.

Author Information

AMY SODARO is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. She is coeditor of Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Culture.

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