Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
PART I: Museums, politics and persuasion
Introduction: memory, politics and human rights
Memory and human rights
Museums and sites of memory
Sites of persuasion
Promises and perils of sites of persuasion
Outline of chapters
Notes
References
1. Selective memory: memorial museums, human rights, and the politics of victimhood
The ethics of remembrance
Memorial museums as sites of persuasion
Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Rwanda
Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile
National September
11 Memorial Museum, NewYork, USA
The politics of victimhood
Notes
References
PART II: Writing national histories
2. Between traditional and modern museology: exhibiting national history in the Museum of Georgia
Introduction
History and museology in Georgia
National narrative and persuasion in the Museum of Georgia
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. Curating enslavement and the colonial history of Denmark: the 2017 centennial
The background
Public debate in the run-up to transferday
Challenging a
distanced audience
Respecting victims and descendants
The Workers Museum (Arbejdermuseet): Stop Slavery!
The Royal Library (Det Kgl. Bibliotek): Blind Spots—images of
the Danish West Indies Colony
The Maritime Museum: Vestindien Revisited
Did the museums move the audience?
Notes
References
4. Kosovo’s NEWBORN monument: persuasion, contestation, and the narrative constructions of past and future
Background
Breaking with the past? Kosovo’s new symbolic landscape
The newborn narrative and the vision for the future
The legacy of the past: the pan-Albanian narrative
Conclusion: present realities
Notes
References
PART III: Displaying difficult pasts
5. “Inspiration lives here”: struggle, martyrdom, and redemption in Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Situating the CCHR within the emergence of African American museums and sites
Beginnings: inspiration lives here!
“The high church of doing the right thing”: inspiration and taking action
“Rolls Down Like Water”: the American Civil Rights Movement
Asite of persuasion: staging public history of the Civil Rights Movement
Notes
References
6. The Sơn Mỹ Memorial and Museum: a continuous memorial service to remember and bear witness to the 1968 Mỹ Lai Massacre
Introduction
The Sơn Mỹ Memorial and Museum: origins and development
Bearing witness at the scene of the massacre
Memories of first-hand witness bearers
Witness-bearing at the massacre anniversary memorial services
The role of bearing witness for sites of persuasion
Notes
References
7. Memory as persuasion: historical discourse and moral messages at Peru’s Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion
Museum, “place,” and the problem of inclusion
Aconsultation process
Memory as persuasion in the permanent exhibition
Notes
References
PART IV: Resistance through memory
8. Mexico City’s Memorial to the Victims of Violence and the façade of participation
The “War on Drugs” and Calderón’s memorial
“A seized memorial”: Comité 68’s intervention
Façades of participation
Notes
References
9. Narratives of ethnic and political conflict in Burundian sites of persuasion
The Mausoleum of Rwagasore and the Monument to the
Unknown Soldier: commemorating ethnic violence of the 1960s
and 70s
The Cemetery of Melchior Ndadaye: the early 1990s and the decade of genocides
The Kibimba Memorial: the late 1990s and the emergence of genocide memorials
The “monument to weapons”: the 2000s and memorializing collective ethnic suffering
Conclusion
Notes
References
Conclusion
References
Works cited
Index