Curating Difficult Knowledge

Violent Pasts in Public Places

By: C. Milton (Editor), M. Patterson (Editor), E. Lehrer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 November 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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'How to put difficult knowledge on public display is one of the biggest challenges for curators. It is also of major importance in contemporary civic life: what should be said and shown in museums, and how? This raises fascinating and complex intellectual and political questions. This book exposes and tackles these brilliantly through excellent discussion of a wide range of provocative cases. It should be read by anybody concerned with the dilemmas of curating difficult knowledge.' - Sharon Macdonald, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK

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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing
Bearing Witness Between Museums and Communities
'We were so far away': Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools
The Past is a Dangerous Place: the Museum as a Safe Haven
Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as 'Counter-Museum'
Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Center
Visualizing the Past
Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto
Showing and Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent
Visualizing Apartheid: Re-framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art
Materiality and Memorial Challenges
Points of No Return: Cultural Heritage and Counter-Memory in Post-Yugoslavia
Defacing Memory: (Un)tying Peru's Memory Knots
(Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland's Memoryscapes: Nationalism, Religion and Political Economies of Commemoration
Afterward: The Turn to Pedagogy: a Needed Conversation on the Practice of Curating Difficult Knowledge
Index
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Curating Difficult Knowledge

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