Disturbing pasts

Introduction: Disturbing pasts: memories, controversies and creativity - Leon Wainwright Part 1: Difficult pasts and public space 1 Echoes of the Great War: the recordings of African prisoners in the First World War - Annette Hoffmann 2 'A riot of our own': a reflection on agency - Carol Tulloch 3 The exhibition 'Namibia-Germany: a shared/divided history'. Resistance, violence, memory - Clara Himmelheber 4 Break! On the unpleasant, the marginal, the taboo and the controversial in Norwegian museums - Liv Ramskjaer 5 Making meaning from a fragmented past: 1897 and the creative process - Peju Layiwola 6 Mallaby's car: colonial subjects, imperial actors, and the representation of human suffering in postcolonial exhibitions - Susan Legene Part 2: Visual investigations 7 Comments on the art and research project 'The division of the earth: tableaux on the legal synopses of the Berlin Africa conference' - Dierk Schmidt and Malte Jaguttis 8 Late photography, military landscapes and the politics of memory - Simon Faulkner 9 Forced displacement, suffering and the aesthetics of loss - Maruska Svasek 10 Nuclear war as false memory - John Timberlake Part 3: Collaborations 11 I miss you, Jew! - Rafal Betlejewski 12 Spatial dialogues and the memory of absent Jews in contemporary Polish art: Yael Bartana, Rafal Betlejewski and Joanna Rajkowska - Uilleam Blacker 13 Margit Ellinor: forgotten images - Bente Geving 14 A comment on contemporary Sami art - Sigrid Lien 15 Troubled traces: painting and displaying intercultural traumas of Aboriginality - Heather Kamarra Shearer 16 Empowering art: reconfiguring narratives of trauma and hope in the Australian national imaginary - Fiona Magowan Index