1st Edition

Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11 Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum

By Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas Copyright 2021
208 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller. Memorial Museums are evocative spaces. Drawing on aesthetic practices deeply rooted in representing the ‘unrepresentability’ of cultural trauma, most notably the Holocaust, Memorial Museums are powerful, popular mediums for establishing... Read more

Introduction

Part I: 9/11 Memory in Situ

Chapter 1. Manic Memories, Contested Meanings of Place

Chapter 2. Affective Pedagogies, Emotional Learning

Part II: 9/11 Memory ex Situ

Chapter 3. Trauma after 9/11: Holocaust Memorial Lessons

Chapter 4. 9/11 Memory and the "Trauma Economy"

Conclusions: Towards Non-Violent Archives of 9/11 Memory

Epilogue: Affective Heritage and 9/11 Memory in the Age of Trump

Biography

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas is an Assistant Professor of Museum Studies and Public History at the University of Central Oklahoma, where she also directs the Graduate Program in Museum Studies. She is co-editor of Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage (Routledge 2021).