298 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Museums, Memory and Human Rights examines how transregional Holocaust memory and the associated duty to remember shape museum commemorations of violent pasts and their aspirational visions of cosmopolitan justice, responsibility, and political community building.
Bringing museum studies and memory studies together, the book draws on in-depth case study analyses of four human rights museums... Read more
- Introduction: Transregional Holocaust Memory, Neoliberal Subjectification, and Cosmopolitanism in the Human Rights Museum
- Conceptual Preliminaries: Narratives of the Past, Neoliberal Subjectification and a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Representation
- Human Rights and Neoliberalism in Museums
- Human Rights and Holocaust Memory in Museums
- The Memory Imperative in Western Europe: Holocaust Representation at Kazerne Dossin – Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights in Mechelen, Belgium
- The Memory Imperative in Canada: Settler Colonialism at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada
- The Memory Imperative in the United States: Racial Segregation and the Civil Rights Movement at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, United States
- A Grassroots-Approach to the Memory Imperative in Asia: The ‘Comfort Women’ Past at the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum in Seoul, South Korea
- Building Cosmopolitan Communities? Difficult Memories, Neoliberal Subjectification, and Human Rights in Museums in Belgium, the United States, Canada, and South Korea
- Conclusion.
Biography
Sulamith Graefenstein is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. She has undertaken research in Belgium, Austria, Canada, the United States, and South Korea. Her work in memory studies and museum studies focuses on developing an understanding of how human rights museums advance notions of (trans)national justice and cosmopolitan solidarity in an era of circulating Holocaust memory and human rights.
