List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword, Steven Luckert, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA
Introduction
I. Mobilizing Memory in the Wake of Atrocity
1. Remembering and Prosecuting Atrocities in Argentina: The ESMA Memory Museum, Susana Kaiser, University of San Francisco, USA
2. Recovering Silenced Pasts: Representation of Racial Violence in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising, Amy Sodaro, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, USA
3. Promise and Challenges of Digital Memorialization in Museums, David Simon, Yale University, USA
4. Difficult Knowledge as Bequest: Implementing the “Terrible Gift” in Exhibition at the Former Shingwauk Indian Residential School, Trina Cooper-Bolam, Concordia University, Canada
II. Designing Exhibitions of Difficult Knowledge
5. “You’d Have to See It to Believe It”: Commodifying Trauma at a Museum Near You, Calinda Lee, Sources Cultural Resources Management, LLC, USA
6. Designing “Difficult” Exhibitions: Strategic Design for Representing Testimonies of Rrauma, Willhemina Wahlin, University of Melbourne, Australia
7. Future Foundations: Designing Around Sites of Trauma and Resilience, Dayton Schroeter, Smithgroup, USA
8. Perils of Working with an Inconvenient Truth: Exhibiting Rwandan Hutu Rescuers, Leora Kahn, PROOF: Media for Social Justice, USA
III. Encountering Violence and Nonviolence in Museum Collections
9. “I remember her”: Challenging and Reclaiming Archival Spaces through the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Karine Duhamel, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Canada
10. Silence or Bravery: Swedish Museums Facing Contemporary Mass Atrocities in China and Myanmar, Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University, USA
11. Picture This: Social Memory and the Tuol Sleng Photographs in Museum, Commercial, and Virtual Spaces, Eve Zucker, Center for Khmer Studies, Yale University, USA
12. From War Materiel to Peace Pathways: Changing Visions for Global Peace Museums, Paul Morrow, Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, USA
Afterword: Do we need to decolonize museums of mass violence?, Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada
Index
Biography
Dr. Paul Morrow is a visiting researchfFellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Amy Sodaro is professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, USA.
Dr. Leora Kahn is the Executive Director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice,a non-profit organization that uses visual storytelling for social change.
