Curating difficult knowledge

Description:

Much of the literature on post-violent contexts addresses problems of transitional justice, memory studies, and post-conflict reconciliation.€This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, situating itself creatively amidst these discussions but building upon the literatures of museum and heritage studies.€The contributors (themselves€practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics) draw from a broad range of geographical and theoretical material, €and€explore new ways of bearing witness vis-a-vis curatorial practice, heritage work and memorializing the past, to examine the challenges and limitations of such endeavors.

subjects: Crimes against humanity,  Political atrocities,  Exhibitions,  HISTORY / Social History,  Museums,  ART / Museum Studies,  Museum exhibits,  Curatorship,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies,  Vergangenheitsbewältigung,  Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit,  Politisches Delikt,  Museumsverwaltung,  Museumspädagogik,  Menschenrechtsverletzung,  Kollektives Gedächtnis,  ART,  Museum Studies,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Violence in Society,  Museums & museology,  History of ideas,  Material culture,  Libraries and Museums