Overview
Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies Association Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend: the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest, Hungary; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world. Download open access ebook.
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Author: Amy Sodaro
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.426kg
ISBN: 9780813592145
ISBN 10: 0813592143
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 23 January 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century Sodaro examines how many communities, be they groups or countries, work through staggering events like 9/11 by building museums to parse through them. --SUM Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists. --Midwest Book Review
-This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years.---Jay Winter -co-editor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century - This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums
An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists.
This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists. --Midwest Book Review Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums
This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century Sodaro examines how many communities, be they groups or countries, work through staggering events like 9/11 by building museums to parse through them. --SUM Exhibiting Atrocity sets a precedent that will allow researchers and visitors to recognize these museums for the political projects that they really are - neither good nor bad but always potentially very dangerous. The greatest danger inherent in the ways in which memorial museums exhibit atrocity is that they routinely fail to expose the fragility, vulnerability and precariousness of political systems and norms. This leaves us vulnerable to manipulation, demagoguery, and the authoritarian personalities lying in wait. --European Journal of Cultural and Political Socioloy An original and unique study...Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists. --Midwest Book Review Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists. --Joyce Apsel author of Introducing Peace Museums
This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years. --Jay Winter co-editor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
Author Information
AMY SODARO is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. She is coeditor of Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Culture.
