Human Rights Museums : Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice
Issued Date
Copyright Date
2023
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Language
eng
Book
Book
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application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
204
ISBN
9781472441171
Rights Holder(s)
สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
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Other Contributor(s)
Abstract
Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum. Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human rights museums across Asia and Latin America, the book adopts a broad museological approach. It does so by including national and community museums, as well as public and private museological initiatives, within its purview. Drawing on in-depth case studies about museums in Taiwan, Japan, Paraguay and Colombia - all discussed within their political and cultural contexts - the book examines the paradigmatic shift that has occurred within the museum field in the wake of the larger global transformations that have shaped contemporary geopolitics over the last 50 years. The diversity of geographical and political contexts, and the attention to lesser-known institutions within the canon of English museum studies literature, presents readers with a valuable opportunity to learn more about innovative museological models in non-English-speaking and non-Western contexts. Human Rights Museums will appeal to academics, scholars and students of museum studies and related disciplines, and to museum professionals seeking to know more about the diverse and evolving roles of museums in contemporary society
Table of contents
List of figures ix--Notes on contributors xiii--Disclaimer xv--Acknowledgements JENNIFER CARTER xvii--Introduction: tracing the trajectory of rights in museums JENNIFER CARTER
1--The duty of memory, the imperative of justice and the rise of human rights museums
JENNIFER CARTER 17--Confronting discrimination with museology: Liberty Osaka and the emergence of human rights museums in Japan JENNIFER CARTER AND JENNIFER ORANGE 50--Memory, symbols and rendering at the National Human Rights Museum in Taiwan: activating cultural approaches to transitional justice JENNIFER CARTER AND CHIA-LI CHEN 89--Human rights museums in Latin America: where memory and human rights coalesce JENNIFER CARTER AND MARÍA JULIANA ANGARITA 129--Museums, justice and planetary change JENNIFER CARTER 167--Conclusion: reconciling memory and justice in relation to museum work JENNIFER CARTER 192--Index 199