Curating difficult knowledge : violent pasts in public places / edited by Erica Lehrer, Cynthia E. Milton, Monica Eileen Patterson.

Collection type	Library
Author	Lehrer, Erica T.; Milton, Cynthia E.; Patterson, Monica.;
Call Number	Art
Document type	Monograph
Year	2011. 2011.
Pagination	xiii, 219 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm.
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan,
Note	Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place made	Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York : Hou

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Bearing Witness between Museums and Communities -- 1."We were so far away": Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools / Heather Igloliorte -- 2.The Past is a Dangerous Place: The Museum as a Safe Haven / Vivienne Szekeres -- 3.Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as "Counter-Museum" / Monica Eileen Patterson -- 4.Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Centre / Amy S odaro -- pt. II Visualizing the Past -- 5.Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto / Darren Newbury -- 6.Showing and Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent / Tamar Katriel -- 7.Visualizing Apartheid: Re-Framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art / Erin Mosely -- pt. III Materiality and Memorial Challenges -- Contents note continued: 8.Points of No Return: Cultural Heritage and Counter-Memory in Post-Yugoslavia / Andrew Herscher -- 9.Defacing Memory: (Un)tying Peru''s Memory Knots / Cynthia E. Milton -- 10.(Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland''s Mem oryscapes: Nationalism, Religion, and Political Economies of Commemoration / Stawomir Kapralski.