Robin Ostow

Curating Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Displaying, Combating and Obscuring Human Rights Violations in Museums

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, state and corporate stakeholders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040193976
• Artikelnr.: 72274375

Autorenporträt

Robin Ostow is affiliated with the Sociology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on national museums, Jewish museums, immigration museums and human rights museums in Europe, the Americas and Australia. Most recently, her work has focused on these museums' displays and their relations with the communities around them.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: human rights and the museums that display them; 2.
Displaying the transatlantic slave trade: from cultural nationalism to
universal human rights on the West Coast of Africa. The Maison des
Esclaves, Gorée Island, Senegal 1966-2023; 3. Reimagining citizenship and
human rights in a museum of land restitution: District Six Museum, Cape
Town, South Africa; 4. The Museum as a laboratory for a human rights-based
future: The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK; 5. From containing
memories of past violence to supporting a human rights-based revolution:
The Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile: 2006 -
2023; 6. Corporate citizenship and musealizing human rights: Coca-Cola and
the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, US; 7.
Decolonization and Musealizing Human Rights on the Canadian Prairie: The
Canadian Museum for Human Rights and The Museum for Canadian Human Rights
Violations 2003 - 2023; 8. Human Rights Museums: Their contributions and
achievements in promoting human rights. Their limitations and their
challenges in the coming years