Jennifer Carter

Human Rights Museums (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317092797
• Artikelnr.: 64437721

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Carter is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and interfaculty graduate Museology programmes at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada. A core area of her research investigates the global phenomenon of human rights museology, and considers how historical and social justice are negotiated curatorially and pedagogically in cultural institutions dedicated to human rights in different geo-cultural and political contexts around the world. She earned her PhD at McGill University in Montréal and has published her research widely in English and French.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tracing the trajectory of rights in museums; Chapter 1. The
duty of memory, the imperative of justice and the rise of human rights
museums; Chapter 2. Confronting discrimination with museology: Liberty
Osaka and the emergence of human rights museums in Japan; Chapter 3.
Memory, symbols and rendering at the National Human Rights Museum in
Taiwan: activating cultural approaches to transitional justice; Chapter 4.
Human rights museums in Latin America: where memory and human rights
coalesce; Chapter 5. Museums, justice and planetary change; Conclusion:
reconciling memory and justice in relation to museum work; Index.

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Introduction: Tracing the trajectory of rights in museums; Chapter 1. The duty of memory, the imperative of justice and the rise of human rights museums; Chapter 2. Confronting discrimination with museology: Liberty Osaka and the emergence of human rights museums in Japan; Chapter 3. Memory, symbols and rendering at the National Human Rights Museum in Taiwan: activating cultural approaches to transitional justice; Chapter 4. Human rights museums in Latin America: where memory and human rights coalesce; Chapter 5. Museums, justice and planetary change; Conclusion: reconciling memory and justice in relation to museum work; Index.