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The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights

Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2025
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-5322-1 (ISBN)
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Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums

Spanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and memorializing histories of genocide and human rights abuses for a public audience. Museums that link the Holocaust with social justice, human rights, and genocide prevention have been founded in many countries—for example, the Kazerne Dossin Memorial Museum in Belgium, the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre in South Africa—making Holocaust and human rights museums a global phenomenon. It is not uncommon for these institutions to court controversy by linking the Holocaust to human rights issues in their locales and abroad. Some begin from a “Holocaust core” and extrapolate from this history to address broader concerns, while others integrate the Holocaust as “a” or, at times, “the” case study par excellence of human rights abuses. Other institutions that may not explicitly focus on the Holocaust continue to engage these representational practices to highlight other instances of genocide and human rights abuses.

The case studies in this book illuminate the convergences between Holocaust and human rights museums in their demands for social justice and reparation, educational and activist purpose, design principles, and curatorial choices. But it also shows how these museums can also be sites of contestation around how stories of suffering, courage, and survival are told; whose stories are prioritized; and who is consulted. Although Holocaust museums were once the most influential form of representation of human rights issues in the international museum and heritage fields, they are now in dialogue—visually, spatially, methodologically—with museums and memorial sites concerned with human rights more broadly. Interrogating debates in both museology and Holocaust memory studies, this volume reveals how institutions dedicated to these concerns have become active and influential contributors to local, national, and transnational dialogues about human rights.

Contributors: Avril Alba, Brook Andrew, Jennifer Barrett, Jennifer Carter, Danielle Celermajer, Steven Cooke, Donna-Lee Frieze, Shirli Gilbert, Sulamith Graefenstein, Christoph Hanzig, Vannessa Hearman, Rosanne Kennedy, Marcia Langton, Edwina Light, Wendy Lipworth, A. Dirk Moses, Tali Nates, Jessica Neath, Michael Robertson, Amy Sodaro, Garry Walter.

Jennifer Barrett is Professor in Museum Studies and the director of the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney. Avril Alba is Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation, and chair of the Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies Department, at the University of Sydney. A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Zusatzinfo 44 b&w illus.
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-8122-5322-1 / 0812253221
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-5322-1 / 9780812253221
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