Museums and sites of persuasion : politics, memory and human rights

CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Memory, Politics and Human Rights
PART I – Museums, Politics and Persuasion
1 Selective Memory: Memorial Museums, Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood

PART II – Writing National Histories
2 Between Traditional and Modern Museology: Exhibiting National History in the Museum of Georgia
3 Curating Enslavement and the Colonial History of Denmark: The 2017 Centennial
4 Kosovo’s NEWBORN Monument: Persuasion, Contestation, and the Narrative Constructions of Past and Future

PART III – Displaying Difficult Pasts
5 "Inspiration Lives Here": Struggle, Martyrdom and Redemption in Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights
6 The Sõn Mỹ Memorial and Museum: A Continuous Memorial Service to Remember and Bear Witness to the 1968 Mỹ Lai Massacre
7 Memory as Persuasion: Historical Discourse and Moral Messages at Peru’s Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion

PART IV – Resistance through Memory
8 Mexico City’s Memorial to the Victims of Violence and the Facade of Participation -
9 Narratives of Ethnic and Political Conflict in Burundian Sites of Persuasion -

Bibliography

Index