Museums for Peace

Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the inspiring as well as conflicting representations and purposes of diverse museums for peace around the world.

Autorentext

Joyce Apsel is Clinical Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University (USA) and President, the Institute for Study of Genocide. She is author of Introducing Peace Museums (2016), and co-editor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion (2020); Genocide Matters (2014) and Museums for Peace: Transforming Cultures (2012).

Clive Barrett is Chair of Trustees of The Peace Museum, Bradford (UK) with 30 years of engagement with peace museums. His publications include Subversive Peacemakers (2014), and contributions to A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire (2020) and the Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace (2022).

Roy Tamashiro is Professor Emeritus in Multidisciplinary Studies at Webster University (USA). His recent publications include contributed chapters to Building Positive Peace (2023); Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies (2022); Peace Journeys (2019); Museums and Sites of Persuasion (2019); and Pilgrimage as Transformative Process (2018).

Klappentext

Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the inspiring as well as conflicting representations and purposes of diverse museums for peace around the world.

Inhalt

Section 1. Setting the Scene; 1. Situating Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change; 2. Understanding Museums for Peace; Section 2. The Praxis of Museums for Peace; 3. Museums for Peace and Reconciliation in East Asia;4. The Africanized Peace Museum Movement and the Significance of Cultural Heritage; 5. Gandhi and Peace in the Museums of the World; 6. How Museums for Peace Depict the Technology of War and Opposition to It; Section 3. The Identification and Portrayal of Violence in Museums for Peace;7. Narrating the Military Sexual Enslavement System: Museums Caught in the Crossfire; 8. Japanese War Memory: Ongoing Challenges of Remembering and Forgetting; 9. Witnessing, Requiem, Reconciliation: Toward a Model for Curating Extreme Violence at Museums for Peace; Section 4. The Future of Museums for Peace;10. Concluding Voices