Museums and Mass Violence

Dr. Paul Morrow is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Amy Sodaro is Professor of Sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, USA. Dr. Leora Kahn is the executive director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice,a non profit that uses visual storytelling for social change.

List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; I. Mobilizing Memory in the Wake of Atrocity – 1. Remembering and Prosecuting Atrocities in Argentina: The ESMA Memory Museum; 2 Recovering Silenced Pasts: Representation of Racial Violence in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising; 3. Promise and Challenges of Digital Memorialization in Museums; 4. Difficult Knowledge as Bequest: Implementing the “Terrible Gift” in Exhibition at the Former Shingwauk Indian Residential School; II. Designing Exhibitions of Difficult Knowledge – 5.“You’d Have to See It to Believe It”: Commodifying Trauma at a Museum Near You; 6. Designing “Difficult” Exhibitions: Strategic Design for Representing Testimonies of Rrauma; 7. Future Foundations: Designing Around Sites of Trauma and Resilience; 8.Perils of Working with an Inconvenient Truth: Exhibiting Rwandan Hutu Rescuers; III. Encountering Violence and Nonviolence in Museum Collections – 9. “I remember her”: Challenging and Reclaiming Archival Spaces through the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Karine Duhamel, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Canada; 10. Silence or Bravery: Swedish Museums Facing Contemporary Mass Atrocities in China and Myanmar; 11. Picture This: Social Memory and the Tuol Sleng Photographs in Museum, Commercial, and Virtual Spaces; 12. From War Materiel to Peace Pathways: Changing Visions for Global Peace Museums; Afterword; Index.