Questioning Traumatic Heritage Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through spa...

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Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2024
SeriesHeritage and Memory Studies
Subjects
appropriation and commodification
General and world history
History
History and Archaeology
History: theory and methods
justice and reconciliation
museualisation
politics of representation and identity
thema EDItEUR
traumatic heritages and memories of conflict
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Summary:This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of actions might be taken both to improve knowledge of the past and to serve as an opening to a discussion of current social issues.
ISBN:9789463726856
9463726853
DOI:10.5117/9789463726856