ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Title
Questioning Traumatic Heritages and Spaces of Memory
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chapter 1|16 pages

Constant Consensus Building

Title
Art and Conflict in the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory
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chapter 2|21 pages

Why Matter Matters

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Doris Salcedo's Material Memorial Movements
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chapter 3|19 pages

Trauma and Allegory

Title
Truthfulness in Fact and Fiction and Making a Private Archive Productive
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chapter 4|18 pages

Hypermnesia and Amnesia

Title
Remembering (with) the Body and Post-Conflict Memorials and Architectures
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chapter 6|19 pages

“Adapt or Resist?”

Title
Narratives of Implication and Perpetration in the Verzetsmuseum in Amsterdam
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chapter 8|21 pages

Memory, Art and Intergenerational Transmission

Title
Artistic Practices with Young People in Memory Sites in Argentina
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chapter 9|18 pages

Representing the Trauma of Colonialism in Museum Exhibitions

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Cape Coast Castle and the International Slavery Museum
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chapter 11|16 pages

Entangled Memories of Colonialism and Antisemitism

Title
The Scandal of Taring Padi's “People's Justice” at Documenta 15 (2022)
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chapter 12|9 pages

Objects Despite Everything

Title
Testimonial Objects Between Memory and Trauma
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