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Curating Human Rights : Displaying, Combating and Obscuring Human Rights Violations in Museums / Robin Ostow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostow, Robin, author.
- Series:
- Rethinking Memory, Representation and Human Rights.
- Rethinking Memory, Representation and Human Rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Exhibitions.
- Human rights.
- Social justice--Exhibitions.
- Social justice.
- Museum techniques.
- Curatorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Robin Ostow is affiliated with the Sociology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on national museums, Jewish museums, immigration museums and human rights museums in Europe, the Americas and Australia. Most recently, her work has focused on these museums' displays and their relations with the communities around them.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: human rights and the museums that display them; 2. Displaying the transatlantic slave trade: from cultural nationalism to universal human rights on the West Coast of Africa. The Maison des Esclaves, Gorée Island, Senegal 1966-2023; 3. Reimagining citizenship and human rights in a museum of land restitution: District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; 4. The Museum as a laboratory for a human rights-based future: The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK; 5. From containing memories of past violence to supporting a human rights-based revolution: The Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile: 2006 - 2023; 6. Corporate citizenship and musealizing human rights: Coca-Cola and the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, US; 7. Decolonization and Musealizing Human Rights on the Canadian Prairie: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and The Museum for Canadian Human Rights Violations 2003 - 2023; 8. Human Rights Museums: Their contributions and achievements in promoting human rights. Their limitations and their challenges in the coming years
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed November 13, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781032660783
- 1032660783
- 9781040193877
- 1040193870
- Publisher Number:
- 40032783079
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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