Situating museums for peace : in search of history, memory, and change / Joyce Apsel -- Understanding "museums for peace" / Clive Barrett -- Museums for peace and reconciliation in East Asia / Kazuyo Yamane and Clive Barrett -- The Africanized peace museum movement and the significance of cultural heritage / Kimberly Baker and Munuve Mutisya -- Gandhi and peace in the museums of the world / Elisabetta Colagrossi -- How museums for peace depict the technology of war and opposition to it / Clive Barrett -- Narrating the military sexual enslavement system : museums caught in the crossfire / Jane Joo Hyeon Lee and Roy Tamashiro -- Japanese war memory : ongoing challenges of remembering and forgetting / Satoko Oka Norimatsu -- Witnessing, requiem, reconciliation : toward a model for curating extreme violence at museums for peace / Roy Tamashiro -- Concluding voices / Joyce Apsel, Clive Barrett and Roy Tamashiro.

"Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the multiple, often conflicting and entangled representations and goals at diverse peace museums and other sites around the world. Hailing from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds, the contributing authors explore what sort of messages museums for peace are promoting, teaching and propagating, and what messages they are rejecting and opposing, suppressing and censoring. Investigating how institutions interact with political and cultural forces, the volume demonstrates that some museums resist authoritative tropes to reveal silenced histories, including peace histories, while others reinforce hegemonic narratives. Several contributions to the book reveal how the design of space, the choices to include or exclude artifacts, the presentation, and 'performativity' support or detract from museums' vision and mission. Authors also consider the value of museums for peace for the health and well-being of humanity and the environment. Museums for Peace will appeal to academics and students in museum studies, heritage studies, peace studies, memory studies, social justice and human rights. Those working in cultural studies and trauma studies will also find this volume valuable"-- Provided by publisher.

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