Mediating memory in the museum : trauma, empathy, nostalgia

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Label

Mediating memory in the museum : trauma, empathy, nostalgia

Title remainder

trauma, empathy, nostalgia

Statement of responsibility

Silke Arnold-de Simine, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Creator

• Arnold-de Simine, Silke

Subject

• Museum techniques
• Museums -- Historiography
• Memory -- History
• Museums -- Social aspects
• Museums -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

"Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research which is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures. By looking at a range of museums in Germany, Britain, France and Belgium, which address a diverse spectrum of topics such as migration, difficult and dark heritage, war, slavery and the GDR, Arnold-de Simine outlines the paradigm shifts in exhibiting practices associated with the transformation of traditional history museums and heritage sites into 'spaces of memory' over the past thirty years. She probes the political and ethical claims of new museums and maps the relevance of key concepts such as 'vicarious trauma', 'secondary witnessing', 'empathic unsettlement', 'prosthetic memory' and 'reflective nostalgia' in the museum landscape"--

Member of

• Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

069.094

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies