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Mediating memory in the museum : trauma, empathy, nostalgia / Silke Arnold-de Simine Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Macmillan memory studiesPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230368867
  • 9780230368866
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069 23
LOC classification:
  • AM7 .A75 2013
Contents:
Part I. Museum -- Memory -- Medium -- 1. A New Type of Museum? -- 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis -- 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? -- 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering -- 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' -- 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum -- 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites -- -- Part II. The deaths of others: representing trauma in war museums -- 8. Sites of Trauma -- 9. Icons of Trauma -- -- Part III. Screen memories and the 'moving' image: empathy and projection in ism, liverpool, and iwm north, manchester -- 10. The Politics of Empathy -- 11. Testimonial Video Installation -- 12. Middle Passage Installation -- 13. The Big Picture in IWM North -- 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy -- -- Part IV. The paradoxes of nostalgia in museums and heritage sites -- 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford -- 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: -- 18. Folgate Street and -- 19. Princelet Street -- 17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace -- 18. Ostalgie -- Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum -- -- Part V. Uncanny objects, uncanny technologies -- 19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the Museum.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Museum -- Memory -- Medium -- 1. A New Type of Museum? -- 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis -- 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? -- 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering -- 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' -- 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum -- 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites -- -- Part II. The deaths of others: representing trauma in war museums -- 8. Sites of Trauma -- 9. Icons of Trauma -- -- Part III. Screen memories and the 'moving' image: empathy and projection in ism, liverpool, and iwm north, manchester -- 10. The Politics of Empathy -- 11. Testimonial Video Installation -- 12. Middle Passage Installation -- 13. The Big Picture in IWM North -- 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy -- -- Part IV. The paradoxes of nostalgia in museums and heritage sites -- 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford -- 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: -- 18. Folgate Street and -- 19. Princelet Street -- 17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace -- 18. Ostalgie -- Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum -- -- Part V. Uncanny objects, uncanny technologies -- 19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the Museum.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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