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Title

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

Author

Arnold-de Simine, Silke.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

x, 239 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Uniform Title

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.

Subject

• Museums > Philosophy
• Museums > Historiography
• Memory > History
• Museums > Social aspects
• Museum techniques
• ART / Museum Studies
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- List of FiguresGlossaryAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1PARTI: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM 1. A New Type of Museum?2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'?4. Media Frameworks of Remembering5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing'6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage SitesPARTII: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS8. Sites of Trauma9.Icons of TraumaPART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER10. The Politics of Empathy11. Testimonial Video Installation12. Middle Passage Installation13. The Big Picture in IWM North14. Guilt, Grief and EmpathyPART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace18. Ostalgie -- Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the MuseumPART V: UNCANNY OBJECTS, UNCANNY TECHNOLOGIES19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the MuseumConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

ISBN

• 9780230368866 (hardback)
• 0230368867 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2013042152
• 99957196670

OCLC

• ocn856053051
• SCSB-9624921

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Columbia University Libraries