Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums

ISBN-13: 9783110787979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 250 str.

Katrin Antweiler

Recenzje

This book is a tour de force critique of the ways in which in today's world memory has been institutionalized, instrumentalized, and optimized to neo-liberal effects. Antweiler clearly demonstrates that memory has emerged as a key technique of power and governance. Anyone in doubt about how our dominant cultural patterns of remembrance and commemoration produce political rationalities, shape norms of conduct, and influence cultural policy, should reach for this brilliant and masterful text.
(Magdalena Zolkos, University of Jyväskylä)

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Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums offers an original view on the relationship between memory and politics by introducing the Foucauldian concept of governmentality to the field of memory studies. Through the study of three museums in Germany, Canada and South Africa, Katrin Antweiler redefines the nexus between Human Rights and memory as a technology of the self and, in so doing, opens a new path for understanding the nature of the impact of the transmission of violent pasts in contemporary societies.
(Sarah Gensburger, French National Center for Scientific Research)

O autorze

Katrin Antweiler.